Eugenio Coşeriu was a linguist

Linguistics

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 that specialized in Romance languages

Romance languages

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 at the University of Tübingen, author of over 50 books, honorary member of the Romanian Academy

Romanian Academy

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Biography

Eugenio Coşeriu was born on July 27, 1921 in Mihăileni, Rîşcani

Mihăileni, Rîşcani

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, a small Romania

Romania

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n town that today lies in the Republic of Moldova. He attended high school in Bălţi

Balti

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, where Vadim Pirogan

Vadim Pirogan

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 and Sergiu Grossu

Sergiu Grossu

Sergiu Grossu was a writer and theologian from Romania.-Biography:Sergiu Grossu was born to Ion and Maria Grossu on November 14, 1920 in Cubolta. In 1927, his family moved to Bălţi, where he was a classmate of Eugen Coşeriu. He published in Viaţa Basarabiei...

 were his classmates. After his studies at the University of Iaşi, he went to Italy in 1940 with a scholarship of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura

Istituto Italiano di Cultura

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 and continued to study in Rome

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, where he earned his PhD in 1944 with a dissertation about the influence of the Chanson de geste

Chanson de geste

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 on the folk poetry of the southern Slavic peoples.

Eugenio Coşeriu was active at the University of the Republic, Uruguay

University of the Republic, Uruguay

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 as Professor of General and Indo-European Linguistics, and then at the University of Tübingen, Germany

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Honours

• Biblioteca Municipală "Eugeniu Coşeriu", Bălţi
  Balti
  Balti can refer to:* Balti language, a language spoken in Baltistan in Pakistan and Ladakh in Kashmir* Balti people, Muslims of Ladakhi/Tibetan origin from Baltistan in Pakistan and Ladakh in Kashmir...
  
  
• Colocviul Internaţional de Ştiinţe ale Limbajului "Eugeniu Coşeriu"
• "Eugen Coşeriu" High School Mihăileni
  Mihăileni, Rîşcani
  Mihăileni is a commune in Rîşcani district, Moldova. It is composed of a single village, Mihăileni....
  
  

Selected works

Eugeniu Coşeriu, Teoria del lenguaje y linguistica general, Madrid, 1973 Eugeniu Coşeriu, Sincronia, diacronia e historia, Madrid, 1973 Eugeniu Coşeriu, Principos de semantica estructural, Madrid, 1978. Eugeniu Coşeriu, El hombre y su lenguaje, Madrid, 1977. Eugeniu Coşeriu, Tradicion y novedad en la ciencia del languaje, Madrid, 1977. Eugeniu Coşeriu, Gramatica, semantica universales,, Madrid, 1978. Eugeniu Coşeriu, Lecţii de lingvistică generală, Chişinău, ARC Publishing House, 2000. Eugeniu Coşeriu, "Limbaj şi politică", in Revista de lingvistică şi ştiinţă literară, 5/1996. Eugeniu Coşeriu, „Latinitatea orientală”, in Limba Română este patria mea. Studii. Comunicări. Documente, Chişinău, 1996, p. 15-31, Eugeniu Coşeriu, „Unitatea limbii române - planuri şi criterii”. Ibidem. p. 205-121. Eugeniu Coşeriu and Horst Geckeler. Trends in structural semantics. (Tübinger Beiträge zur Linguistik, 158). Tübingen: Narr. 1981.

External links

• Coseriu Archives at the University of Tübingen
• Evocare Eugeniu Coşeriu
• Liceul Teoretic „Ion Creangă” din Bălți