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Mario Alinei
Mario Alinei is Professor Emeritus at the University of Utrecht, where he taught from 1959 to 1987.
Founder and editor of Quaderni di semantica review.
Until recently he was president of Atlas Linguarum Europae at UNESCO.
Some of his main linguistical contributions which were instrumental in creating the Paleolithic Continuity Theory were those about the tendency toward conservation of languages as oposed to the theories of "biological laws" of linguistic change and the method of lexical self-dating. The following external links depict Alinei's general concept of continuity and the points of his criticism toward traditional historical linguistics.
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