Bonfante, Giuliano

Bonfante, Giuliano 

Born Aug. 6, 1904, in Milan. Italian linguist. Specialist in Romance, Indo-European, and general linguistics.

Bonfante has taught at the universities of Madrid, Geneva, Chicago, Princeton, and Wisconsin. One of the founders of the American journal of linguistics Word, Bonfante is a representative of the idealistic, neolinguistic approach to the study of languages that arose under the influence of V. Humboldt, B. Croce, H. Schuchardt, K. Vossler, and J. Gillieron.

WORKS

“Positsiia neolingvistiki.” In V. A. Zvegintsev, Khrestomatiia poistorii iazykoznaniia XIX i XX vekov. Moscow, 1956.
I dialetti indoeuropei. Naples, 1931.
“Los elementos populares en la lingua de Horacio.” In Emerita: Boletín de linguística y filología clásica, vols. 4–5. Madrid, 1936–37.
Semantics. Princeton, 1950.
Corso di glottologia. Turin, 1961.

REFERENCE

Zvegintsev, V. A. “Kritika mladogrammaticheskogo napravleniia.” In Khrestomatiia po istorii iazykoznaniia XIX i XX vekov, part 2. Moscow, 1956.