Raimo Aulis Anttila

Raimo Aulis Anttila (born 1935) is a Finnish linguist who is Professor Emeritus of Indo-European Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Biography[]

Raimo Aulis Anttila was born in Finland in 1935. He was Professor of Comparative Linguistics at the University of Helsinki from 1971 to 1976. He was appointed Professor of Indo-European Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1976. Anttila is also an authority on Finno-Ugric languages. Along with Marija Gimbutas and Edgar C. Polomé and Roger Pearson, Anttila was a co-founder of the Journal of Indo-European Studies, and was a member of its Editorial Committee in the 1970s. Anttila was elected a Corresponding Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters in 1995. Anttila has now retired from UCLA as Professor Emeritus.

Selected works[]

• Field theory of meaning and semantic change., 1992
• Change and metatheory at the beginning of the 1990s: the primacy of history, 1993
• Pattern explanation and etymology: collateral evidence and Estonian kolle ‘hearth’, and related words., 1995

Sources[]

• "Raimo Anttila". University of California, Los Angeles. Retrieved September 8, 2020.

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