Alfredo Trombetti

Portrait of Alfredo Trombetti

Alfredo Trombetti (January 16, 1866 in Bologna July 5, 1929 in Venice), was an Italian linguist active in the early 20th century.

Career overview

Trombetti was a professor at the University of Bologna. He was a member of the Italian Academy.

He is best known as an advocate of the doctrine of monogenesis, according to which all of the world's languages go back to a single common ancestral language. His arguments for monogenesis were first presented in his book L'unità d'origine del linguaggio, published in 1905. This doctrine is still extremely controversial.

A selection of works by Alfredo Trombetti

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