Raimo Aulis Anttila

Raimo Aulis Anttila
Raimo Aulis Anttila
Born	1935; Finland
Nationality	Finnish
Academic work
Discipline	Comparative Linguistics
Institutions	University of Helsinki; University of California, Los Angeles;
Main interests	Indo-European linguistics;

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.

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

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