Carlo Salvioni

Carlo Salvioni (born March 3, 1858 in Bellinzona , † October 20, 1920 in Milan ) was a Swiss Romance philologist and dialectologist .

Life

Salvioni attended high school in Lugano . He began studying medicine in Basel, but then felt drawn to Jules Cornu's philology and dialectology as a listener and went to Leipzig to study with the young grammarians around Karl Brugmann . There he received his doctorate in 1884 with Fonetica del dialetto moderno della città di Milano (Rome 1884, Sala Bolognese 1979), the first ever study of a metropolitan dialect . Salvioni was a private lecturer in Turin from 1885 to 1889, a lecturer in Milan from 1889 to 1890, from 1890 to 1902 as professor of the comparative linguistic history of the classical and neo-Latin languages ​​at the University of Pavia and from 1902 as successor to Graziadio Ascoli professor of linguistics at the Accademia scientifico-letteraria in Milan . From 1901 he headed the journal Archivio glottologico italiano founded by Ascoli . In 1907 he started the large company of the Vocabolario dei dialetti della Svizzera italiana , a vocabulary of the Ticino dialects (so far seven complete volumes; the eighth will be published).

Works

• Carlo Salvioni: Gli scritti linguistici. Edited by Michele Loporcaro, Romano Broggini, Lorenza Pescia and Paola Vecchio. 5 volumes. Bellinzona 2008.

literature

• Romano Broggini: Carlo Salvioni 1858–1920. Bellinzona 1958.
• Anne-Marguerite Fryba-Reber: Les romanistes suisses et Gaston Paris. In: Le Moyen Age de Gaston Paris. Edited by Michel Zink. Paris 2004, pp. 211–242, here p. 217.
• Michele Loporcaro: Carlo Salvioni. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 24, 2012 .
• Clemente Merlo in: L'Italia dialettale 22, 1958, pp. 185-208.
• Max Pfister : Carlo Salvioni. In: Les linguistes suisses et la variation linguistique. Edited by Jakob Wüest. Basel 1997, pp. 83-94.