Lino Franceschini

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Lino Franceschini (born November 28, 1941 in Bedizzole , Province of Brescia , Italy , † April 26, 2019 in Olpe ) was an Italian linguist.

Life

Lino Franceschini came to Germany in 1965 without any language skills and worked in a steel mill in Mülheim an der Ruhr . After four years at the Episcopal Evening High School in Essen , he was the first guest worker to receive his Abitur in 1970 . With a scholarship from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , he studied economics at the Ruhr University in Bochum . Since his marriage he lived in Olpe. He came to etymology and linguistics by researching the field and river names of his home village in Lombardy. He has authored numerous scientific books.

The human language

Lino Franceschini traced the development of language intensively with the conclusion that human language is based on very simple processes. In his research, using the ancient European language groups and the example of toponomastics , he traces the Indo-European language development back to simple processes from which contemporary languages ​​have developed in the constant interaction of chance and necessity. The engine of this process as a primordial phenomenon is the image of the growth and development of nature, which inspires people to form the first words and differentiates itself into ever more ideas. At the beginning, the opposites are also expressed by one and the same term, thus creating a complex structure of diverse meanings. Not the reconstruction of a common basic language and its grammar, but the necessity of communication about elementary processes forms the basis for the development of rules that are standardized over time from different dialects into written cultural languages.

In his works, the development of the word is reconstructed and shows how concepts from loose, oral, traditional forms are transformed into fixed structures through writing and form the historical languages ​​that we know today. Etymology is not being redefined as the primary product of a semantic process, but as a further development of linguistic archetypes and possible combinations.

The place names, as the oldest evidence of human language, confirm this process. With his work Toponomastik - An Introduction to Place Name Research, Lino Franceschini lays the foundation for an expandable research of the toponomastics of Europe.

The theory of Lino Franceschini has been confirmed by the linguist Kerstin Feuge, who, independently of the author , came to the same conclusion with the work On the Origin of Languages ​​- The Evolutionary Relevance of Curvature , Lamberti Verlag, Oldenburg 2003.

For the purpose of proof, Kerstin Feuge has correlated two of the most extensive language families in the world, the Niger-Congo languages and the Austronesian languages , and subjected them to a thorough analysis.

The concept of swelling as a fundamental structure of language is not just an entirely new scientific approach. Franceschini's theory seems to be valid for the origin of all languages ​​in the world. However, it is not a matter of the so-called proto-world propagated by various researchers , a hypothetical original language from which all language families known today descend, but rather a single common basic concept that shaped the development of all languages.

Works

  • Lino Franceschini: Origin, development and basic building blocks of human language: presented using the Indo-European language groups . Franceschini & Kampmann, Olpe 1984.
  • Lino Franceschini: Origin, development and basic building blocks of human language: depicted using the ancient European language groups. With an introduction to place name research . Verlag Franceschini & Vosshagen, Olpe 2003, ISBN 3-00-011091-7 .
  • Lino Franceschini: The human language: origin and development . epubli GmbH, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-7375-7477-8 .
  • Lino Franceschini: Toponomastics - An introduction to place name research . epubli GmbH, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-7375-8720-4 .

literature

  • Kerstin Feuge: About the origin of languages ​​- the evolutionary relevance of arching. Lamberti Verlag, Oldenburg 2003, ISBN 3-9809116-1-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Commemorative page of Christa Franceschini-Vosshagen | WAZ.Trauer.de. Retrieved on July 13, 2019 (German).
  2. ^ Result for 'au: Franceschini, Lino' [WorldCat.org]. Retrieved February 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Franceschini, Lino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian linguist
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Bedizzole , Province of Brescia , Italy
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 2019
Place of death Olpe