Manuel Said Ali

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Manuel Said Ali (born October 21, 1861 in Petrópolis , † May 27, 1953 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian Romance scholar , Lusitanist and grammarian.

life and work

Ali, whose father was a Turk and his mother (as well as his wife) was German, started an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 14. He became a teacher of German, French, English and geography at the military academy, as well as at the later Colégio Pedro II . There he had students: Manuel Bandeira , Sousa da Silveira , Antenor Nascentes , Arthur Alexandre Moses (1886–1967) and Alfredo de Araújo Lopes da Costa (1885–1966). Capistrano de Abreu was one of his friends .

Due to the reception of the worldwide linguistic discussion of his time, Ali developed into an original Romanist and Lusitanist with considerable influence on the development of Lusitan studies.

Works

  • Vocabulario orthographico , Rio de Janeiro 1905
  • Nova grammatica alleman , Rio de Janeiro 1908
  • Dificuldades da Língua Portuguesa. Estudos e observações , Rio de Janeiro 1908 (numerous editions until 2008)
  • Lexeologia do Português Histórico , São Paulo 1921
  • Formação de Palavras e Sintaxe do Português Histórico , São Paulo 1923
  • Gramática Secundária da Língua Portuguesa , São Paulo 1923 (numerous editions)
  • Lingua portugueza. Meios de expressão e alterações semanticas , Rio de Janeiro 1930, 1971
  • Gramática histórica da língua portuguêsa , São Paulo 1931, 8th edition, 2001 (320 pages)
  • Versificação portuguesa , Rio de Janeiro 1948, 1999
  • Acentuação e versificação Latinas. Observações e estudos , Rio de Janeiro 1956
  • Investigações filológicas , ed. by Evanildo Bechara, Rio de Janeiro 1975, 2006

literature

  • Evanildo Bechara , A contribuição de M. Said Ali à Lingüística Portuguêsa , Porto Alegre 1970 (35 pages; the author had met Ali personally in 1943)
  • Edmilson Monteiro Lopes, Said Ali. Mestre de ontem e de hoje , Fortaleza 1978 (30 pages)
  • Anthony J. Naro, Portuguese in Brazil, in: Trends in Romance Linguistics and Philology 3, Den Haag 1982, pp. 413–462 (here: 418)
  • Maria Mercedes Saraiva Hackerott, Said Ali ea acentuação. Primórdios da linguística no Brasil, in: Estudos de Linguistica Galega 3, 2011, pp. 51-64

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personal data
SURNAME Ali, Manuel Said
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian Romanist, Lusitanist and grammarian
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Petrópolis
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1953
Place of death Rio de Janeiro