Eduardo Blasco Ferrer (Barcelona, 1956 – Bastia, 12 January 2017) was a Spanish-Italian linguist and a professor at the University of Cagliari, Sardinia. He is best known as the author of several studies about the Paleo-Sardinian and Sardinian language.
Biography He graduated in 1981 with a degree in Romance linguistics from the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, a subject in which he earned a Doctor of Philosophy with Heinrich Kuen, and landed at the University of Cagliari as a lecturer in the Catalan language in the Faculty of Education.
He was then a lecturer at the universities of Sassari, Bonn, Florence, and Munich; since 1993 he has been back in Cagliari, initially as a lecturer in the history of the Italian language, and since 1996 as a lecturer in Sardinian linguistics.
He worked more on the study and teaching of the Sardinian language, but also turned his attention to Catalan, Spanish, Ladin and Italian.
Books Grammatica storica del catalano e dei suoi dialetti con speciale riguardo all'algherese. Tübingen: G. Narr, c1984. La lingua sarda contemporanea : grammatica del logudorese e del campidanese : norma e varietà dell'uso : sintesi storica. Cagliari : Della Torre, c1986. Storia linguistica della Sardegna. Tübingen : Niemeyer, 1984. Le parlate dell'alta Ogliastra : analisi dialettologica : saggio di storia linguistica e culturale. Cagliari : Edizioni Della Torre, 1988. Ello, ellus : grammatica sarda. Nuoro : Poliedro, c1994. La lingua nel tempo : variazione e cambiamento in latino, italiano e sardo. Cagliari : CUEC, 1995. Cagliari : CUEC, 1996. Pro domo : grammatica essenziale della lingua sarda. Cagliari : Condaghes, 1998. Italiano e tedesco : un confronto linguistico. Torino : Paravia scriptorium, c1999. Italiano, sardo e lingue moderne a scuola. Milano : F. Angeli, 2003. Storia della lingua sarda. Cagliari : CUEC, 2009. Paleosardo. Le radici linguistiche della Sardegna neolitica. Berlin : De Gruyter, 2010.
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