Nationality Finnish Occupation Linguist | Name Pentti Aalto Died November 30, 1998 | |
Born July 22, 1917 ( 1917-07-22 ) Books Classical studies in Finland, 1828-1918, Modern language studies in Finland, 1828-1918 | ||
Pentti Aalto (July 22, 1917 – November 30, 1998) was a Finnish linguist who was the University of Helsinki Docent of Comparative Linguistics 1958–1980. Aalto was a student of G. J. Ramstedt. He defended his doctoral dissertation in 1949 in Helsinki.
Aalto published on the Latin gerundive, the Latin gerund, the Greek infinitive, the history of the Finnish study of Oriental, classical, and modern languages. He edited Ramstedt's comparative Altaic grammar and completed an edition of the Mongolian version of the Pan̂carakṣā and a collection of Latin sources of Northeast Asian peoples.
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