Mario Alinei is Professor Emeritus at the University of Utrecht, where he taught from 1959 to 1987.
Founder and editor of Quaderni di semantica review (http://comandes.uji.es/Revistes/PaginaRevista.asp?Valor=741&Many=2004).
Until recently he was president of Atlas Linguarum Europae at UNESCO (http://www.uni-bamberg.de/~ba4es1/ale-e.html).
Some of his main linguistical contributions which were instrumental in creating the Paleolithic Continuity Theory were those about the tendency toward conservation of languages as oposed to the theories of "biological laws" of linguistic change and the method of lexical self-dating. The following external links depict Alinei's general concept of continuity and the points of his criticism toward traditional historical linguistics.
External links
General concept of continuity (http://www.continuitas.com/interdisciplinary.pdf)
Conservation and change of languages (http://www.continuitas.com/conservation_change.pdf)
The problem of dating in linguistics (http://www.continuitas.com/problem_dating.pdf)
Alinei, Mario (2003b), Interdisciplinary and linguistic evidence for Palaeolithic continuity of Indo-European, Uralic and Altaic populations in Eurasia, in «Quaderni di Semantica» 24,2.
Alinei, Mario (fc.a), Continuity from Paleolithic of Indo-European and Uralic populations in Europe : the convergence of linguistic and archaeological frontiers, in Proceedings of the XIVth Congress of the UISPP (Liège: 2-8/9/2001), BAR International Series.
Alinei, Mario (fc.b), Interdisciplinary and linguistic evidence for Palaeolithic continuity of Indo-European, Uralic and Altaic populations in Eurasia, with an excursus on Slavic ethnogenesis, in Proceedings of Kobarid conference (2003).
MarioAlinei is Professor Emeritus at the University of Utrecht, where he taught from 1959 to 1987.
Some of his main linguistical contributions, which were instrumental in creating the Paleolithic Continuity Theory, regarded tendencies towards the conservation of languages, as opposed to the theories of "biological laws" of linguistic change and the method of lexical self-dating.
The following external links illustrate Alinei's general concept of continuity and the points of his criticism toward traditional historical linguistics.
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