Václav Blažek
{{short description|Czech linguist}}
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| birth_date = {{b-da|23 April 1959}}
| birth_place = Sokolov, Czechoslovakia
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| nationality = Czech
| occupation = Linguist
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| workplaces = Masaryk University and University of West Bohemia
| main_interests = Historical linguistics
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Václav Blažek (born 23 April 1959) is a Czech historical linguist. He is a professor at Masaryk University in Brno and also teaches at the University of West Bohemia in Plzeň.
His major interests include Indo-European languages, Uralic languages, Altaic languages, Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) languages, Nostratic languages, Dené–Caucasian languages, and mathematical linguistics (lexicostatistics and glottochronology).
In his book Numerals, Blažek discusses words for numerals in several language families of Eurasia and Africa (Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, Kartvelian, Egyptian, Berber, Nubian, and Saharan), with briefer discussions of numerals in other languages around the world.
References
- {{cite journal|year=1989|title=Lexica Nostratica: Addenda et Corrigenda I|journal=Archiv Orientální
|volume=57|issue=3|pages=201–210}}
- {{cite journal|year=1990|title=Lexica Nostratica: Addenda et Corrigenda II|journal=Archiv Orientální|volume=58|issue=3|pages=205–218}}
- {{cite journal|year=1995|author=(with John D. Bengtson)|title=Lexica Dene–Caucasica|journal=Central Asiatic Journal|volume=39|issue=1|pages=11–50}}
- {{cite journal|year=1995|author=(with John D. Bengtson)|title=Lexica Dene–Caucasica|journal=Central Asiatic Journal|volume=39|issue=2|pages=161–164}}
- {{cite book|year=1999|title=Numerals: Comparative-etymological analyses of numerical systems and their implications|location=Brno|publisher=Masarykova Univerzita|isbn=9788021020702 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iUcnAQAAIAAJ}}
- {{cite journal|year=2000|author=(with John D. Bengtson)|title=Lexical Parallels Between Ainu and Austric, and Their Implications|journal=Archiv Orientální|volume=68|pages=237–258}}
- {{cite journal|year=2003|title=Lexica Nostratica Addenda|journal=Mother Tongue|issue=8|pages=11–22}}
- {{cite web|year=2005|url=http://www.phil.muni.cz/linguistica/art/blazek/bla-003.pdf|title=On the internal classification of Indo-European languages: survey}}
External links
- [https://muni.academia.edu/VáclavBlažek Selection of Articles by Václav Blažek]
- [https://is.muni.cz/osoba/905#publikace Václav Blažek Bibliography]
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Category:Linguists from the Czech Republic
Category:Czech educational theorists
Category:Linguists of Nostratic languages
Category:Linguists of Dené–Caucasian languages
Category:Academic staff of Masaryk University