Published 2016
“…As told above, this work is aimed at the 'reconstruction' of a toponymic 'macro-area' (or 'micro-area', depending on the points of view) related to the root *alb- and to the 'semantic steps' linked to the same root, with regard, especially, to the Northern Italy (and, secondarily, to Europe), developing – remaining in the specific case of pre-Latin (pre-Indo-European, proto-Indo-European, and Indo-European) Toponymy – this onomastic aspect of the New Convergence Theory (NCT) in relationship to the different approaches of the Indo-European Linguistics (the Indo-European / Glottological, the pre-Indo-European, the pan-Indo-European, the pan-Semitic, the Paleolithic Continuity Paradigm / Paleolithic Continuity Theory / Teoria della Continuità, the Vasconic Substratum Theory, the
Glottalic Theory, for example). The New Convergence Theory (NCT), indeed, is mainly aimed at developing a potentially 'homogeneous' vision among the different above mentioned approaches in the field of Indo-European Linguistics, without emphasizing any one in particular, but trying to outline an 'all-embracing' reconstruction that takes into account each of the scientific achievements of the other considered Theories. …”
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