- Pavle Ivić
Professor Pavle Ivić (Serbian
Cyrillic : Павле Ивић) (December 1 ,1924 -September 19 ,1999 ) was a leadingSouth Slavic and general dialectologist and phonologist. Both his field work and his synthesizing studies were extensive and authoritative. A few of his best-known publications are:
* "Die serbokroatischen Dialekte, ihre Struktur und Entwicklung, Gravenhage, Mouton, 1958"
* "Srpski narod i njegov jezik (The Serbian People and Their Language). Belgrade, 1971;"
* "Word and sentence prosody in Serbocroatian, by Ilse Lehiste and Pavle Ivić.Cambridge , Mass.:MIT Press, 1986."He edited many periodicals and scholarly series, and was an important figure in the All-Slavic Linguistic Atlas project. He was one of the most respected authorities on the standardization of the
Serbian language . He frequently lectured in the U.S. and other countries, and was an Honorary Member of theLinguistic Society of America .A well-known intellectual and public figure in
Yugoslavia and member of theSerbian Academy of Sciences and Arts , he took part in the polemics accompanying the breakdown of 1945-1991 Yugoslavia.He was survived by his wife, Prof. Milka Ivić, a Slavic syntactician.
External links
* [http://www.rastko.org.yu/isk/index_e.html 'History of Serb Culture' Online Book]
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