Ada Vidovič Muha (born March 8, 1940) is a Slovene

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

. She is an

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professor and has published several books on Slovene linguistics.

Life

Muha was born in

Pivka Pivka (, , ) is a small town in Slovenia in the Pivka Basin in the Karst region. It is the seat of the Municipality of Pivka. It belongs to the traditional region of Inner Carniola. Name Pivka was first mentioned in 1300 as ''villa Sancti Petri ...

in 1940. In 1963 she received a bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Arts in

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after studying Slovene and

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literature. After graduation, she studied at

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. She received her master's degree from the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana in 1979 with a thesis on the syntactic role of adjectives, and she became an assistant professor. In 1984 she received a doctorate in linguistics. She taught at the Fran Ramovš Institute and then later at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. In 2000, she published the reference book ''Slovensko leksikalno pomenoslovje: govorica slovarja'' on the semantics of Slovenian.

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