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

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. She is an

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professor who has many books published on the linguistics of Slovene.

Life

Muha was born in

Pivka Pivka (, german: St. Peter in Krain, it, San Pietro del Carso) 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 wa ...

in 1940. In 1963 she graduated from the Faculty of Arts in

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after studying Slovene and the

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in 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 on "the syntactic role of the adjective word" and she became an assistant Professor. In 1984 she gained a doctorate in linguistic sciences. She taught at the Fran Ramovš Institute and then later at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. She received her master's degree from the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana in 1979 on "the syntactic role of the adjective word". In 2000 she published a reference book, ''Slovensko leksikalno pomenoslovje: govorica slovarja'', on the semantic of Slovenian.

References

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