Pavle Ivić ( sr-cyr, Павле Ивић, ; 1 December 1924 – 19 September 1999) was a Serbian South Slavic

dialectologist Dialectology (from Greek , ''dialektos'', "talk, dialect"; and , ''-logia'') is the scientific study of linguistic dialect, a sub-field of sociolinguistics. It studies variations in language based primarily on geographic distribution and their assoc ...

and

phonologist Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages or dialects systematically organize their sounds or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs. The term can also refer specifically to the sound or sign system of a ...

Biography

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).

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, 1971;'' * ''Word and sentence prosody in Serbocroatian, by Ilse Lehiste and Pavle Ivić.

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, Mass.:

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Press, 1986.'' He edited many periodicals and scholarly series, and was an important figure in the All-Slavic Linguistic Atlas project. He was an authority on the standardization of the

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. He frequently lectured in the

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and other countries, and was an Honorary Member of the

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. A member of the

Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Serbica, sr-Cyr, Српска академија наука и уметности, САНУ, Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, SANU) is a national academy and the ...

, he took part in the polemics accompanying the breakdown of 1945-1991 Yugoslavia. He was as signatory of the 1986

Memorandum of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts The Memorandum of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, known simply as the SANU Memorandum ( sr-cyr, Меморандум САНУ), was a draft document produced by a 16-member committee of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) from ...

. He was married to Milka Ivić (1923-2011), a Slavic syntactician and professor.

External links

'History of Serb Culture' Online Book
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ivic, Pavle 1924 births 1999 deaths Writers from Belgrade Linguists from Serbia Serbian scientists Slavists Phonologists Eastern Orthodox Christians from Serbia Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts 20th-century linguists