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

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and phonologist.

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.: MIT 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 U.S. and other countries, and was an Honorary Member of the

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. A member of the

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, 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. 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