Zuzanna Topolińska (born January 21, 1931 in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

) - Polish linguist, Slavist, Macedonist.

Biography

Zuzanna Topolińska was born in

into an intellectual family. Her father was a historian, before the war he worked as a program director at

Polish Radio Polskie Radio Spółka Akcyjna (PR S.A.; English: Polish Radio) is Poland's national public-service radio broadcasting organization owned by the State Treasury of Poland. History Polskie Radio was founded on 18 August 1925 and began making ...

. She passed her high school diploma in 1948 at the Gymnasium of Królowej Jadwigi in Kielce. She took up

Polish studies Polish studies, or Polonistics ( pl, filologia polska, or ''polonistyka'') is the field of humanities that researches, documents and disseminates the Polish language and Polish literature in both historic and present-day forms. In the United State ...

at the

University of Łódź The University of Łódź (Polish: ''Uniwersytet Łódzki'', Latin: ''Universitas Lodziensis'') is a public research university founded in 1945 in Łódź, Poland, as a continuation of three higher education institutions functioning in Łódź in ...

(she planned to study directing at the Higher Theater School, under the condition of graduating from philology studies). Among its lecturers were Zdzisław Stieber, Tadeusz Kotarbiński and Stefania Skwarczyńska. She completed her M.A. Polish Philology in 1952, after which she started working at the State Publishing Institute. Thanks to the cooperation with Zdzisław Stieber, she joined the Dialectological Laboratory of the Polish Academy of Sciences, which he later became the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1959 she obtained a doctoral degree at the University of Warsaw (the supervisor was Zdzisław Stieber), and in 1964 she obtained her habilitation at the same university. In 1974 she was awarded the title of associate professor and in 1978 full professor. She was a visiting professor at the

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(1967) and

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(1988) . From 1975 she is a professor at the Institute of Polish Language of the Polish Academy of Sciences, from 1983 a member of the Warsaw Scientific Society, from 1991 - PAU, also a member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She researches in the field of phonology, time, syntax, Polish and Slavic dialectology, including: Polish-Pomeranian relations (1964), Kashubian (1980), Language, man, space (1999), Slavic languages in an ecolinguistic perspective (2003, together with Władysław Lubaś and Ivan Ohnheiser), a Polish-Macedonian and Macedonian-Polish dictionary (together with Božidar Widoeski and Włodzimierz Pianka). At the Institute of Polish Language of the Polish Academy of Sciences, she led the team that led to the publication of the collective Grammar of the Polish language vol. 1-2 (1983). For many years she has been living in Macedonia in Skopje (where she worked at the

Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts The Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( mk, Македонска Академија на Науките и Уметностите, МАНУ) is an academic institution in North Macedonia. History The Academy of Sciences and Arts was establ ...

, as well as at the

Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje The Saints Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje ( mk, Универзитет „Св. Кирил и Методиј“ во Скопје) is the oldest and largest public university in North Macedonia. It is named after the Byzantine Christia ...

). She obtained Macedonian citizenship; she is a member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences (MANU).

Awards

* Honorary Doctorate of the

(1997) * honorary doctorate of the

University of Wrocław , ''Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau'' (before 1945) , free_label = Specialty programs , free = , colors = Blue , website uni.wroc.pl The University of Wrocław ( pl, Uniwersytet Wrocławski, U ...

(2016)

Publications

Author of more than 500 publications and over 20 books in the fields of Slavic linguistics, Macedonian philology, slavistics, history. Author of the following books: *A historical phonology of the Kashubian dialects of Polish(1974) *Remarks on the slavic noun phrase (1981) *The Sociolinguistic situation of the Macedonian language (1998)

References

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External links

*http://manu.edu.mk/teams/d-r-zuzana-topolinska/ *http://manu.edu.mk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/З.ТОПОЛИЊСКА-БИБЛИОГРАФИЈА-1955–2020.21-СоњаВангел.pdf (current list of publications) 1931 births Slavists Macedonists Linguists from Poland 20th-century linguists Living people