Zuzanna Topolińska (born 21 January 1931) is a Polish linguist, Slavist and Macedonist.

Biography

Zuzanna Topolińska was born in

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

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

Polish studies Polish studies, Polish philology or Polonistics (, 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. The history of Polish ...

at the

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(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. Topolińska was a visiting professor at the

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(1967) and

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(1988) . From 1975 she was 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 () is an academic institution in North Macedonia. History The Academy of Sciences and Arts was established by the Socialist Republic of Macedonia's assembly on 23 February 1967 as the highest scientifi ...

, as well as at the

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). 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 The University of Wrocław (, UWr; ) is a public research university in Wrocław, Poland. It is the largest institution of higher learning in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, with over 100,000 graduates since 1945, including some 1,900 researcher ...

(2016)

Publications

Author of more than 500 publications and over 20 books in the fields of Slavic linguistics,

Macedonian Macedonian most often refers to someone or something from or related to Macedonia. Macedonian(s) may refer to: People Modern * Macedonians (ethnic group), a nation and a South Slavic ethnic group primarily associated with North Macedonia * Mac ...

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

External links

*http://manu.edu.mk/teams/d-r-zuzana-topolinska/
Current list of publications
{{DEFAULTSORT:Topolinska, Zuzanna 1931 births Living people Linguists of Slavic languages Macedonists 20th-century Polish linguists