Mato Pižurica (born 14 September 1942) is a

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n linguist and professor at the

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. Pižurica is best known as the chief editor of several official

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books for

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, and as the secretary of the Department of Language and Literature of

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. Pižurica was born in the village of Velje Duboko near

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and graduated in 1967 at the Faculty of Philosophy in

, and finished post graduate studies at the

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in 1973. He received his PhD in 1987 at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad. Pižurica is a member of the international committee of the '' Slavic Linguistic Atlas'', national committees of for the ''General Carpathian dialectal atlas'', committee for the ''Serbian dialectal atlas'', several committees of the

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(Committee for the standardization of the Serbian language, Committee for the dictionary of SANU, Committee for etymology, Committee for Onomastics), several editorial committees ( Jezik danas). Pižurica is a member of the Board of Directors of

, secretary of Department of Language and Literature of Matica srpska, and a Vice Dean for Education at the Faculty of philosophy in Novi Sad. He participated on numerous domestic and international conferences (onomastics, linguistic geography, lexicology etc.). Pižurica authored about hundred papers, treatises and reviews in the history of Serbian literary and spoken language,

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, standardology and

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. He edited

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's book ''

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dialects'' (''Srpskohrvatski dijalekti''; ''Celokupna dela'', vol. III).

Bibliography

* ''Govor okoline

a'',

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, ''Posebna izdanja'', ''knj. 12'',

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, 1981, p. 251 * ''Jezik Andrije Zmajevića'', CANU, ''osebna izdanja, knj. 22'', Titograd, 1989, p. 434 * ''Prilozi Pravopisu'', Matica srpska, Novi Sad, 1989, p. 127 (co-authored and co-edited, in Ekavian and Ijekavian editions) * ''Pravopis srpskoga jezika'', Matica srpska, Novi Sad, 1993, strp510 (as one of three authors, in Ijekavian and Ekavian editions; Ekavian version has been reprinted two times) * ''Pravopis srpskoga jezika'' (school edition), Matica srpska, Novi Sad, 1995, p. 332 (as one of the three authors, in Ekavian and Ijekavian editions; Ekavian version has been reprinted two times, Ijekavian once) * ''Pravopis srpskoga jezika – Priručnik za škole'', Beograd – Novi Sad (co-authored, in Ekavian and Ijekavian editions koautor; Ekavian version has been reprinted) * ''Ljetopis crkovni Andrije Zmajevića'', ''knjiga I'', p. 560, ''knjiga II'', p. 547,

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, 1996.

References

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