Mihailo Stevanović (April 3, 1903 – January 14, 1991) was a Serbian

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and

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, professor at the

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and a full member of the

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Biography

He was born in Stijena Piperska. He was one of the signatories of the Novi Sad agreement on joint

Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian ( / ), also known as Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS), is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. It is a pluricentric language with four mutually i ...

language in 1954. He published more than 600 works, including the monumental two-volume ''Savremeni srpskohrvatski jezik: gramatički sistemi i književnojezička norma'' ("The modern Serbo-Croatian language: grammatical systems and the literary language norm"; Belgrade, 1964–1969). As an editor he collaborated on the development of numerous important dictionaries: ''Rečnik srpkohrvatskoga književnog jezika'' ("The dictionary of the Serbo-Croatian literary language"; Matica srpska, 1967–1976), '' Rečnik srpskohrvatskog književnog i narodnog jezika'' ("The dictionary of the Serbo-Croatian literary and vernacular language; SANU, 1959-), ''Rečnik Njegoševa jezika'' ("The dictionary of Njegoš' language"; Belgrade, Cetinje, 1983). Together with

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he co-edited the first joint Serbian and Croatian orthography book (Novi Sad -

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, 1960). Stevanović also edited journals ''Srpski dijalektološki zbornik'', ''Južnoslovenski filolog'' and ''Naš jezik''. He was a full professor (since 1951) and the head of the Department of South Slavic languages and General Linguistics, at the

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. In 1958 he was elected a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, becoming a full member in 1963. He also served as a director of the Serbo-Croatian Language Institute (1963–1973). He was awarded the Seventh of July Award in 1973, Vuk's Award in 1987, Order of Labor of the first order in 1960, and National Service Medal with Gold Star in 1964. He died in

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stevanovic, Mihailo Linguists from Serbia 1903 births 1991 deaths 20th-century linguists