Mijo Lončarić

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Lončarić in 2018

Mijo Lončarić (1 September 1941 – 21 June 2023) was a Croatian linguist.[1]

Life and career

Mijo Lončarić was born in

Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, serving as a Director in the period 1993-1995.[1]

Lončarić published numerous dialectological works, especially on

Kajkavian dialect (Kaj jučer i danas, 1991; Kajkavsko narječje, 1996), and conducted field research of hundreds of local dialects. He co-authored several grammars and dictionaries (Hrvatska gramatika, Rječnik hrvatskoga kajkavskoga književnog jezika, Gradišćanskohrvatsko-hrvatsko-nimški rječnik, Rječnik govora Gole). He was the head of the Croatian linguistic atlas project.[1]

Lončarić died in Zagreb on 21 June 2023, at the age of 81.[2]

References

  1. ^
    Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža
    , 1999–2009, retrieved 28 February 2014
  2. ^ Preminuo istaknuti hrvatski jezikoslovac Mijo Lončarić (Novi List Online)

External links

  • Profile at the
    Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics