Miro Kačić

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Miro Kačić
Born7 July 1946
Yugoslavia
(now Croatia)
DiedFebruary 6, 2001(2001-02-06) (aged 54)
, Croatia
Occupation(s)Writer, director
Years active1961–2001

Miro Kačić (7 July 1946 – 6 February 2001) was a Croatian linguist.

After finishing primary school in Pučišća and

Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics and a professor of general linguistics
.

His primary interests were theoretical and algebraic linguistics and topics related to Croatian studies, in which he gave sociolinguistic analysis of the influence of politics in the development of Slavic studies and pointed out the critical role of politically motivated linguistics in the creation and maintenance of Serbo-Croatian myth.

Works

  • Hrvatski i srpski. Krivotvorine i zablude ("Croatian and Serbian. Falsifications and delusions", Zagreb, 1995; translated to German, English and French)
  • Jezikoslovna promišljanja ("Linguistic considerations", Zagreb, 2001)

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