Pavle Ivić

Pavle Ivić (Serbian Cyrillic: Павле Ивић, pronounced [pâːʋle ǐːʋitɕ]; 1 December 1924 – 19 September 1999) was a Serbian South Slavic dialectologist and phonologist.

Biography

Both his field work and his synthesizing studies were extensive and authoritative. A few of his best-known publications are:

• Die serbokroatischen Dialekte, ihre Struktur und Entwicklung, Gravenhage, Mouton, 1958
• Srpski narod i njegov jezik (The Serbian People and Their Language).
  Belgrade
  , 1971;
• Word and sentence prosody in Serbocroatian, by Ilse Lehiste and Pavle Ivić.
  MIT
  Press, 1986.

He edited many periodicals and scholarly series, and was an important figure in the Slavic Linguistic Atlas project. He was an authority on the standardization of the Serbian language. He frequently lectured in the U.S. and other countries, and was an Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America.

A member of the

He was married to Milka Ivić (1923-2011), a Slavic syntactician and professor.

External links

• 'History of Serb Culture' Online Book