Vladimir Anić

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Vladimir Anić (21 November 1930 – 30 November 2000) was a Croatian linguist and lexicographer. He is the author of Rječnik hrvatskoga jezika (1991), the first modern single-volume dictionary of Croatian.

Anić was born in

Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb in 1956.[2] In 1963 he obtained a Ph.D. with the thesis Language of Ante Kovačić.[2] He taught at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zadar from 1960 to 1974, when he moved to the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, becoming a full professor and head of the Department of Croatian literary language[3] in 1976.[2]

Anić published more than two hundred papers, studies, reviews and assays in subject areas of

stylistics
. He taught at universities in Germany, Sweden and Slovenia.

Anić's Dictionary of Croatian

Vladimir Anić's dictionary of Croatian started in 1972 and was published in December 1991,[4] 90 years after the last comparable dictionary by Ivan Broz and Franjo Iveković. Two expanded and revised editions followed in 1994 and 1998,[5] while the fourth edition, complete with a CD-ROM version,[6] was published posthumously in 2003.[7]

Other major works by Anić are Pravopisni priručnik hrvatskoga jezika (first published as Pravopisni priručnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika in 1986), an orthographic manual coauthored with Josip Silić,[2] and Rječnik stranih riječi (1999), a dictionary of loanwords in Croatian, coauthored with Ivo Goldstein.

As a linguist, Vladimir Anić was a staunch

purism.[9]

He died in Zagreb.[1]

References

  1. ^
    Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža
    , 1999–2009, retrieved January 1, 2014
  2. ^ a b c d "Vladimir Anić 1930. – 2000" (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
  3. ^ "Katedra za hrvatski standardni jezik – bivši članovi Katedre" [Department of Croatian standard language – former members of the Department] (in Croatian). Zagreb: Kroatistika. Archived from the original on 29 April 2014. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
  4. ISSN 0350-3305
    .
  5. S2CID 195959825. CROSBI 792649
    .
  6. ^ Jovanović, Neven (17 June 2004). "Mi bismo još!: Recenzija knjige Vladimira Anića, Veliki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika" [We want more!: Review of Vladimir Anić’s Big Croatian Dictionary] (in Croatian). Zagreb: Zarez. Archived from the original on 19 April 2012. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
  7. ISBN 953-6045-24-9
    .
  8. ZDB-ID 400820-0. Archived
    (PDF) from the original on 2 September 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  9. ^ Jergović, Miljenko (4 March 2000). "Govorite li idiotski?: razgovor s Vladimirom Anićem" [Do you speak idiotic?: Interview with Vladimir Anić] (in Croatian). Feral Tribune. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2013.

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