Milka Ivić Explained

Milka Ivić (Serbian: Милка Ивић, 11 December 1923 – 7 March 2011) was a Serbian linguist.

She was born in Belgrade. She took her doctorate in 1954 with the thesis Značenja srpskohrvatskoga instrumentala i njihov razvoj (The Meanings of Serbo-Croatian Instrumental and Their Development), and became a professor of Serbian and Croatian language at the University of Novi Sad. She was especially known for her book Pravci u lingvistici[1] (published in English as Trends in Linguistics, 1965, tr. Muriel Heppel). She was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1976,[2] a corresponding member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts from 1983,[1] and a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

She was married to Pavle Ivić.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Milka Ivić. Toporišič, Jože. Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Slovenian. 30 December 2021.
  2. Web site: Utenlandske medlemmer. Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. no. 27 December 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20070715102608/http://www.dnva.no/c26849/artikkel/vis.html?tid=26861. 15 July 2007.