About Milka Ivić
Lived 1923 – 2011 (aged 87). Milka Ivić was a Yugoslav philologist, university teacher, linguist, grammarian, slavist and science writer.
Milka Ivić (; 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 (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, a corresponding member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts from 1983, and a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
She was married to Pavle Ivić.
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Who was Milka Ivić?
linguist
When was Milka Ivić born?
Milka Ivić was born on 11 December 1923 in Belgrade.
When did Milka Ivić die?
Milka Ivić died on 7 March 2011 in Belgrade.
What was Milka Ivić's occupation?
Milka Ivić was a philologist, university teacher, linguist, grammarian, slavist and science writer.
What nationality was Milka Ivić?
Milka Ivić was Yugoslav.
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