Vladimir Ivir

Vladimir Ivir MVO (November 1, 1934, Zagreb – February 21, 2011, Zagreb ) was a Croatian linguist, lexicographer and translation scholar.

Ivir's early interest was in English syntax. During his postgraduate research at University College London in 1962/63, under the supervision of Randolph Quirk, he completed a thesis on predicative adjectives. During his time in London, Ivir became interested in the "linguistic revolution" stemming from the ideas of Noam Chomsky, and, upon returning home, became the first Croatian linguist to write an outline of transformational linguistics. In 2001 his home Faculty has established postgraduate study of Translatorship, based on Ivir's ideas and programs. Ivir was also the official translator at the reception in Banski dvori during US President Richard Nixon's visit to Zagreb in 1970.

Selected publications (1982) A contrastive analysis of English adjectives and their Serbo-Croatian correspondents (LCCN 94147360) (1991) Languages in Contact and Contrast: Essays in Contact Linguistics (= Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs 54), Editor, with Damir Kalogjera (1993) Croatian-English Dictionary of Business & Government (1993) Hrvatsko-engleski poslovno-upravni rječnik (LCCN 94124627) (2000) Englesko-hrvatski poslovni rječnik (ed. Višnja Špiljak, Vladimir Ivir), Masmedia, Zagreb, 2000., (2007) Vladimir Ivir, Ilirjana Shehu: Hrvatsko-englesko-albanski rječnik poslovno administrativnog nazivlja s albansko-hrvatskim indeksom, Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 2007., (2007) Hrvatsko-engleski rječnik poslovno-administrativnog nazivlja, 2007.