Sanda Ham | |
---|---|
Born | |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Zagreb |
Thesis | Passive Sentence in the Contemporary Croatian Literary Language (1988) |
Doctoral advisor | Stjepan Babić |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Linguist |
Sub-discipline | Croatian studies |
Institutions | University of Osijek |
Sanda Ham (20 August 1959) is a Croatian linguist and publicist. She is editor of the Croatian linguistic magazine Jezik .
She was born in 1959 in Osijek,where she attended elementary and grammar school as well as the Faculty of Pedagogy where she graduated in 1982. She received her postgraduate degree in linguistics (Croatian studies) at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb in 1988. Her dissertation was on passive sentences in standard Croatian. Six years later she received a doctor's degree with a dissertation about language of Croatian novelist Josip Kozarac. Her academic mentor both in postgraduate and doctoral degree was Stjepan Babić. [1]
In 2004 she became executive editor of Jezik,for which she had been a contributor since 1996. She served on the editorial board of linguistic magazine Jezikoslovlje (Linguistics) for two years. Her work has been published in Croatian literary magazines,such as Književna revija (Osijek),Filologija (Zagreb),Fluminensija (Rijeka),Riječ (Budapest),Dometi (Rijeka) and others. She writes for political magazine Hrvatski tjednik.
She was elected as one of 22 Heroes of all times,people prominent and notable in their field of work,by listeners of Croatian Radio.
One of the defining features of modern Croatian is according to some a preference for word coinage from native Slavic morphemes,as opposed to adopting loanwords or replacing them altogether. This particularly relates to other Serbo-Croatian standards of Bosnian,Montenegrin and Serbian which liberally draw on Turkish,Latin,Greek,Russian and English loanwords.
Vatroslav Jagić was a Croatian scholar of Slavic studies in the second half of the 19th century.
Kajkavian is a South Slavic supradialect or language spoken primarily by Croats in much of Central Croatia and Gorski Kotar.
Chakavian or Čakavian is a South Slavic supradialect or language spoken by Croats along the Adriatic coast,in the historical regions of Dalmatia,Istria,Croatian Littoral and parts of coastal and southern Central Croatia,as well as by the Burgenland Croats as Burgenland Croatian in southeastern Austria,northwestern Hungary and southwestern Slovakia as well as few municipalities in southern Slovenia on the border with Croatia.
Dalibor Brozović was a Croatian linguist,Slavist,dialectologist and politician. He studied the history of standard languages in the Slavic region,especially Croatian. He was an active Esperantist since 1946,and wrote Esperanto poetry as well as translated works into the language.
Ivo Pranjković is a Croatian linguist.
Ranko Matasović is a Croatian linguist,Indo-Europeanist,and Celticist.
Stjepan Babić was a Croatian linguist and academic.
Stjepan Ivšić was a Croatian linguist,Slavicist,and accentologist.
Jezik is a Croatian language literary magazine published in Croatia by the Croatian Philological Society since 1952. Its editors-in-chief have included Ljudevit Jonke and Stjepan Babić.
Bratoljub Klaić was a Croatian linguist and translator.
Stjepan Damjanović is a Croatian linguist,philologist and paleoslavist. He worked as a regular professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb. He is a former President of Matica hrvatska.
Vladimir Ivir MVO was a Croatian linguist,lexicographer and translation scholar. He was the first Croatian theoretician of translation,highly appreciated among the European linguists.
Croatian is the standardised variety of the Serbo-Croatian pluricentric language mainly used by Croats. It is the national official language and literary standard of Croatia,one of the official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina,Montenegro,the Serbian province of Vojvodina,the European Union and a recognized minority language elsewhere in Serbia and other neighbouring countries.
Josip Lisac(Croatian pronunciation:[jǒsiplǐːsat͡s];born 23 November 1950),is a Croatian linguist and dialectologist.
Snježana Kordić is a Croatian linguist. In addition to her work in syntax,she has written on sociolinguistics. Kordićis known among non-specialists for numerous articles against the puristic and prescriptive language policy in Croatia. Her 2010 book on language and nationalism popularises the theory of pluricentric languages in the Balkans.
The dialects of Serbo-Croatian include the vernacular forms and standardized sub-dialect forms of Serbo-Croatian as a whole or as part of its standard varieties:Bosnian,Croatian,Montenegrin,and Serbian. They are part of the dialect continuum of South Slavic languages that joins through the transitional Torlakian dialects the Macedonian dialects to the south,Bulgarian dialects to the southeast and Slovene dialects to the northwest.
Smiljana Rendić was a Croatian woman journalist,translator,vaticanist,judaist scholar,poet,notable for her reporting from Second Vatican Council and for her censorship by ruling Communist authorities of Yugoslavia due to her Catholicism and Croatian nationality.
Petrica Novosel Žic was a Croatian cartographer and geography professor at the University of Zagreb.
Ana Borovečki is a Croatian female clinical pharmacologist and toxicologist.