Vladimir Anić (21 November 1930 – 30 November 2000) was a

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and

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. He is the

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of ''Rječnik hrvatskoga jezika'' (1991), the first modern single-volume dictionary of Croatian. Anić was born in

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. He received a B.A. degree in Yugoslav languages and literature and Russian language and literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb in 1956. In 1963 he obtained a Ph.D. with the thesis ''Language of

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''. He taught at the Faculty of Philosophy in

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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 in 1976. Anić published more than two hundred papers, studies, reviews and assays in subject areas of syntax,

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lexicography Lexicography is the study of lexicons, and is divided into two separate academic disciplines. It is the art of compiling dictionaries. * Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries. * Theoreti ...

, lexicology,

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

Vladimir Anić's dictionary of Croatian started in 1972 and was published in December 1991, 90 years after the last comparable dictionary by

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and Franjo Iveković. Two expanded and revised editions followed in 1994 and 1998, while the fourth edition, complete with a CD-ROM version, was published posthumously in 2003. Other major works by Anić are (first published as in 1986), an orthographic manual coauthored with Josip Silić, and (1999), a dictionary of

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s in Croatian, coauthored with

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. As a linguist, Vladimir Anić was a staunch descriptivist; he saw his dictionary as "not a book of best words, but a book of all words", and stressed the need for language creativity and freedom as a counterweight against

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. He died in

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''Hrvatski jezični portal''
– online Croatian dictionary based on Anić's work {{DEFAULTSORT:Anic, Vladimir 1930 births 2000 deaths Linguists from Croatia Croatian lexicographers Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb alumni Academic staff of the University of Zagreb 20th-century linguists Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery 20th-century lexicographers