Milka Ivić ( sr-cyr, Милка Ивић; 11 December 1923 – 7 March 2011) was a Serbian linguist. She was born in

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. 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

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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

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from 1976, a corresponding member of the

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from 1983, and a member of the

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. She was married to

Pavle Ivić Pavle Ivić ( sr-Cyrl, Павле Ивић, ; 1 December 1924 – 19 September 1999) was a Serbian South Slavic dialectologist and phonologist. Biography Both his field work and his synthesizing studies were extensive and authoritative. A few ...

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1923 births 2011 deaths People from Belgrade Linguists from Serbia Academic staff of the University of Novi Sad Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Members of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts {{Serbia-academic-bio-stub