Sanda Ham (20 August 1959) is a Croatian linguist and publicist. She is editor of the Croatian linguistic magazine ''

Jezik ''Jezik'' (lit. "Language") 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. The magazine is known for its annua ...

''.

Personal life

She was born in 1959 in

Osijek Osijek () is the fourth-largest city in Croatia, with a population of 96,848 in 2021. It is the largest city and the economic and cultural centre of the eastern Croatian region of Slavonia, as well as the administrative centre of Osijek-Baranja ...

, 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 Croatian studies ( hr, Kroatistika; german: Kroatistik; la, Croatistica; pl, Kroatystyka) is an academic discipline within Slavic studies which is concerned with the study of Croatian language, literature, history and culture. Within Slavic stu ...

) 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

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with a dissertation about language of Croatian novelist

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. Her academic mentor both in postgraduate and doctoral degree was

Stjepan Babić Stjepan Babić (29 November 1925 – 27 August 2021) was a Croatian linguist and academic. Biography Babić was born in the small town of Oriovac in Brod-Posavina County, even though his biological parents are from Hrvatsko Zagorje. He attend ...

Career

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'' (

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), ''Fluminensija'' (

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), ''Riječ'' (

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), ''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

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Personal life

She is a married and a mother of one child. She lives with her family in Osijek.

Publications

* ''Jezik zagrebačke filološke škole'',

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, Osijek (1998) * ''Školska gramatika hrvatskoga jezika'',

Školska knjiga Školska knjiga (lit. ''Schoolbook'', ) is one of the largest publishing companies in Croatia , image_flag = Flag of Croatia.svg , image_coat = Coat of arms of Croatia.svg , anthem = "Lijepa naša domo ...

, Zagreb (2002, 2nd edition - 2007, 3rd edition - 2009, 4th edition - 2012, 5th edition - 2017) * ''Hrvatski školski pravopis'' (coauthors Stjepan Babić and

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), Školska knjiga, Zagreb (2005, 2nd edition - 2008, 3rd edition - 2009, 4th edition - 2012) * ''Povijest hrvatskih gramatika'', Globus, Zagreb (2006) * ''Hrvatski jezični savjeti'' (coauthors Jadranko Mikolo, Borko Barban and Alen Orlić), Školska knjiga, Zagreb (2014)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ham, Sanda Living people 1959 births People from Osijek University of Zagreb alumni Linguists from Croatia