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He was the editor-in-chief of the linguistic journal Jezik danas ('Language today'), published by Matica srpska. He published a number of papers in linguistic journals, as well as 18 books: Ispeci pa reci; Istorijska gramatika španskog jezika; Italijansko-srpski rečnik (2 editions) Uticaji engleskog jezika u italijanskom (1971) Jezik oko nas ...
Rajna Dragićević. Rajna Dragićević, PhD, ( Serbian Cyrillic: Рајна Драгићевић) is a Serbian linguist, lexicologist and lexicographer. [1] She is a full professor at the Faculty of Philology, the University of Belgrade, Serbia. Dragićević is the author of over 250 articles published in Serbian and international linguistic ...
Classification. Serbian is a standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian, [ 20][ 21] a Slavic language ( Indo-European ), of the South Slavic subgroup. Other standardized forms of Serbo-Croatian are Bosnian, Croatian, and Montenegrin. "An examination of all the major 'levels' of language shows that BCS is clearly a single language with a single ...
Website. www .maticasrpska .org .rs. The Matica srpska ( Serbian: Матица српска, Matica srpska, Latin: Matrix Serbica) [1] is the oldest Serbian language independent, non-profit, non-governmental and cultural-scientific Serbian national institution. It was founded on June 1, 1826, in Pest (today a part of Budapest) [2] by the ...
Srpski narod i njegov jezik (The Serbian People and Their Language). Belgrade, 1971; Word and sentence prosody in Serbocroatian, by Ilse Lehiste and Pavle Ivić. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1986. He edited many periodicals and scholarly series, and was an important figure in the Slavic Linguistic Atlas project.
Epithet. An epithet (from Ancient Greek ἐπίθετον (epítheton) 'adjective', from ἐπίθετος (epíthetos) 'additional'), [ 1] also a byname, is a descriptive term (word or phrase) commonly accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a real or fictitious person, place, or thing. It is usually literally descriptive, as in ...
A characteristic of Homer's style is the use of epithets, as in "rosy-fingered" Dawn or "swift-footed" Achilles. Epithets are used because of the constraints of the dactylic hexameter (i.e., it is convenient to have a stockpile of metrically fitting phrases to add to a name) and because of the oral transmission of the poems; they are mnemonic aids to the singer and the audience alike.
Serbo-Croatian is a South Slavic language with four national standards. The Eastern Herzegovinian Neo-Shtokavian dialect forms the basis for Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian (the four national standards). Standard Serbo-Croatian has 30 phonemes according to the traditional analysis: 25 consonants and 5 vowels (or 10, if long vowels ...