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Pavle Ilić: The Complete Works I-V
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As part of the Complete Works of Pavle Ilić edition (edited by academician Milorad Radovanović) prof. Dr. Mato Pižurica, in accordance with the rules of the Editorial Board and the distribution of editorial tasks, selected the contributions and made editorial corrections. It was about, among other things, the complex issues of "transferring" from Latin to Cyrillic not only a limited number of texts printed in Latin, but also examples of the target language, i.e. Proto-Slavic and Proto-Serbian reconstructions, etc., then determined the layout of the appendices (mainly guided by the topic and character of the texts, for example their purpose, the type of publication in which they were originally published, of course, the significance of the works), supervised the first and second proofreading.
The content of the book was extremely significant (Ivicev level). It begins with two synthetic texts of an encyclopedic nature: the first was printed in the second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Yugoslavia, indispensable as a "guide" to historians of languages (domestic and foreign) and the most important unit on the list of literature for studies at all levels, up to doctoral; the second was written, by order, for the planned Gluščević Serbian Encyclopedia - shorter, simpler, limited only to Serbian literature, and therefore will be more suitable for less demanding levels of study and profiles that are not narrowly linguistic. Then there are several contributions from the history of the Serbian (vernacular) language, then from etymology, onomastics and lexicology, then from historical dialectology, the history of the Serbian literary language (from the language of medieval literary and legal texts, the pre-Vuk era, the Vuk linguistic and orthographic revolution and its fate, including the final Serbian-Croatian linguistic split). Among those from the last group, there are also extraordinarily popular (publicistic) texts, which are eloquent and current even without scientific apparatus to such an extent (prophetic is not too strong a qualification) that they can be compared to parts of his cult book Serbian people and his language.
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