Summary
Pavle Ivić: Discussions, studies, articles I-II
3. About the history of language
As part of the Complete Works of Pavlo Lvić edition (edited by academician Milorad Radovanović) prof. Dr. Mato Pižurica, in accordance with the rules of the editorial office and distribution of editorial tasks, selected contributions, made editorial corrections, i.e. adaptations to the adopted rules. It was, among other things, about 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. He then determined the layout of the appendices (mainly guided by the topic and character of the texts, e.g. their purpose, the type of publication in which they were originally published, of course, and the significance of the works), supervised the first and second proofreading.
Book content is extremely significant (of the Ivic 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" for language historians (domestic and foreign) and the most important unit on the list of literature for studies at all levels, up to the doctoral level. The second was written, by order, for Gluščević's planned Serbian encyclopedia - shorter, simpler, limited only to Serbian material, and therefore will be more suitable for less demanding levels of study and profiles that are not strictly 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-Vukov era, the Vukov linguistic and orthographic revolution and its fate, including the final Serbian-Croatian linguistic split). Among those from the last group, there are extremely popular (publicistic) texts, which, even without scientific apparatus, are eloquent and current 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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