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Radoslav Katicic (born in Zagreb
Zagreb

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 in 1930) is a Croatia
Croatia

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n linguist
Linguistics

Linguistics is the science study of natural language. Linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure and the study of Meaning ....
, historian
Historian

A historian is an individual who studies and writes about history, and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, systematic narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all events in time....
, and culturologist
Culturology

Culturology is a new discipline institutionalized in Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and some other states of the former Soviet Bloc....
.

After graduating from the University of Zagreb
University of Zagreb

The University of Zagreb is the oldest Croatian university in continuous operation and also the oldest university in southeastern Europe....
 in Indo-European
Indo-European languages

The Indo-European languages are a Language family of several hundred related languages and dialects, including most major languages of Europe, the Iranian plateau , Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent ....
 comparative grammar, Katicic began extensive studies in general linguistics, ancient Balkan
Balkans

The Balkans is the historical name of a geographic subregion of southeastern Europe. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains, which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia....
 languages, indology
Indology

Indology is the academic study of the languages, texts, history and cultures of the Indian subcontinent, and as such a subset of Asian studies....
 and Croatian language
Croatian language

Croatian language is a South Slavic languages which is used primarily in Croatia, by Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in neighbouring countries where Croats are Indigenous peoples, in Italian region of Molise, and parts of the Croats diaspora....
 history. He became the head of the Slavic
Slavic languages

File:Slavic europe.svgThe Slavic languages , a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia....
 philology
Philology

Philology, derived from the Greek language considers both morphology and Meaning in linguistic expression, combining linguistics and literary studies....
 department at the University of Vienna
University of Vienna

The University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. Having opened in 1365, it is one of the oldest universities in Europe....
 in 1977 (a position he held until his retirement).

A pre-eminent authority in Croatian language questions and history, fluent in more than 20 languages, Katicic's scholarly contributions can be divided in four fields:
















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Radoslav Katicic (born in Zagreb
Zagreb

Zagreb is the Capital and the largest city of Croatia. Zagreb is the Culture of Croatia, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Cinema of Croatia, Economy of Croatia and Government of Croatia center of the Croatia....
 in 1930) is a Croatia
Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....
n linguist
Linguistics

Linguistics is the science study of natural language. Linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure and the study of Meaning ....
, historian
Historian

A historian is an individual who studies and writes about history, and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, systematic narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all events in time....
, and culturologist
Culturology

Culturology is a new discipline institutionalized in Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and some other states of the former Soviet Bloc....
.

After graduating from the University of Zagreb
University of Zagreb

The University of Zagreb is the oldest Croatian university in continuous operation and also the oldest university in southeastern Europe....
 in Indo-European
Indo-European languages

The Indo-European languages are a Language family of several hundred related languages and dialects, including most major languages of Europe, the Iranian plateau , Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent ....
 comparative grammar, Katicic began extensive studies in general linguistics, ancient Balkan
Balkans

The Balkans is the historical name of a geographic subregion of southeastern Europe. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains, which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia....
 languages, indology
Indology

Indology is the academic study of the languages, texts, history and cultures of the Indian subcontinent, and as such a subset of Asian studies....
 and Croatian language
Croatian language

Croatian language is a South Slavic languages which is used primarily in Croatia, by Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in neighbouring countries where Croats are Indigenous peoples, in Italian region of Molise, and parts of the Croats diaspora....
 history. He became the head of the Slavic
Slavic languages

File:Slavic europe.svgThe Slavic languages , a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia....
 philology
Philology

Philology, derived from the Greek language considers both morphology and Meaning in linguistic expression, combining linguistics and literary studies....
 department at the University of Vienna
University of Vienna

The University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. Having opened in 1365, it is one of the oldest universities in Europe....
 in 1977 (a position he held until his retirement).

A pre-eminent authority in Croatian language questions and history, fluent in more than 20 languages, Katicic's scholarly contributions can be divided in four fields:

  • General linguistics
    Linguistics

    Linguistics is the science study of natural language. Linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure and the study of Meaning ....
     and paleo-Balkan studies (mainly based on transformational grammar approach), consisting of works written in English:
    • A Contribution to the General Theory of Comparative Linguistics (the Hague-Paris, 1970)
    • The Ancient Languages of the Balkans, 1-2 (the Hague-Paris, 1976)


  • Linguistic-stylistic works on aspects and history of various European (Ancient Greek, Byzantine) and non-European literatures:
    • Stara indijska književnost/Old Indian literature, Zagreb 1973


  • Numerous studies on Croatian language history, from the inception of the Croats
    Croats

    Croats are a South Slavs nation mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 5 million Croats living in the southern Central Europe region, along the east bank of the Adriatic Sea and an estimated 9 million throughout the world....
     in the 7th century onwards. Katicic has charted the meanderings in the continuity of Croatian language and literature, from the earliest stone inscriptions and Glagolitic medieval literature in the Croatian recension of Church Slavonic to the works of Renaissance
    Renaissance

    The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
     writers such as Marin Držic
    Marin Držic

    Marin Dr?ic is considered the finest Croatian language Renaissance playwright and prose writer....
     and Marko Marulic
    Marko Marulic

    Marko Marulic was a Croatian language poet and Christian Humanism, known as the Crown of the Croatian Medieval Age and the father of the Croatian Renaissance....
    , who wrote in a Croatian vernacular. He also explored language standardization and wrote a syntactic description of modern Croatian (Sintaksa hrvatskoga književnoga jezika/Syntax of Standard Croatian, Zagreb 1986), based on texts by contemporary authors such as Miroslav Krleža
    Miroslav Krleža

    Miroslav Krle?a was a leading Croatian language writer and a figure in cultural life of both Yugoslav states, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ....
     and Tin Ujevic
    Tin Ujevic

    Tin Ujevic is considered to be one of the greatest Croatian language poets of all times.Augustin "Tin" Ujevic was born in Vrgorac, a small town in the Dalmatian hinterland, and grew up in what were then provincial villages of Imotski and Makarska....
     and this is one of the few syntactic descriptions of any language written consistently on the principles of the transformational grammar
    Transformational grammar

    In linguistics, a transformational grammar, or transformational-generative grammar , is a generative grammar, especially of a natural language, that has been developed in a Noam Chomsky tradition....


  • Great synthetic works that explore the beginnings of Croatian civilization in a multidisciplinary fashion based on philology, archeology, culturology, paleography and textual analysis
    • Uz pocetke hrvatskih pocetaka/Roots of Croatian roots, Split 1993
    • Litterarium studia, Vienna-Zagreb, 1999 (in German and Croatian)


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