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Place of Birth: Reka, Croatia, Koprivnica-Križevci County, Croatia
About Mijo Lončarić
- Mijo Loncaric (born 1 September 1941) is a Croatian linguist.He was born in Reka, Croatia.
- He received a degree in Yugoslav languages and literature and German at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb in 1966, and a PhD with a thesis on Bilogora Kajkavian speeches (published in 1986).
- He was the recipient of the Humboldt Foundation scholarship on two occasions.
- After lecturing at various foreign universities in 1973 he started working at the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, serving as a Director in the period 1993-1995.Loncaric published numerous dialectological works, especially on Kajkavian dialect (Kaj jucer i danas, 1991; Kajkavsko narjecje, 1996), and has conducted field research of hundreds of local dialects.
- He co-authored several grammars and dictionaries (Hrvatska gramatika, Rjecnik hrvatskoga kajkavskoga književnog jezika, Gradišcanskohrvatsko-hrvatsko-nimški rjecnik, Rjecnik govora Gole).
- He is the head of the Croatian linguistic atlas project.
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