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Ivan Klajn
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Ivan Klajn (Иван Клајн, ǐʋan klâjn; 31 January 1937 - 31 March 2021) was a Serbian linguist, philologist and language historian, with primary interest in Romance languages and Serbian. He was a regular member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the editor-in-chief of the Matica srpska's journal Jezik danas. Through his paternal family, which lived in Vukovar for generations, he was of Croatian-Jewish descent.
He completed the studies of the Italian language and literature at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology. After graduation, he started working at the same faculty, becoming a regular professor of the Italian language and the comparative grammar of Romance languages. Beside Romance Studies, his interest also lies in the language morphology, linguistic consultancy and the standardization of the modern Serbian language. His major works are the Rečnik jezičkih nedoumica ('The dictionary of linguistic dilemmas'), Tvorba reči u savremenom srpskom jeziku ('Morphology in modern Serbian language', 2 volumes) and Italijansko-srpski rečnik ('Italian-Serbian dictionary').
In 2017, he signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.
Klajn died from COVID-19 on 31 March 2021, in Belgrade at the age of 84.
In 1974 he started writing weekly columns on the problems of modern Serbo-Croatian, first in Borba, and afterward in Politika and NIN.
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 (1980)
Lingvističke studije (2000)
O funkciji i prirodi zamenica (1985)
Pisci i pismenjaci (1994)
Razgovori o jeziku (1978)
Rečnik jezičkih nedoumica (6 editions)
Rečnik novih reči (1992)
Stranputice smisla
Tvorba reči u savremenom srpskom jeziku - Volume I (2002)
Tvorba reči u savremenom srpskom jeziku - Volume II (2003)
In co-authorship with Pavle Ivić, Mitar Pešikan and Branislav Brborić he wrote Jezički priručnik ('Language manual'), published by Radio Television Belgrade (1991).
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