Asim Peco

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birth_date = 1927-05-24
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field = Linguistics
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known_for = Serbo-Croatian language, and its dialects
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1990, Vuk award
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Dr. Asim Peco (IPA2|âsim pěːʦo) (born 1927-05-24 in Ortiješ near Mostar) is a renowned Bosniak linguist, academician, professor, author and editor.cite web |url=http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=hr&u=http://www.gacko.net/asim_peco.htm&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=4&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Asim%2BPeco%2522%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3DynO%26sa%3DN |title=Asim Peco |accessdate=2008-09-08 |publisher=gacko.net]

Peco's work is credited for the development of Bosnian and Herzegovinian linguistics. His areas of specialization include dialectology of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, namely the Štokavian and Torlakian dialects. He wrote books on the speeches of eastern and central Herzegovina, speeches of western Herzegovina, Ikavian-Šćakavian speeches of Bosnia and Turkish loan words into them.

His work is cited or referenced by many. For example, his research on eastern Bosnian dialect was discussed at the United Nations' International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. [cite web |url=http://www.un.org/icty/transe33/010319ed.htm |pages=p. 8695 |title=Monday, 19 March 2001 [Open session] Upon commencing at 9.38 a.m. |accessdate=2008-09-09 |date=2001-03-19 |work= |publisher=United Nations]

Early years

Peco was born in the village of Ortiješ, near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1927. His brother, Džemal Peco, was a teacher.

After graduating "Viša pedagoška škola" high school in Sarajevo, Peco went to Belgrade where he enrolled to the Faculty of Philosophy (later called Faculty of Philology) at the University of Belgrade. His 1958 Ph.D. dissertation was entitled "Govor istočne Hercegovine" ("The speech of eastern Herzegovina"). Already in the high school Peco showed interest in scientific research, to which he is dedicated to this day.

Career

After completing his education at the University of Belgrade, Peco became a regular professor of Philology at the university, where he was elected several times as a head of the department for Serbo-Croatian and South Slavic languages. He was a menthor for numerous M.A. and Ph.D. theses, and a participant to numerous domestic and international conferences.

He was a Member and contributor [cite web |url=http://www.anubih.ba/index.php?option=content&lang=eng&Theme=speceditions1&Level=2&ItemID=7 |title=Special editions |accessdate=2008-09-09 |publisher=anubih.ba] of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1978, and a Corresponding (Foreign) Member of the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2003. [cite web |url=http://www.canu.cg.yu/cmsen/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=36 |title=DIVISION OF ARTS |accessdate=2008-09-08 |publisher=canu.cg.yu] . Peco edited journal "Bosanskohercegovački dijalektološki zbornik" ("Bosnian-Herzegovinian dialectological miscellany") for many years, and served a member of editing boards of many other journals.

In 1963, at the Fifth International Congress of Slavists held in Sofia, Bulgaria, Peco complained about some of the participants, stating:

"...individual members of the delegation of the host country" in the Linguistic section "attempted to deny the right to independence of the Macedonian language, a language which possesses both its own literature, and its own grammar... True, such opinions are not new. They are a reflection of old, non-Marxist theories, long ago trampled into oblivion by time. Fortunately, such concepts were not also the opinion of the [Bulgarian] delegation as a whole. Besides, this type of formulation was not based on fact, which would be difficult to deny. On the contrary, the baselessness of such formulations was easy to prove even without referring to great authorities, and without referring to the basic principles of Marxist science." [cite web |url=http://files.osa.ceu.hu/holdings/300/8/3/text/108-5-121.shtml |title=Yugoslav Complaints against "Non-Marxist Attitudes" at the Sofia Slavist Congress
accessdate=2008-09-08 |date=1963-10-02 |work= |publisher=Open Society Archives]

He was also a presenter at the 1985 Yugoslav Onomastics Conference, [cite conference | first = Peco | last = A. | coauthors = Vukičić, D., & Gošić, N. | title = Jugoslovenska onomastička konferencija | booktitle = Zbornik referata i materijala V jugoslovenske onomastičke konferencije | pages = | publisher = Akademija nauka i umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine | date = 1985 | location = Sarajevo | oclc = 13497276
accessdate =2008-09-08 ] a contributor to the Tenth International Committee for Phonetics and Phonology of Slavonic Languages Conference in 1987, [cite web |url=http://www.unesco.org/webworld/sarajevo/i.html |title=907. International Committee for Phonetics and Phonology of Slavonic Languages Conference |accessdate=2008-09-09 |publisher=unesco.org] and editor of the magazine "Bosanskohercegovački Dijalektološki Anthology".

Professor Peco retired from the University of Belgrade in 1992,cite web |url=http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=hr&u=http://www.comart.mapabih.com/a2/index.php/nw/9496.html&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=2&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522asim%2Bpeco%2527%2522%26start%3D50%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN |title=Predstavljena izabrana djela akademika Asima Pece Presentation of selected works of academics Asim Pece |accessdate=2008-09-09 |publisher=mapabih.com] and makes his home in Belgrade.

Awards

Amongst his awards, Peco received the "Veselin Masleša award" in 1986 in Sarajevo, "14 februar award" in Mostar in 1986, and the "Vuk award" in 1990 in Belgrade.

Partial bibliography

Peco is a first scientist in Bosnia and Herzegovina that has had published collected works after the Yugoslav wars. The publisher is the Bosnian Philological Society, and co-publishers are the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovia and "Bemust".

* (1960). "Les consonnes longues en serbocroate". Strasbourg. fr icon
* (1961). "Akcenat sela Ortiješa". Sarajevo: Naučno društvo NR Bosne i Hercegovine. hr icon
* — & Nikolić, B. (1964). "Rasprave i građa". Srpski dijalektološki zbornik, knj. 14. Beograd: Institut za srpskohrvatski jezik. sr icon
* — & Pešikan, M. (1967). "Informator o savremenom književnom jeziku sa rečnikom". Beograd: "Mlado pokolenje,". hr icon
* (1967). "Uticaj turskog jezika na fonetiku štokavskih govora". "Naš jezik", 16, 3. sr icon
* (1970). "Zvončići zvone: akcenatska čitanka za V, VI, VII, i VIII razred osnovne škole". Beograd: Naučna knjiga. sr icon
* (1971). "Osnovi akcentologije srpskohrvatskog jezika". Univerzitetski udžbenici. Beograd: Naučna knj. hr icon
* — & Stanojčić, Z. (1972). "Srpskohrvatski jezik". Beograd. sr icon
* (1978). "Pregled srpskohrvatskih dijalekata". Univerzitetski udžbenici. Beograd: Naučna knjiga. hr icon
* (1980). "Osnovi akcentologije srpskohvatskog jezika". Beograd: Naučna knjiga. hr icon
* (1985). "Stazama našeg jezika". Beograd: Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva. sr icon
* — & Mandić, P. (1986). "Ikavskoštakavski govori zapadne Hercegovine". Sarajevo: Akademija nauka i umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine. hr icon
* (1987). "Iz jezičke teorije i prakse". Beograd: Naučna knj. hr icon
* — & Karadžić, V. S. (1987). "Turcizmi u Vukovim rječnicima". Beograd: Vuk Karadžić. ISBN 8630700580 sr icon
* (1989). "Akcenatska čitanka". Beograd: Naučna knj. ISBN 8623700597 sr icon
* — & Gošić, N., & Kovačević-Kojić, D. (1989). "Osamsto godina povelje bosanskog bana Kulina, 1189-1989". Sarajevo: Akademija nauka i umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine. ISBN 8671230252 sr icon
* (1990). "Književni jezik i narodni govori". Mostar: Prva književna komuna. ISBN 637500757 hr icon
* — & Čović, B. (1990). "Mikrotoponimija Podveležja". Sarajevo: Akademija nauka i umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine. ISBN 8671230295 sr icon
* (1990). "Vukovim jezičkim stazama". Valjevo: GIRO "Milić Rakić". ISBN 8671730336 sr icon
* (1991). "Akcenti i dužine u srpskohrvatskom jeziku". Beograd: Naučna knj. ISBN 8623701240 hr icon
* (1995). "Pisci i njihov jezik". Beograd: Prosveta. sr icon
* (1996). "Iz života naših reč"i. Beograd: Prosveta. ISBN 8607009788 sr icon
* (2000). "Jezićkim stazama Desanke Maksimović". Beograd: Prosveta. ISBN 8607012304 sr icon
* (2001). "Sa naših jezičkih izvorišta: od Kulina bana do naših dana". Beograd: Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva. ISBN 8617085681 sr icon

References

External links

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NAME = Peco, Asim
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SHORT DESCRIPTION = Linguist; Academician
DATE OF BIRTH = 1927-05-24
PLACE OF BIRTH = Ortijes, near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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