Asim Peco
Encyclopedia
Dr. Asim Peco is a renowned Bosnian
linguist, academician
, professor, author and editor.
Peco's work is credited for the development of Bosnia
n 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
.
, 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 the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology
, which was within the Faculty of Philosophy at the time. 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.
He was a Member and contributor 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. 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:
He was also a presenter at the 1985 Yugoslav
Onomastics
Conference, a contributor to the Tenth International Committee for Phonetics and Phonology of Slavonic Languages Conference in 1987, and editor of the magazine Bosanskohercegovački Dijalektološki Anthology.
Professor Peco retired from the University of Belgrade in 1992, and makes his home in Belgrade.
award" in 1990 in Belgrade.
. The publisher is the Bosnian Philological Society, and co-publishers are the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovia and "Bemust".
Bosnians
Bosnians are people who reside in, or come from, Bosnia and Herzegovina. By the modern state definition a Bosnian can be anyone who holds citizenship of the state. This includes, but is not limited to, members of the constituent ethnic groups of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bosniaks, Bosnian Serbs and...
linguist, academician
Academician
The title Academician denotes a Full Member of an art, literary, or scientific academy.In many countries, it is an honorary title. There also exists a lower-rank title, variously translated Corresponding Member or Associate Member, .-Eastern Europe and China:"Academician" may also be a functional...
, professor, author and editor.
Peco's work is credited for the development of Bosnia
Bosnia (region)
Bosnia is a eponomous region of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It lies mainly in the Dinaric Alps, ranging to the southern borders of the Pannonian plain, with the rivers Sava and Drina marking its northern and eastern borders. The other eponomous region, the southern, other half of the country is...
n and Herzegovinian
Herzegovina
Herzegovina is the southern region of Bosnia and Herzegovina. While there is no official border distinguishing it from the Bosnian region, it is generally accepted that the borders of the region are Croatia to the west, Montenegro to the south, the canton boundaries of the Herzegovina-Neretva...
linguistics. His areas of specialization include dialectology of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, namely the Štokavian and Torlakian
Torlakian
Torlakian or Torlak is a name given to the group of South Slavic dialects of southeastern Serbia , northeastern Macedonia , western Bulgaria , which is intermediate between Serbian, Bulgarian and Macedonian.Some linguists classify it as an Old-Shtokavian dialect of Serbian or a fourth dialect of...
dialects. He wrote books on the speeches of eastern and central Herzegovina, speeches of western Herzegovina, Ikavian-Šćakavian speeches of Bosnia and Turkish
Turkish language
Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...
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
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
' International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
The International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991, more commonly referred to as the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia or ICTY, is a...
.
Early years
Peco was born in the village of Ortiješ, near MostarMostar
Mostar is a city and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the largest and one of the most important cities in the Herzegovina region and the center of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation. Mostar is situated on the Neretva river and is the fifth-largest city in the country...
, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...
, in 1927. His brother, Džemal Peco, was a teacher.
After graduating Viša pedagoška škola high school in Sarajevo
Sarajevo
Sarajevo |Bosnia]], surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of Southeastern Europe and the Balkans....
, Peco went to Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
where he enrolled the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology
University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology
The Faculty of Philology is one of the constituent schools of the University of Belgrade. The school's purpose is to train and educate its students in the academic study or practice in linguistics and philology.-History:...
, which was within the Faculty of Philosophy at the time. 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 of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina is the national academy of Bosnia and Herzegovina.-History:...
since 1978, and a Corresponding (Foreign) Member of the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts
Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts
Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts is the most important scientific institution of Montenegro....
since 2003. 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
International Congress of Slavists
The International Congress of Slavists is a Slavist quinquennial gathering for the humanities and social sciences. The first Congress was held in 1929 in Prague.Forty countries worldwide are represented...
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 languageMacedonian languageMacedonian is a South Slavic language spoken as a first language by approximately 2–3 million people principally in the region of Macedonia but also in the Macedonian diaspora...
, 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."
He was also a presenter at the 1985 Yugoslav
Yugoslavs
Yugoslavs is a national designation used by a minority of South Slavs across the countries of the former Yugoslavia and in the diaspora...
Onomastics
Onomastics
Onomastics or onomatology is the study of proper names of all kinds and the origins of names. The words are from the Greek: "ὀνομαστικός" , "of or belonging to naming" and "ὀνοματολογία" , from "ὄνομα" "name". Toponymy or toponomastics, the study of place names, is one of the principal branches of...
Conference, a contributor to the Tenth International Committee for Phonetics and Phonology of Slavonic Languages Conference in 1987, and editor of the magazine Bosanskohercegovački Dijalektološki Anthology.
Professor Peco retired from the University of Belgrade in 1992, 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 "VukVuk Stefanovic Karadžic
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić was a Serbian philolog and linguist, the major reformer of the Serbian language, and deserves, perhaps, for his collections of songs, fairy tales, and riddles to be called the father of the study of Serbian folklore. He was the author of the first Serbian dictionary...
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 warsYugoslav wars
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of wars, fought throughout the former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1995. The wars were complex: characterized by bitter ethnic conflicts among the peoples of the former Yugoslavia, mostly between Serbs on the one side and Croats and Bosniaks on the other; but also...
. 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.
- (1961). Akcenat sela Ortiješa. Sarajevo: Naučno društvo NR Bosne i Hercegovine.
- — & Nikolić, B. (1964). Rasprave i građa. Srpski dijalektološki zbornik, knj. 14. Beograd: Institut za srpskohrvatski jezik.
- — & Pešikan, M. (1967). Informator o savremenom književnom jeziku sa rečnikom. Beograd: "Mlado pokolenje,".
- (1967). "Uticaj turskog jezika na fonetiku štokavskih govora". Naš jezik, 16, 3.
- (1970). Zvončići zvone: akcenatska čitanka za V, VI, VII, i VIII razred osnovne škole. Beograd: Naučna knjiga.
- (1971). Osnovi akcentologije srpskohrvatskog jezika. Univerzitetski udžbenici. Beograd: Naučna knj.
- — & Stanojčić, Z. (1972). Srpskohrvatski jezik. Beograd.
- (1978). Pregled srpskohrvatskih dijalekata. Univerzitetski udžbenici. Beograd: Naučna knjiga.
- (1980). Osnovi akcentologije srpskohvatskog jezika. Beograd: Naučna knjiga.
- (1985). Stazama našeg jezika. Beograd: Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva.
- — & Mandić, P. (1986). Ikavskoštakavski govori zapadne Hercegovine. Sarajevo: Akademija nauka i umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine. /
- (1987). Iz jezičke teorije i prakse. Beograd: Naučna knj.
- — & Karadžić, V. S.Vuk Stefanovic KaradžicVuk Stefanović Karadžić was a Serbian philolog and linguist, the major reformer of the Serbian language, and deserves, perhaps, for his collections of songs, fairy tales, and riddles to be called the father of the study of Serbian folklore. He was the author of the first Serbian dictionary...
(1987). Turcizmi u Vukovim rječnicima. Beograd: Vuk Karadžić. ISBN 8630700580 - (1989). Akcenatska čitanka. Beograd: Naučna knj. ISBN 8623700597
- — & Gošić, N., & Kovačević-Kojić, D. (1989). Osamsto godina povelje bosanskog bana Kulina, 1189-1989. Sarajevo: Akademija nauka i umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine. ISBN 8671230252
- (1990). Književni jezik i narodni govori. Mostar: Prva književna komuna. ISBN 637500757 /
- — & Čović, B. (1990). Mikrotoponimija Podveležja. Sarajevo: Akademija nauka i umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine. ISBN 8671230295 /
- (1990). Vukovim jezičkim stazama. Valjevo: GIRO "Milić Rakić". ISBN 8671730336
- (1991). Akcenti i dužine u srpskohrvatskom jeziku. Beograd: Naučna knj. ISBN 8623701240
- (1995). Pisci i njihov jezik. Beograd: Prosveta.
- (1996). Iz života naših reči. Beograd: Prosveta. ISBN 8607009788
- (2000). Jezičkim stazama Desanke Maksimović. Beograd: Prosveta. ISBN 8607012304
- (2001). Sa naših jezičkih izvorišta: od Kulina bana do naših dana. Beograd: Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva. ISBN 8617085681