Jasmina Grković-Major

Jasmina Grković-Major
Born in 1959 (Stanišić). Finished elementary school in Novi Sad. Graduated from
secondary school (grammar school) in Novi Sad in 1977, as the best student in arts
and humanities. B.A. in South Slavic Linguistics from the University of Novi Sad
(Faculty of Philosophy) in 1981. M.A. in Linguistics in 1984 from the University of
Novi Sad. Ph.D. in Philology from the University of Novi Sad (Faculty of Philosophy)
in 1990 (thesis: The Language of the Psalter from the Crnojević Printing House).
Attended courses of foreign languages abroad during studies (Bordeaux, Berlin,
Lyon, Munich, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Paris). From 1982 Assistant Lecturer
at the Department of South Slavic Languages, from 1991 Assistant Professor, from
1995 Associate Professor, and since 2000 Full Professor for Old Church Slavonic and
Comparative Grammar of Slavic Languages at Department of Serbian Language and
Linguistics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad. Visiting Professor at the
University of Banja Luka since 2005. University courses: Old Church Slavonic,
Serbian Church Slavonic, Comparative Grammar of Slavic languages
(undergraduate studies), Basics of Old Church Slavonic Syntax (graduate studies),
Theoretical and methodological bases of historical syntax, Historical semantics and
lexicology. Mentor for many diploma papers and M.A. theses, and six PhD theses.
Head of the Department of Serbian Language and Linguistics at the Faculty of
Philosophy in Novi Sad. Member of the Board for Old Church Slavonic of the Serbian
Academy of Sciences and Arts, member of the Board of the Department for
Literature and Language of Matica srpska and the Executive Boards of Matica
srpska, secretary of Njegoš Board of Matica srpska. Member of Societas Linguistica
Europaea and the Serbian Society for classical studies. Editorial board member of
Zbornik Matice srpske za filologiju i lingvistiku, Editor-in-Chief of Prilozi proučavanju
jezika, Editor-in-Chief of the edition Lingvističke sveske, member of the scientific
board for linguistics / philology for the Serbian Encyclopedia. Awarded by the
"Aleksandar Belić" fund (Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts) in 1994 for the
best linguistic book (in the category of young scholars). Awarded by the Board for
the Celebration of 500 Years of the first Cyrillic Printing House among South Slavs
(Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts) in 1994. Coordinator of the project
History of Serbian Language (financed by the Ministry for Science of the Republic of
Serbia, 2001-2010, with researchers from Novi Sad and Niš). Worked on the
projects The History of Serbocroatian Literary and Vernacular Language (1982-
2000) and The Cyrillic Manuscripts of the Matica srpska Library (1988-1999). In the
framework of the scholarly exchange between the University in Novi Sad and the
University in Regensburg, she is the coordinator of the Serbian part of the subject
Sprachwandel im Serbischen und anderen slavischen Sprachen (2009-2011). Guest
at several foreign universities (research programmes and/or lectures): Harvard
University (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1988), The Ohio State
University (Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies, 1997); Institut für

Slawistik der Universität Wien (2002), Institut für Slawistik der Universität
Regensburg (2008, 2009). Participated in many international congresses and
conferences in the country and abroad (Brno, Veliko Trnovo, Columbus - USA,
Krakow, Moscow, Ohrid, Regensburg, Sofia). Published the following books:
Sofijska služba svetom Savi. Paleografska, ortografska i jezička ispitivanja, Novi
Sad, 1986; Jezik Psaltira iz štamparije Crnojevića, Podgorica, 1993; Spisi Dimitrija
Kantakuzina i Vladislava Gramatika (ed.), Beograd, 1993; Đurađ Crnojević,
jeromonah Makarije, Oktoih prvoglasnik I-II (ed.), Cetinje 1996; Pitanja iz
staroslovenske sintakse i leksike, Novi Sad 2001; Sintaksička istraživanja
(sinhrono-dijahroni plan) (ed.), Novi Sad 2007 (with V. Ružić); Spisi iz istorijske
lingvistike, Novi Sad, 2007; Pavle Ivić, Studije iz srpske srednjovekovne pismenosti
(ed.), Celokupna dela Pavla Ivića (ed. Milorad Radovanović), Novi Sad, 2008;
Standardizacija staroslovenskog ćiriličkog pisma i njegova registracija u Unikodu
(ed.), Beograd, 2009 (with G. Jovanović, Z. Kostić. V. Savić). Translated and
introduced: Andre Martine, Indoevropski jezik i "Indoevropljani", Novi Sad, 1987;
Edvard Sapir, Jezik, Novi Sad 1992; translated: Piter Heriti, Jezička razmatranja,
Beograd 1999. Published papers in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Sarajevo, Banja Luka,
Podgorica, Sofia, Moscow, Brno / Prague, Bloomington – Slavica, Oxford –
Blackwell. Corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
since 2009.
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