Stjepan Babić is a Croatian linguist and academic.

Biography

He was born in the small town of Oriovac

Oriovac

Oriovac is a village and municipality in Brod-Posavina County, Croatia. Its coordinates are . It has 6,559 inhabitants, 95% which are Croats....

 in Brod-Posavina County

Brod-Posavina County

Brod-Posavina County is the southern Slavonian county in Croatia. Its center is the city of Slavonski Brod and it spreads along the left bank of the Sava river, hence the name Posavina...

, even though his biological parents are from Hrvatsko Zagorje

Hrvatsko Zagorje

Hrvatsko Zagorje is a region north of Zagreb, Croatia. It comprises the whole area north of Medvednica mountain up to Slovenia in the north and west, and up to the regions of Međimurje and Podravina in the north and east...

. He attended primary school in Oriovac, and gymnasium

Gymnasium (school)

A gymnasium is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English grammar schools or sixth form colleges and U.S. college preparatory high schools. The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, meaning a locality for both physical and intellectual...

 in Slavonski Brod

Slavonski Brod

Slavonski Brod is a city in Croatia, with a population of 59,507 in 2011. The city was known as Marsonia in the Roman Empire, and as Brod na Savi 1244–1934. It is the sixth largest city in Croatia, after Zagreb, Split, Rijeka, Osijek and Zadar. Located in the region of Slavonia, it is the...

, Osijek

Osijek

Osijek is the fourth largest city in Croatia with a population of 83,496 in 2011. It is the largest city and the economic and cultural centre of the eastern Croatian region of Slavonia, as well as the administrative centre of Osijek-Baranja county...

 and finally in Zagreb

Zagreb

Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...

. In 1948 he got employed in Industrogradnja, soon after the political winds threw him to Petrinjska prison. After Petrinjska he enrolled to Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb

University of Zagreb

The University of Zagreb is the biggest Croatian university and the oldest continuously operating university in the area covering Central Europe south of Vienna and all of Southeastern Europe...

 in 1949, graduating in 1955 Croatian

Croatian language

Croatian is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries...

, Russian

Russian language

Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...

 and German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

. Afterwards he remained working as an assistant at the Faculty of Philosophy, defending his Ph.D. in 1962 and receiving full professorship in 1975. He was the vice-president of Matica Hrvatska

Matica hrvatska

Matica hrvatska is one of the oldest Croatian cultural institutions, dating back to 1842. The name is somewhat idiosyncratic, best translated as "The Croatian Centre" . It is the largest publisher of Croatian language books...

 from 1989 to 1992, and representative in the Županijski Dom (Chamber of the Counties) from 1993 to 1997. He retired as professor in 1991.

Selected works

Babić is one of the most prolific Croatian linguists, with over 1000 published works (books, articles etc.). His work deals predominantly with modern Croatian standard language, word formation

Word formation

In linguistics, word formation is the creation of a new word. Word formation is sometimes contrasted with semantic change, which is a change in a single word's meaning...

 in particular.

This listing includes only books:

• "Hrvatski pravopis" (co-authored with Božidar Finka and Milan Moguš
  Milan Moguš
  -Biography:He is born in Senj, where he finished primary school and high school. In the academic year 1948/49 he attended in Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb and he graduated in 1953...
  
  ) 1. edition was outlawed in 1971 (reprints: London
  London
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   1972, Zagreb 1990.), 2 1994, 3 1995., 4 1996, 5 2000, 6 2002, 7 2003
• "Pregled gramatike hrvatskoga književnog jezika" (co-authored with Stjepko Težak) 1973 (later editions are called "Gramatika hrvatskoga jezika", such as that of 1992. (7. ed.), 2000. (12. ed.): "Gramatika hrvatskoga jezika : priručnik za osnovno jezično obrazovanje")
• "Tvorba riječi u hrvatskom književnom jeziku" 1 (an outline for the grammar) 1986, 2 1991, 3 2002
• "Opća i slavenska terminološka problematika" 1987
• "Hrvatska jezikoslovna čitanka" 1990
• "Hrvatski jezik u političkom vrtlogu" 1990
• "Povijesni pregled, glasovi i oblici hrvatskoga književnog jezika" 1991
• "Tisućljetni jezik naš hrvatski" 1991
• "Hrvatski jučer i danas" 1995
• "Hrvatski politički vicevi" 1995
• "Sročnost u hrvatskome književnome jeziku" 1998
• "Crvena magla", novel 2000
• "Vedre priče", short stories 2000
• "Hrvatska jezikoslovna prenja" 2001
• "Prijedlog za ukidanje hrvatskog jezika" 2003
• "Hrvanja hrvatskoga : hrvatski u koštacu sa srpskim i u klinču s engleskim" 2004
• "Hrvatski školski pravopis" (co-authored with Sanda Ham and Milan Moguš
  Milan Moguš
  -Biography:He is born in Senj, where he finished primary school and high school. In the academic year 1948/49 he attended in Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb and he graduated in 1953...
  
  ) 2005
• "Temelji Hrvatskomu pravopisu" 2005
• "Razmišljanja o Bogu i patnji" 2005
• "Glasovi i oblici hrvatskoga književnoga jezika" 2007
• "Rječnik kratica" (co-authored with Milena Žic Fuchs) 2007