Jovan Ajduković

Jovan Ajduković (Јован Ајдуковић; 10 January 1968, Novi Sad, Serbia) is a Serbian linguist.

Jovan Ajduković graduated from the University of Belgrade, Serbia in 1991. His main research intereset is contact linguistics and Russian linguistics, in particular, study of Russianisms in Slavic languages, which was the topic of his Master and Ph.D. theses.

He is an editor of the international online journal Balkan Rusistics [1] (University of Sofia, Bulgaria) and a member of the Advisory Board of The International Journal of Russian Studies [2] (Ankara University, Turkey).

Jovan Ajduković is best known for his contribution to the so-called "Theory of Contacteme" (Ajdukovic 2004, Айдукович 2004, 2007) and for his "A Contactological Dictionary of Slavic Languages: The Contactological Dictionary of Adaptation of Bulgarian Contact-Lexemes under Russian Influence (Vol. 1), Belgrade, Foto Futura, 2010, 413 pp.", which formally describes the adaptation of Contact-Lexemes under Russian Influence on each level of language - phonetic-phonological, derivational, morphological, semantic, stylistic, syntactic and conceptual.

Professor Ajduković is involved in the scientific project called Codes of Russian Cultures at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade (Serbia). Special part of the project is dedicated to Russian language in contact with other Slavonic and European languages. Research is will be concerned with following problem: the means of implementing and restraining of Russian language influence on other Slavonic and European languages.

Bibliography

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References

  1. ^ Balkan Rusistics (Russian)
  2. ^ The International Journal of Russian Studies (Turkish)