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Špela Petric Žižić, PhD

Research Associate, Researcher in the project of compiling eSSKJ; Dictionary of the Slovenian Standard Language, 3rd Edition, and School Dictionary of the Slovenian Language



+386 1 470 61 73

spela.petric@zrc-sazu.si

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Špela Petric Žižić is a researcher at the Department of Lexicology of the Fran Ramovš Institute for the Slovenian Language, ZRC SAZU. In her research work, she focusses on contemporary lexicology and lexicography, especially on the issue of multi-word lexemes from a lexicographical perspective. Her scientific research also focuses on lexicography adapted to children, i.e. the dictionaries for school users. She is a member of the editorial board of the Franček portal and co-author or co-editor of monolingual general explanatory dictionaries of Slovene language: eSSKJ: the Dictionary of the Slovenian Standard Language, third edition; SSKJ2, the Dictionary of the Slovenian Standard Language, second, supplemented and partially revised edition; the School Dictionary of the Slovenian Language.

Research areas

  • linguistics
  • lexicology
  • lexicography and pedagogical lexicography

Education, Academic and Scientific Titles

  • 2019–: Research Fellow, ZRC SAZU, Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language
  • 2015: PhD: Slovenski večbesedni leksemi z vidika slovaropisja (A Study of Slovenian Multi-Word Lexemes from a Lexicographical Perspective), Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
  • 2009: BA degree at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (comparative Slavic linguistics; Croatian, Serbian and Macedonian languages with literature)

Employments, Leadership Positions and Competences

Employments:

  • 2010–: ZRC SAZU, Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language

Leadership Positions:

  • 2017–: coordinator of the activities at The School Dictionary of the Slovene Language, which is being developed in the framework of the project Franček Web Portal, Language Counselling for Teachers of the Slovenian Language and the School Dictionary of the Slovenian Language
  • 2017–: editor-in-chief and co-author of the ongoing School Dictionary of the Slovenian Language on the Franček portal and of two editions of this dictionary published as research databases

Work in editorial boards and expert commissions

  • 2021–: Member of the editorial board of the Franček portal

Outstanding Achievements, Awards and Grants

  • 2012–: co-author, co-editor of monolingual general explanatory dictionaries of Slovene (SNB, SSKJ2, eSSKJ)
Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana Prešeren Award for BA thesis (2010)
Keywords
lexicology • lexicography • syntax