Josip Lisac

Josip Lisac (born 23 November 1950), is a Croatian linguist and dialectologist.

Biography
Lisac was born in 1950 in Turni near Delnice, Gorski Kotar. After graduating in philosophy and Yugoslav studies at the University of Zadar in 1974, he received a PhD at the same institution in 1986, with a thesis on the Kajkavian dialects of Gorski Kotar.

In 1978, after working as a journalist for four years immediately after graduation, he returned to the Faculty of Philosophy in Zadar to work as an assistant. In 1987, he received the title of docent. In 1989, he became an associate professor, and, in 1997, received regular professorship followed by permanent professorship in 2002. He teaches or has taught several post-graduate courses on linguistics, and serves as a head of the post-graduate course in linguistics at the University of Zadar. At the same university, he was the first head of the Department for Croatian and Slavic Studies. In 2004, he became an associate member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Work
His chief scientific interest is in dialectology and in the history of Croatian. He contributed to several international projects on linguistic geography. He has published approximately a thousand bibliographical units, including several books:


 * Fonološki opisi srpskohrvatskih / hrvatskosrpskih, slovenačkih i makedonskih govora obuhvaćenih Opšteslovenskim lingvističkim atlasom, Sarajevo, 1981 (as a contributor)
 * Hrvatska drama do narodnog preporoda (co-authored with Slobodan Prosperov Novak), I-II, Split, 1984
 * Hrvatski jezik i njegovi proučavatelji, Split, 1994
 * Hrvatski dijalekti i jezična povijest, Zagreb, 1996;
 * Poezija Dragutina Domjanića; Z mojih bregov Frana Galovića; Ognji i rože Ivana Gorana Kovačića (with Miroslav Šicel and Dunja Detoni-Dujmić), Zagreb, 1996
 * Hrvatski govori, filolozi, pisci, Zagreb, 1999
 * Dalibor Brozović, dobitnik nagrade "Stjepan Ivšić, Zagreb - Zadar, 2002
 * Hrvatska dijalektologija 1. Hrvatski dijalekti i govori štokavskog narječja i hrvatski govori torlačkog narječja, Zagreb, 2003
 * Faust Vrančić i drugi, Šibenik, 2004
 * Tragom zavičaja. Delnički govor i govor Gornjih Turni u svjetlosti goranskih kajkavskih govora, Split, 2006
 * Hrvatska dijalektologija 2 - Čakavsko narječje, Zagreb, 2009

With Dunja Fališevac and Darko Novaković, Lisac edited the anthology Hrvatska književna baština (2002–2005). At the University of Zadar, he was the initiator and the editor-in-chief of the journal Croatica et Slavica Iadertina. He currently serves as an editor of the magazine Čakavska rič and also collaborates on the publications of the Miroslav Krleža Lexicographical Institute. He edited reprints of many of the works of Croatian writers and philologists, including (Faust Vrančić, Jakov Pletikosa, Stjepan Ivšić, Vinko Nikolić, Zlatko Pochobradsky). In collaboration with sister Terezija Zemljić, he published a chronicle of Šibenik's female Franciscans Knjigu od uspomene (Šibenik, 2005).