Education
Pižurica was graduated in 1967 at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, and finished post graduate studies at the University of Belgrade in 1973. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1987 at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad.
(Pravopis srpskoga jezika, u izdanju Matice srpske, do sad...)
Pravopis srpskoga jezika, u izdanju Matice srpske, do sada je najsavršeniji naš pravopis, a ta knjiga je zakon koga se svaki pismen Srbin mora pridržavati, treba da ga ima na svom radnom stolu, a ne samo u ormaru. Izmenjeno i dopunjeneo izdanje. Redаktorskа grupа, u sаstаvu Mаto Pižuricа (glаvni redаktor), Milorаd Dešić, Brаnislаv Ostojić i Živojin Stаnojčić, priredilа je izmenjeno i dopunjeno izdаnje Prаvopisа srpskogа jezikа Mаtice srpske iz 1993. (i u ponovljenim izdаnjimа 1994. i 2002), čiji je glаvni аutor bio Mitаr Pešikаn, uz sаrаdnju sа Jovаnom Jerkovićem i Mаtom Pižuricom. Recenzenti prvog izdаnjа bili su Pаvle Ivić i Ivаn Klаjn, а izmenjenog i dopunjenog Ivаn Klаjn i Drаgo Ćupić.
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Pižurica was graduated in 1967 at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, and finished post graduate studies at the University of Belgrade in 1973. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1987 at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad.
Pižurica is best known as the chief editor of several official orthography books for Serbian, and as the secretary of the Department of Language and Literature of Matica srpska. He participated on numerous domestic and international conferences (onomastics, linguistic geography, lexicology etc). Pižurica authored about hundred papers, treatises and reviews in the history of Serbian literary and spoken language, dialectology, onomastics, standardology and linguistic geography.
He edited Pavle Ivić"s book Serbo-Croatian dialects (Srpskohrvatski dijalekti.
Celokupna dela, volume III).
(Pravopis srpskoga jezika, u izdanju Matice srpske, do sad...)
Pižurica is a member of the international committee of the Common Slavic linguistic atlas, national committees of for the General Carpathian dialectal atlas, committee for the Serbian dialectal atlas, several committees of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Committee for the standardization of the Serbian language, Committee for the dictionary of SANU, Committee for etymology, Committee for Onomastics), several editorial committees (Jezik danas). Pižurica is a member of the Board of Directors of Matica srpska, secretary of Department of Language and Literature of Matica srpska, and a Vice Dean for Education at the Faculty of philosophy in Novi Sad.