Education
In 1975-1980, she studied Slovak and Russian philology at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University of Bratislava, Slovakia. She defended her Doctor of Philosophy dissertation Relational Adjectives in Slovak: Functional-Semantic Analysis of Desubstantive Derivates (in Slovak) in 1989 (published in Bratislava in 1993).
Career
Since 1980, she worked in the Ľudovít Štúr Linguistics Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava. In 1991, she co-founded, and until 2000, organised the yearly international Colloquium of Young Linguists (Kolokvium mladých jazykovedcov), a well-known and very popular event for Slovak, Czechoslovakian and Polish university students of linguistics and young linguists. She edited a number of volumes of Varia, proceedings from the Colloquium.
In 1999, Mira started her teaching career at the Institute of Slavic and East European Studies, Charles University of Prague, Czechoslovakian Republic, where she has been teaching Slovak linguistics.
In 1999-2004, she also taught at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Masaryk University in Brno, Czechoslovakian Republic. She was awarded Masaryk University Silver Medal for her contribution to the development of Slovak Studies in the Czechoslovakian Republic.
Mira is working mainly in the fields of lexical semantics, word formation, lexicography, syntax and sociolinguistics. Currently, she deals with Czechoslovakian-Slovak communication and language contact.