Career
Both his field work and his synthesizing studies were extensive and authoritative. A few of his best-known publications are:
Die serbokroatischen Dialekte, ihre Struktur und Entwicklung, Gravenhage, Mouton, 1958
Srpski narod i njegov jezik (The Serbian People and Their Language). Belgrade, 1971;
Word and sentence prosody in Serbocroatian, by Ilse Lehiste and Pavle Ivić.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1986.
He edited many periodicals and scholarly series, and was an important figure in the All-Slavic Linguistic Atlas project He was one of the most respected authorities on the standardization of the Serbian language.
He was as signatory of the 1986 Memorandum of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.