He published several hundred papers, and the following books:
Sava Mrkalj als Reformator der serbischen Kyrilliza (Munich, 1975)
Govor Rame (Sarajevo, 1983)
Jezik i politika (Sarajevo, 1983)
Priče o oblicima riječi (Sarajevo, 1984)
U Vukovo doba (Sarajevo, 1987)
Ogledi o našem književnom djelu (Nikšić, 1990)
A Bibliography of Recent Literature on Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, and Slovene languages (Munich, 1990, with Rada Lenecka)
Književni jezik u Bosni i Hercegovini od Vuka Karadžića do kraja austrougarske vladavine (Munich, 1991, with Ljilana Stančić)
Eine Sprache - viele Erben' (Klagenfurt, 1998)
Bosna i Hercegovina prije 100 godina u riječi i slici - Bosnien-Hercegowina vor 100 Jahren in Wort und Bild - Bosnia and Hercegovina from 100 years ago (Munich - Banjaluka, 1990, with Meha Šoše)
Deutsch-serbische Kulturbeziehungen im Spiegel des Volksliedes (Hamburg, 2003)
Srpski na križnom putu (Istočno Sarajevo, 2006)
Srpski dijalekti, (2008)
Together with Josip Baotić, Miloš Kovačević and Čedomir Rebić, he authored four Serbo-Croatian textbooks for gymnasiums and high-schools in Bosnia and Hercegovina (Sarajevo, 1998-1992). For a number of years he served as the editor-in-chief of the journal Književni jezik. He edited and published several proceedings, lexicons and anthologies:
Das zerrissene Herz. Reisen durch Bosnien- Herzegowina 1530-1993. (Munich, 1994, with Petra Rehder)
Traumreisen und Grenzermessungen: Reisende aus fünf Jahrhunderten über Slowenien (Klagenfurt, 1995, with Klaus Olof)
Dobra zemljo šapni kroz zgnječene vlati : srpska književnost Bosne i Hercegovine od Ljubavića do danas (Banja Luka, 2001)
Terra Bosna (Klagenfurt, 2002, with Ger Fischer)
Lexikon der Sprachen das europäischen Ostens (Klagenfurt, 2002)
Hrvatska književnost Bosne i Hercegovine od XV. stoljeća do danas (Sarajevo, 2002)
Germano-Slavische Beiträge (Munich, 2004, with Ulrich Schweier)
Hrvatska književnost Bosne i Hercegovine koncem XIX. i prve polovice XX. stoljeća. (Sarajevo, 2005)
Kvarner (Klagenfurt, 2007, with Ger Fischer)
Pojanja i kazivanja u skrbna i besudna vremena. Književnojezička baština bosanskih i hercegovačkih Srba pod turskom vlašću (Istočno Sarajevo, 2007)
