He is the author of Rječnik hrvatskoga jezika (1991), the first modern single-volume dictionary of Croatian.
[2] In 1963 he obtained a Ph.D. with the thesis Language of Ante Kovačić, which was also published in Zagreb in 1971.
[3] Anić published more than two hundred papers, studies, reviews and assays in subject areas of syntax, phonology, accentuation, morphology, lexicography, lexicology, terminology and stylistics.
[8] Other major works by Anić are Pravopisni priručnik hrvatskoga jezika (first published as Pravopisni priručnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika in 1986), an orthographic manual coauthored with Josip Silić [hr],[2] and Rječnik stranih riječi (1999), a dictionary of loanwords in Croatian, coauthored with Ivo Goldstein.
[10] Anić's work was one of the major underpinnings for the online Croatian dictionary Hrvatski jezični portal in 2006.