Her research focused on phonetic, theological, syntactic, and vocabulary phenomena of Carinthian, Styrian, and Pannonian dialect groups.

In 2003, she was elected a full member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and a decade later, she received the Zois Lifetime Achievement Award.

There, she received her PhD in 1986 with the dissertation, Koroški govori dravskega obmejnega hribovja od Ojstrice do Duha na Ostrem vrhu (Carinthian Dialects of the Border Drava Hills from Ojstrica to Sveti Duh na Ostrem Vrhu).

In Carinthia, she devoted particular attention to the dialect in the works of Prežihov Voranc, specifically in his Jamnico, Samorastnike, and Solzice.

[4] In 2013, she received the Zois Lifetime Achievement Award (Zoisova nagrada) for research on the phonology, morphology, syntax, and vocabulary of the Carinthian, Styrian, and Pannonian dialect groups.