Ranko Matasović

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Ranko Matasović
Born (1968-05-14) 14 May 1968 (age 55)
NationalityCroatian
Occupation(s)linguist, Indo-Europeanist, Celticist
Notable workEtymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (2009)

Ranko Matasović (Croatian pronunciation: [râːŋko matǎːsoʋitɕ];[1][2] born 14 May 1968) is a Croatian linguist, Indo-Europeanist, and Celticist.

Biography

Matasović was born and raised in

University of Wisconsin during 1997/1998 (with Andrew Sihler as an advisor), and also an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowship at the University of Bonn
in 2002/2003.

He currently holds a chair in the Department of Linguistics in the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, where he teaches courses on comparative

Arbanasi speech of the Albanian diaspora near Zadar
.

In 2002, he received an award from the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts for a lasting contribution to philology. In 2006, he became an associate member of the same institution and was promoted into a full member in 2012.[3]

Works

Linguistics

Translations

Fiction

He has published more than 100 papers in Croatian and foreign-language journals and translated various works from Latin, Ancient Greek, Lithuanian, Hittite, Old and modern Irish, Welsh, and English.

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