Ranko Matasović
Ranko Matasović | |
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Nationality | Croatian |
Occupation(s) | linguist, Indo-Europeanist, Celticist |
Notable work | Etymological 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
- A Theory of Textual Reconstruction in Indo-European Linguistics (Frankfurt a/M & New York: Peter Lang, 1996) ISBN 3-631-49751-2
- Kratka poredbenopovijesna gramatika latinskoga jezika [A Short Comparative-Historical Grammar of Latin] (Zagreb: ISBN 978-953-150-901-5
- Kultura i književnost Hetita [Hittite Culture and Literature] (Zagreb; Matica hrvatska, 2000) ISBN 953-15-0548-9
- Uvod u poredbenu lingvistiku [An Introduction to Comparative Linguistics] (Zagreb: Matica hrvatska, 2001) ISBN 953-150-612-4
- Hrvatski enciklopedijski rječnik [Encyclopedic Dictionary of Croatian], co-edited with Ljiljana Jojić, ISBN 953-6045-21-4
- Gender in Indo-European (Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 2004) ISBN 3-8253-1666-1
- Jezična raznolikost svijeta [Linguistic Diversity of the World] (Zagreb: Algoritam, ¹2005, ²2011) ISBN 978-953-220-355-4
- Poredbenopovijesna gramatika hrvatskoga jezika [A Comparative-Historical Grammar of Croatian] (Zagreb: Matica hrvatska, 2008.) ISBN 978-953-150-840-7
- Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2009) ISBN 978-90-04-17336-1
- A Reader in Comparative Indo-European Religion (Zagreb: University of Zagreb, 2010)
- Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika: 1. svezak (A-Nj), 2. svezak (O-Ž) [Etymological Dictionary of Croatian Language], edited, co-authored with ISBN 978-953-7967-85-7
- Slavic Nominal Word-Formation: Proto-Indo-European Origins and Historical Development (Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 2014) ISBN 978-3-8253-6335-2
- Lingvistička povijest Europe [Linguistic History of Europe] (Zagreb: Matica hrvatska, 2016) ISBN 9789533410616
- An Areal Typology of Agreement Systems (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018) ISBN 978-1-108-42097-6
Translations
- Harfa sa sjevera. Iz irske književnosti (Zagreb: Antibarbarus, 1995) ISBN 953-6160-25-0
- Koje je vrijeme? Suvremena irska pripovijetka (Zagreb: Matica hrvatska, 1997) ISBN 953-6014-96-3
- Kamen kraljeva. Srednjovjekovne irske sage (Zagreb: Ex Libris, 2004) ISBN 953-6310-35-X
- ISBN 953-6160-91-9
- ISBN 953-6522-52-7
- ISBN 953061568X
- ISBN 978-953-150-898-8
- ISBN 978-953-6637-60-7
- ISBN 978-953-6565-29-0
- ISBN 9789536565436
- Dvadeset pjesama o ljubavi i smrti (i kratkih priča o njima) (Zagreb: Matica hrvatska, 2023) ISBN 978-953-341-250-4
- Plaut. ISBN 978-953-656-544-3
Fiction
- Neprobuđeni. Roman (Zagreb: Ibis grafika, 2022) ISBN 978-953-363-099-1
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.
References
- ISBN 953-6045-21-4. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
- ISBN 953-6045-21-4. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
- ^ "Akademik Ranko Matasović". Info.hazu.hr. Retrieved 2023-11-30.
External links
- Personal web page of Ranko Matasović
- (in Croatian) A Conversation with R. Matasović, Vijenac, November 6, 2008