Croatian linguist (born 1968)
Ranko Matasović
Born (1968-05-14 ) 14 May 1968 (age 57) Occupation(s) linguist, Indo-Europeanist, Celticist Notable work Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (2009)
Ranko Matasović (Croatian pronunciation: [râːŋko [ 1] [ 2] linguist ,Indo-Europeanist , andCelticist .
Matasović was born and raised inZagreb , where he attended primary and secondary school. In theFaculty of philosophy at theUniversity of Zagreb , he graduated inlinguistics andphilosophy , receiving anM.A. in linguistics in 1992 and aPh.D. in 1995 under the supervision ofRadoslav Katičić with the thesisA Theory of Textual Reconstruction in Indo-European Linguistics . He has received research fellowships at theUniversity of Vienna (1993) and theUniversity of Oxford (1995), a post-doctoralFulbright Fellowship at theUniversity of Wisconsin during 1997/1998 (withAndrew Sihler as an advisor), and also anAlexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowship at theUniversity 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 comparativeIndo-European grammar,Celtic studies , andlanguage typology . His research interests include comparative Indo-European grammar (especially ofCeltic andBalto-Slavic languages), language typology and syntax, and Latin, Celtic, and Hittitephilology . He has contributed to theIndo-European Etymological Dictionary project organized byLeiden University with hisEtymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic Armenian andAlbanian , including theArbanasi speech of the Albanian diaspora nearZadar .
In 2002, he received an award from theCroatian 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]
In 2022, he was elected a member of theAcademia Europaea .[ 4]
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.
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:Matica hrvatska , ¹1997, ²2010)ISBN 953-150-105-X 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,Vladimir Anić , et al. (Zagreb: Novi Liber, ¹2002, ²2004–2005)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 953-220-355-9 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 withTijmen Pronk , Dubravka Ivšić, Dunja Brozović Rončević (Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, 2016–2021)ISBN 978-953-7967-51-2 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 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 Sveti Patrik .Djela / Opera (Confessio sancti Patricii episcopi; Epistole ad milites Corotici) (Zagreb: Antibarbarus, 2004)ISBN 953-6160-91-9 Četiri grane Mabinogija ISBN 953-6522-52-7 J. P. Mallory .Indoeuropljani: Zagonetka njihova podrijetla - jezik, arheologija, mit (Zagreb: Školska knjiga, 2006)ISBN 953061568X Narti: Mitovi i legende s Kavkaza ISBN 978-953-150-898-8 Edward Sapir .Jezik: Uvod u istraživanje govora (Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje)ISBN 978-953-6637-60-7 Ksenofont .O konjaničkom umijeću ;O zapovjedniku konjice ISBN 978-953-6565-29-0 Plaut .Stiho ISBN 9789536565436 Dvadeset pjesama o ljubavi i smrti (i kratkih priča o njima) (Zagreb: Matica hrvatska, 2023)ISBN 978-953-341-250-4 Plaut.Prostak ISBN 978-953-656-544-3
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