Ph.D. 1999 (Linguistics), New York University; M.A. 1996 (Linguistics), New York University; M.A. 1988 (General Linguistics with the focus on the French language), University of Zagreb.
Zvjezdana Vrzic
Language contact; syntax; sociolinguistics of bi-/multilingualism; documentation and preservation of endangered languages; Vlashki/Zheyanski (Istro-Romanian), Istriot, Croatian (Bosnian/Serbian)
Selected academic publications/presentations:
Uporaba infinitivnih rečenica u istrorumunjskom žejanskom dijalektu i u munskom čakavskom govoru [The use of infinitival sentences in Istro-Romanian Zheyanski dialect and the Munski Chakavian speech variety] (with Silvana Vranić), in Zbornik radova u čast Augusta Kovačeca [Festschrift for August Kovačec], Zagreb: University of Zagreb, 2019.
Identità molteplici e stratificate: concezioni dell’identità di gruppo tra i parlanti del seianese nella penisola istriana in Croazia [Multiple and stratified identities: conceptions of group identity among the speakers of Zheyanski on the Istrian Peninsula in Croatia], in Le isole linguistiche dell'Adriatico, ed. by Lucija Šimičić, Ivana Škevin and Nikola Vuletić, Rome/Zadar: Aracne Editore and University of Zadar, 2018.
Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas (co-editor, with Cecilia Cutler and Philipp Angermeyer), Creole Language Library, Amsterdam: John Benjamins,2017.
“Identity and language shift among Vlashki/Zheyanski speakers in Croatia” (co-author, with John Victor Singler), in Language Documentation and Conservation in Europe, edited by Vera Ferreira and Peter Bouda, Language Documentation and Conservation, Special Publication 09, 2016.
“Language contact and stability of basic vocabulary: Croatian loanwords for body parts in Vlashki/Zheyanski (Istro-Romanian)” (co-author, with Robert Doričić), Fluminensia 26 (2): 105-122, 2014.
Language corpus:
Documentation of the Vlashki/Zheyanski Language ('ruo'). London: SOAS, Endangered Languages Archive. URL: http://elar.soas.ac.uk/deposit/0543, 2018.
Selected pedagogical and promotional publications for the endangered Vlashki/Zheyanski (Istro-Romanian) language:
Favalemo in ruvigniʃ: Manuale di conversazione in dialetto rovignese - Priručnik za konverzaciju na rovinjskom dijalektu [Let’s speak Rovignese: The manual for conversation in the Rovignese dialect]. Rovinj/Rovigno: Comunità degli Italiani/Zajednica Talijana „Pino Budicin“ Rovinj-Rovigno, 2019.
Šćorica de lisica ši de lupu [The story about the fox and the wolf], children’s picture book in Vlashki, Tragovi/Traces Association, 2016
En, den, dire, viro ku mire: Vlaški za djecu i roditelje – Vlashki for children and parents (co-author, with Viviana Brkarić), language learning audio program for children, Tragovi/Traces Association, 2013
Limba de saka zi – Everyday Language: Audio Phrasebook of Everyday Expressions in the Vlaški and Žejanski Language, language learning program, Tragovi/Traces Association, 2011
Preservation of the Vlaški and Žejanski Language www.vlaski-zejanski.com, website dedicated to the dissemination of knowledge about the Vlashki/Zheyanski language, its documentation and preservation, 2010