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:
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, forthcoming
“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.
Selected pedagogical and promotional publications for the endangered Vlashki/Zheyanski (Istro-Romanian) language:
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