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 publications:
Edited volumes
Vrzić, Zvjezdana (Croatian editor) (2020). Linguistic Minorities of Europe Online, ed. by Lenore Grenoble, Pia Lane and Unn Röyneland, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/lme.11697491
Cecilia Cutler, Zvjezdana Vrzić and Philipp Angermeyer (Eds.) (2017). Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Articles
(forthcoming). Nation-state ideology and identity and language rights of linguistic minorities: Prospects for the Vlashki/Zheyanski-speaking communities. In The Romance-Speaking Balkans: Language and the Politics of Identity, ed. by Sorescu-Marinković, Annemarie, Mihai Dragnea, Thede Kahl, Blagovest Njagulov, Donald L. Dyer, Angelo Costanzo. Leiden: Brill.
(2020). Istro-Romanian: A Romance-speaking enclave in a Slavic-speaking area. In Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics, ed. by Marc L. Greenberg. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2589 6229_ESLO_COM_032036.
(2019). 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 Poglavlja iz romanske filologije, ed. by Nina Lalović, Ljubičić, Maslina, Musulin, Maša, Radosavljević, Petar, Šoštarić, Sanja, 737-755. Zagreb: FF Press.
(2018). 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, 33-68, Rome/Zadar: Aracne Editore/University of Zadar.
(2017). Introduction (with Philipp Angermeyer and Cecilia Cutler). In language contact in Africa and the African diaspora in Americas, ed. by Cutler, Cecilia, Zvjezdana Vrzić and Philipp Angermeyer, 1-20. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
(2016). Identity and language shift among Vlashki/Zheyanski speakers in Croatia (with John Victor Singler). In Language Documentation and Conservation in Europe, ed. by Vera Ferreira and Peter Bouda, 51-68. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.
(2014). Language contact and stability of basic vocabulary: Croatian loanwords for body parts in Vlashki/Zheyanski (Istro-Romanian)” (with Robert Doričić), Fluminensia 26 (2): 105-122.
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