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 Vrzić
Sociolinguistics of multilingualism; minority languages and language endangerment; language contact (syntax); documentation and preservation of endangered languages; language and identity; language activism; Vlashki/Zheyanski (Istro-Romanian), Istriot, Croatian (Bosnian/Serbian).
Co-Principal Investigator, Endangered languages in contact in Istria and Kvarner, Croatia: A multilingual spoken corpus for language documentation and research, National Science Foundation (USA), Award #2220425, 2022-2025 Link
Project Collaborator, Teacher Education about Multilingualism, Erasmus+ Project, 2020-1-PL01-KA203 082136, 2020-2023 Link
Language corpus
Documentation of the Vlashki/Zheyanski Language ('ruo'). London: SOAS, Endangered Languages Archive. URL: http://elar.soas.ac.uk/deposit/0543, 2018.
Edited volumes
Cutler, Cecilia, Unn Röyneland and Zvjezdana Vrzić (Eds.) (forthcoming). Language Activism: The Role of the Scholar in Linguistic Reform and Social Change. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Cutler, Cecilia, Zvjezdana Vrzić and Philipp Angermeyer (Eds.) (2017). Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas, Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Link
Articles
Vrzić, Zvjezdana (forthcoming). About researcher ethics and activism: Reflections on linguistic research in an endangered language community in Croatia. In Language Activism: The Role of the Scholar in Linguistic Reform and Social Change, ed. by Cutler, Cecilia, Unn Röyneland and Zvjezdana Vrzić. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Vrzić, Zvjezdana (2022). Vlashki/Zheyanski (Istro-Romanian) in the 21st century: Language documentation and preservation. Revue Roumaine de Linguistique LXVII (2-3): 279-292. PDF
Vrzić, Zvjezdana (2021). 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. Link
Vrzić, Zvjezdana (2020). Istro-Romanian: A Romance-speaking enclave in a Slavic-speaking area. In Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics, ed. by Marc L. Greenberg. Link
Vrzić, Zvjezdana and Silvana Vranić (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]. In Poglavlja iz romanske filologije, ed. by Nina Lalović, Ljubičić, Maslina, Musulin, Maša, Radosavljević, Petar, Šoštarić, Sanja, 737-755. Zagreb: FF Press. PDF
Vrzić, Zvjezdana (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. PDF
Angermeyer, Philipp, Cecelia Cutler and Zvjezdana Vrzić (2017). Introduction. 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. Link
Vrzić, Zvjezdana and John V. Singler (2016). Identity and language shift among Vlashki/Zheyanski speakers in Croatia. In Language Documentation and Conservation in Europe, ed. by Vera Ferreira and Peter Bouda, 51-68. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. Link
Vrzić, Zvjezdana and Robert Doričić (2014). Language contact and stability of basic vocabulary: Croatian loanwords for body parts in Vlashki/Zheyanski (Istro-Romanian). Fluminensia 26 (2): 105-122. PDF
Selected teaching materials and promotional publications for the endangered languages of Istria, Croatia:
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