Silvana Vranić, PhD, professor

Department of Croatian Language and Literature
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Sveučilišna avenija 4, Rijeka
+385 (0)51 265682, +385 (0)91 2880591
silvana.vranic@uniri.hr, silvana@ffri.hr
portal.uniri.hr

Research interests

• Considering that within the diachronic or historical dialectology an earlier linguistic situation is reconstructed on the basis of field research of contemporary idioms, that is, that the procedure whereby we depart from old texts which serve as models and compare them with the contemporary dialectological information enables us to determine with more precision to which area the analyzed texts belong, for this particular project, besides the contributions of linguists whose fields of study are paleography, textology, history of literature and history of language, the contribution of dialectologists is of crucial importance. The main task of this segment of the project is to attempt, on the basis of comparative analysis of linguistic levels of works produced by the Beram Scriptorium and the data collected during the field research of the contemporary Beram idiom, to determine more specifically to which Čakavian area, and even to which dialectological point, the works produced by the Beram Scriptorium belong (assuming that it was the scribes’ intention to reflect the then contemporary idiom of Beram). However, one must bear in mind the well known fact that many older texts are in fact literary stylizations (such as various codices/statutes, e.g. those of Veprinac, Trsat, Mošćenice, etc.), and as a result they cannot serve as reliable dialectological models for the diachronic approach to a particular organic idiom. But, judging by the previous diachronic dialectological studies of the Croatian language, authors’ interventions can be identified on the basis of comparison to the extant norm. In this regard, medieval texts are less obscure, that is, literary-linguistic stylizations based on one dialect or hybrid did not yet exist at this period. Therefore, once the linguistic similarities or differences of the chosen texts with respect to the characteristics present at the beginning of the Croatian recension of the Old Church Slavonic, that is, to those that were present at the same time when the works of the Beram Scriptorium were created, have been determined, the main task will be to identify Čakavian elements, on all linguistic levels, present in the texts. Considering that the Čakavian dialect was not homogenous, it can be assumed that excerption of dialectal data will be an efficient method of determining the mother idiom of a particular author or scribe, that is, that this method will help answer the questions of whether the works produced by the Beram Scriptorium were used only in Beram and whether they were actually, and to what extent, created there. These data will, bearing in mind the aforementioned methodological caveats, be compared with those obtained during recent field studies and those that will be obtained during the research that will be conducted for the purposes of this project in Beram, but also in the wider area to which this dialectal point belongs.
• In the dialectological literature the idiom of Beram has been described on the level of belonging to a hierarchically higher system. Synthetic studies and reports identify it as a part of the Ekavian Čakavian dialect. The fact that it belongs to the central Istrian sub-dialect of the Ekavian Čakavian dialect was confirmed during a field study conducted by S. Vranić (2005), and on the level of the accent (stress) system also during a field study conducted by S. Zubčić (2006).
• The expected outcome of this segment of the project is therefore a more precise localization of the works created in the Beram Scriptorum with respect to the language competence of a particular author or scribe. In addition to this, the obtained data will also contribute to the creation of a more precise diachronic image of the central Istrian idioms, that is, to a better understanding of the diachronic dialectology of Croatian.

Professional background

• 19 July 2011 – to date: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rijeka (university teacher, professor of humanities, field of linguistics, branch of Croatian language and literature)
• 17 July 2006 – 19 July 2011: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rijeka (university teacher, associate professor of humanities, field of linguistics, branch of Croatian language and literature)
• 9 May 2001 – 17 July 2006: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rijeka (university teacher, assistant professor of humanities, field of linguistics, branch of Croatian language and literature)
• 27 January 2000 – May 2001: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rijeka (university teacher, senior assistant of humanities, field of linguistics, branch of Croatian language and literature)
• 1 March 1994 – January 2000: Department of Philology, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rijeka (university teacher, assistant of humanities, field of linguistics, branch of Croatian language and literature)
• March 1986 – June 1993: Maritime School Bakar, 12 October 1987 – 28 February 1994; Moša Albahari Primary School, 1 September – 11 October 1987; Rade Vranić Petar Primary School, 1 September 1986 – 28 July 1987; Centre for Occupationally Oriented Education of Trading and Textile Human Resources (CUOTTK), Rijeka, 25 March – 5 July 1985, and 2 September 1985 – 7 August 1986 (teacher of Croatian language and literature)

Academic background

• PhD degree on 12 October 1999: doctoral dissertation: Čakavski ekavski dijalekt: sustav i podsustavi, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rijeka (PhD, humanities, field of linguistics, branch of Croatian language and literature)
• Master’s degree on 12 February 1993:  Master’s thesis: Fonologija čakavskih govora otoka Paga, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (Master of Arts, humanities, field of linguistics, branch of Croatian language and literature)
• Bachelor’s degree on 1 March 1985: graduation thesis: Fonologija mjesnoga govora Metajne, Faculty of Education, Rijeka (Bachelor of Arts in Croatian and Serbian Language and Literature)

Research projects

• 2014: General Slavic and General European Linguistic Atlas (project leader: Academician Ranko Matasović)
• 2013: University grant: Contributions to the Studies into Čakavian Dialects in the Region of Western Croatia (project leader: Silvana Vranić, PhD)
• 2007 – 2013: Contributions to the Studies into Čakavian Dialects in the Region of Western Croatia (project leader: Silvana Vranić, PhD)
• 2007 – 2013: Croatian Dialectology (project leader: Josip Lisac, PhD, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Croatian Language and Literature, University of Zadar)
• 2011: Croatian Dictionary of Settlements (Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography)
• 2009 – 2011: Onomastica adriatica (project leader: Vladimir Skračić, PhD, University of Zadar)
• 2002 – 2006: Croatian Linguistic Atlas (project leader: Mijo Lončarić, PhD, Institute of Croatian Language and Linugistics, Zagreb)
• 2002 – 2005: Čakavian Dialect: Northern and Central Dialects (project leader: Iva Lukežić, PhD, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rijeka)
• 1996 – 2002: Dialectological Studies in the North-Western Čakavian Area (project leader: Iva Lukežić, PhD, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rijeka)

Acitivites

Conference organisation

• International Scientific Conference The 6th Rijeka Philology Days, Rijeka, 2006 – 2014: member of the Organising Committee
• Scientific and Professional Conference Life, Culture and History of Kostrena, Kostrena, 2013, 2011, 2009, 2007, 2005: Chair of the Organising Committee
• Scientific Conference Šimun Kožičić Benja and his Glagolitic Printing House in Rijeka (1530–1531), Rijeka, 2011: Chair of the Organising Committee
• International Scientific Conference The 8^th Rijeka Philology Days, Rijeka, 2008: Chair of the Organising Committee

Popularisation of science

• The 10^th Rijeka Philology Days, presentation on 20 years of the Rijeka Philology Days, Rijeka, 2014
• 25 godina Časopisa za filologiju “Fluminensia”, marking of the 25^th anniversary of Fluminensia journal, Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2014
• Jezične značajke paških pučkih pjesnika, presentation entitled: Pažke pučke poetike Nikole Crnkovića, Rijeka, Rijeka City Hall, 2014
• Promotion of the Book of Proceedings Život, kultura i povijest Kostrene Vol. 5, marking of the 300^th anniversary of consecration of Church of St. Lucia in Kostrena, Kostrena, 2014
• Book promotion: “Jezično kalkiranje u teoriji i praksi – prilog lingvistici jezičnih dodira” written by Prof. Marija Turk, PhD (Croatian University Press, Faculty of Humanities and Social Scinces, Rijeka, Rijeka – Zagreb, 2013), Celebration on the Occasion of 2013 Award of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in the Area of Philological Sciences, Institute for Historical and Social Sciences of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Rijeka, 2014
• Dictionary promotion: “Čakavske besede moje i sih mojih z Šmrike i Kraljevice” by Ivanka Bralić, Kraljevica, Frankopan Castle, “Stol” Culture Association, 2014
• Book promotion: Rječnik roverskih i okolnih govora by Kalčić, Filipi and Milovan and Rječnik govora Mrkoča by R. Runk, Book Fair, Pula, 2014
• Poetry collection promotion: Molitva duše by Željka Brnić, Kostrena, 2014
• Book promotion: Zajednička povijest hrvatskih narječja, The First Phonology by Iva Lukežić (Croatian University Press, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rijeka, Chair of Čakavian Parliament of Grobnišćina, 2012), Celebration on the Occasion of 2012 Award of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in the Area of Philological Sciences given to Professor Emeritus Iva Lukežić, Institute for Historical and Social Sciences of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Rijeka, 2013
• Promotion of the Book of Proceedings by Chair of Čakavian Parliament of Kostrena: Život, kultura i povijest Kostrene Vol. 4, Kostrena, 2012
• Book promotion: Zajednička povijest hrvatskih narječja, The First Phonology by Iva Lukežić, Grobnik, Kostrena, 2012
• Novaljska čakavština u Meštrima od sije by Anton Šuljić, CD and book promotion: Meštri od sije by Anton Šuljić, Rijeka, Circolo, 2011
• Jezik pjesama Meštri od sije by Anton Šuljić, CD and book promotion: Meštri od sije by Anton Šuljić, Novalja, 2011
• Book promotion: Govori Općine Ližnjan by Lina Pliško and David Mandić, 2011
• Promotion of the Book of Proceedings by the Chair of Čakavian Parliament of Kostrena: Život, kultura i povijest Kostrene Vol. 3, Kostrena, 2010
• Book promotion: Vitezovi hrvatskoga jezika u Bačkoj by Sanja Vulić, Zagreb, 2009
• O dvama čakavskim ekavskim poddijalektima na području Grada Rijeke, Science Festival, Rijeka, 2009
• Promotion of the Book of Proceedings by the Chair of Čakavian Parliament of Kostrena: Život, kultura i povijest Kostrene Vol. 2, Kostrena, 2008
• Promotion of The Eight Philology Days, Rijeka, 2008
• Promotion of the Book of Proceedings by the Chair of Čakavian Parliament of Kostrena: Život, kultura i povijest Kostrene Vol. 1, Kostrena, 2006
• Book promotion: Rječnik govora Kolana by Ivo Oštarić, Kolan, 2005
• Book promotion: Ričnik gacke čakavštine by Milan Kranjčević, Otočac, 2004
• Book promotion: Senjski rječnik by Milan Moguš, Rijeka, 2002.

Public lectures

• Jezične značajke mošćeničke skupine govora, Katedra Čakavskoga sabora Mošćenička Draga, Mošćenice (2013)
• Čakavsko narječje, sjeverozapadni čakavski kompleks, Susret s hrvatskom dijasporom, New York (2011)
• Kajkavski elementi u rubnim sjeverozapadnim čakavskim govorima, Skupština Udruge Kaj, ča, što, Vrbnik (2008)
• Jezične značajke škrljevskoga govora, Dani hrvatskoga jezika, Katedra Čakavskoga sabora Ljubo Pavešić,  Škrljevo (2006)
• Riječki govori, Dani hrvatskoga jezika, Prva hrvatska sušačka gimnazija u Rijeci (2005)
• Današnja čakavština, Čakavski sabor, Čakavska kuća, Žminj (2004)
• O govorima Grada Novalje, Dani hrvatskoga jezika, Novalja (2002)
• Dijalekti čakavskoga narječja, Dani hrvatskoga jezika, Sveučilišna knjižnica u Rijeci, OŠ Vežica (2001)
• Hrvatski jezik i oko njega, Matica hrvatska Rijeka, Rijeka (1994)

Participation at Symposia

• Morfologija pridjeva primorskoga poddijalekta ekavskoga čakavskoga dijalekta na primjeru govora Kostrene, Riječki filološki dani 10, Rijeka, 27^th –29^th November, 2014
• Naglasni tipovi pridjeva u govoru Kostrene; Šesti hrvatski slavistički kongres; Vukovar - Vinkovci; 10^th–13^th September 2014
• Prilog istraživanju jezičnih promjena u govoru Vrbnika na otoku Krku, Etnološke i folklorističke znanosti u Kvarnerskome primorju i Istri u 19. i 20. st., Rijeka, 11^th– 12^th October 2013
• Contemporary linguistic situation in idioms of smaller urban centres and dialectological points that gravitate towards them in the northern Čakavian area, Standardni jezici i sociolekti u 21. stoljeću / Standard languages and sociolects in 21 century, HDPL, Dubrovnik, Sveučilište u Dubrovniku, 18^th-20^th April 2013
• O gorskokotarskim kajkavskim govorima tragom istraživanja Josipa Lisca, Znanstveno-stručni skup dr. Franje Račkoga, Fužine, 4^th December 2009
• Čakavski elementi u Parčićevu djelu "Vokabolario croato-italiano", Treći hrvatski slavistički kongres, Zadar, 15^th –19^th October 2002

Abroad invited lectures

• Hrvatski jezik njim samim - Croatian language by itself (Incorporating the Diaspora in Contemporary Croatian Studies), Harriman institute, New York, 26^th October 2011
• Čakavski ekavski dijalekt; Filofska fakulteta, Ljubljana, 2005

Awards and distinctions

• Winner of 2012 Public Certificate of Merit of Ličko-Senjska County
• Associate member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts since May 2012
• Winner of 2006 Josip Juraj Strossmayer Award in the Area of Humanities
• Winner of 2006 Annual Award of the Municipality of Kostrena

Organisation Committee

• Member of the Organisation Committee of the international scientific Conference Riječki filološki dani, Rijeka, 2006 – 2014
• President of the Organisation Committee of the scientific-scholarly conference Život, kultura i povijest Kostrene, Kostrena, 2013, 2011, 2009, 2007, 2005
• President of the Organisation Committee of the scientific Conference Šimun Kožičić Benja i njegova glagoljska tiskara u Rijeci (1530–1531), Rijeka, 2011
• President of the Organisation Committee of the international scientific Conference Riječki filološki dani 8, Rijeka, 2008

Editorial Boards

• Fluminensia journal 2014 (executive editor)
• Fluminensia journal 2013 (executive editor)
• Fluminensia journal 2012: papers from the Scientific Conference Šimun Kožičić Benja and his Printing House in Rijeka (1530 – 1531) (co-editor)
• Book of Proceedings Riječki filološki dani, Vol. 7, Department of Croatian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka, Rijeka, 2008 (linguistic papers)
• Lukežić, Iva – Zubčić, Sanja Grobnički govor XX. st. (gramatika i rječnik), Chair of Čakavian Parliament of Grobnišćina, Grobnik, 2007 (executive editor)
• Book of Proceedings as a Tribute to Iva Lukežić U službi jezika, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rijeka, Department of Croatian Language and Literature, Biblioteka časopisa Fluminensia, Rijeka, 2007 (executive editor)
• Book of Proceedings Riječki filološki dani, Vol. 6, Department of Croatian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka, Rijeka, 2006 (linguistic papers)
• Book of Proceedings Život, kultura i povijest Kostrene, Vol. 1 (2005), Vol. 2 (2007), Vol. 3 (2009), Vol. 4 (2011) (executive editor)
• Zbornik Riječki filološki dani, Department of Croatian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka, Rijeka, 2008 (linguistic papers),  Vol. 4 – 9 (member of the Editorial Board)
• 2010 – member of the editorial board of the journal Fluminensia

Bibliography

Books/book chapters

• Govori sjeverozapadnoga makrosustava na otoku Pagu, 1. fonologija, Matica hrvatska Novalja, Novalja, 2002.
• Čakavski ekavski dijalekt: sustav i podsustavi, Filozofski fakultet u Rijeci, Odsjek za kroatistiku, Biblioteka časopisa Fluminensia, knjiga 1., Rijeka, 2005, ISBN 953-6104-46-6, 376 str., Dodatak: karta Čakavski ekavski dijalekt i njegovi poddijalekti, 4 tabele
• Govori sjeverozapadnoga makrosustava na otoku Pagu, 2. morfologija, Rijeka: Matica hrvatska Ogranak Novalja – Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, 2011, ISBN 978-953-6762-41-5
• Proučavanje čakavskih govora u XX. st., Hrvatski jezik u XX. stoljeću, zbornik, Matica hrvatska, Zagreb, 2006, ISBN 953-150-773-2, 185-208.
• Rubnost kao kriterij u klasifikaciji čakavskoga ekavskoga dijalekta, U službi jezika, Zbornik u čast Ivi Lukežić, Filozofski fakultet u Rijeci, Odsjek za kroatistiku, Biblioteka časopisa Fluminensia, Rijeka, 2007, ISBN 978-953-6104-56-7, EAN 9789536104567, 33-46
• O paškim govorima, Toponimija otoka Paga, ur. Skračić, Vladimir, Sveučilište u Zadru, Centar za jadranska onomastička istraživanja, projekt Onomastica adriatica, Zadar, 2011, ISBN 978-953-7237-93-6, 619-635.
• Zasebnosti čakavskoga buzetskoga dijalekta u odnosu na čakavski ekavski dijalekt, Od indoeuropeistike do kroatistike, Zbornik u čast Daliboru Brozoviću, Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, Zagreb, 2013, ISBN 978-953-154-692-8, 519-536.

Articles/papers

• Koliko je fonološki sustav mjesnoga govora Lisca čakavski?, Fluminensia, god. 7., br. 2, Rijeka, 1995, ISSN 0353-4642, 39-59.
• Realizacija finalnoga slogovnoga /l/ u govorima čakavskoga narječja, Hrvati i Mađari u svjetlu prožimanja kultura i jezika, priopćenja hrvatskih sekcija III. međunarodnog slavističkog skupa pod naslovom “Teorija i praksa nastave slavenskih jezika”, Bibliotheca Croatica Hungariae, knj. 2., Pečuh, 1996, ISBN 963 04 6436 5, ISSN 1416 0692, 275-291.
• Udio dijalektizama "iz srodnih razrečjah" u Šulekovim rječnicima, Zbornik o Bogoslavu Šuleku, HAZU, Zagreb, 1998, ISBN 953-154-367-4, 191-205.
• Neke morfonološke (i morfološke) značajke sjeverozapadnočakavskih rubnih govora, Hrvatski dijalektološki zbornik, knj. 11, HAZU, Zagreb, 1999, ISSN 0439-691X, 49-61.
• O lokativu i instrumentalu jednine m. i s. r. zamjeničke deklinacije u čakavskim ekavskim govorima, Riječ, Rijeka, 1999, ISSN 1330-917X, 80-90.
• Čakavština riječkoga prigrađa u drugoj polovini 19. st. u odnosu na današnju, Zbornik Riječkih filoloških dana, sv. 3, Rijeka, 2000, ISBN 953-6104-02-4, 495-503.
• O nekim ikavskim čakavskim govorima uz zapadnu granicu ekavskoga čakavskoga dijalekta, Riječ, Rijeka, 2001, god. 7., sv. 2., ISSN 1330-917X, 58-69.
• Općehrvatska jednadžba /ǫ/ > /V/ < /ḷ/ u govorima ekavskoga dijalekta čakavskoga narječja, Zbornik Riječkih filoloških dana, sv. 4, Rijeka, 2002, ISBN 953-6839-17-2, 555-569.
• Čakavsko u Parčićevoj književnojezičnoj koncepciji, Fluminensia, god. 15, br. 1, Rijeka, 2003, ISSN 0353-4642, 25-42.
• Iz sintakse paških čakavskih govora, Hrvatski dijalektološki zbornik, knj. 12., HAZU, Zagreb, 2003, ISSN 0439-691X, 151-167.
• O govorima čakavskoga ekavskog dijalekta na području grada Rijeke, Sv. Vid IX, Rijeka, 2004, ISBN 953-6066-11-4, 73-85.
• O kontaktu hrvatskih čakavskih i slovenskih južnonotranjskih idioma u graničnome području, u suautorstvu s Irenom Drpić, Zbornik Riječkih filoloških dana, sv. 5., Rijeka, 2004, ISBN 953-6839-17-2, 567-577.
• Iz kostrenske frazeologije, Zbornik Život, kultura i povijest Kostrene, Katedra Čakavskoga sabora Kostrena, Kostrena, 2005, ISBN 953-7073-03-3, 139-152.
• O govoru Staroda, Diahronija in sinhronija v dialektoloških raziskavah, Slavistično društvo Maribor, Maribor, 2006., ISBN 961-6320-35-1, 124-130.
• Prilog istraživanju govora Karojbe, u suautorstvu s Ivom Močibob, Fluminensia, 2006, br. 2, ISSN 0353-4642, 23-36.
• Čakavsko-štokavski odnosi u govorima jugoistočnoga makrosustava na otoku Pagu, Hrvatski dijalektološki zbornik, 14, Zagreb, 2008, ISSN 1330-0695, ISBN 978-953-154-829-8, 119-134.
• Prilog istraživanju govora Obrova, Obdobja 26, ur. Smole, Vera, Ljubljana: Univerza v Ljubljani, Filozofska fakulteta, 2009, ISBN 978-961-237-332-0, 109-118.
• Kriteriumi za klasifikacija na hrvatskite i makedonskite organski idiomi vo dijalektološkite trudovi / Klasifikacijski kriteriji hrvatskih i makedonskih organskih idioma u dijalektološkim raspravama, Makedonsko-hrvatski književni i kulturni vrski, Zbornik na trudovi 2, ur. Tocinovski, Vasil; Georgievska-Jakovleva, Loreta, Skopje: Institut za makedonska literatura, 2009, ISBN 978-9989-886-79-9, EAN 9789989886799, 335-352.
• Naglasni tip b u imenica govora sjeverozapadnoga makrosustava na otoku Pagu, Zbornik radova s Međunarodnoga znanstvenoga skupa Peti hrvatski slavistički kongres, Filozofski fakultet, knjiga I., Rijeka, 2012, ISBN 978-953-6104-83-3, str. 357.-364.
• Pripadnost govora Račica čakavskomu ikavsko-ekavskomu dijalektu, Hrvatski dijalektološki zbornik, 18, Zagreb, 2013, 301-318.
• Turcizmi u frazemima hrvatskih govora (u suautorstvu sa Sanjom Zubčić), Filologija : časopis Razreda za filološke znanosti Hrvatske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti, 60, Zagreb, u 2014. za 2013, 103-145.
• Parčićev rukopisni rječnik hrvatskoga jezika, Riječki filološki dani 9, Rijeka, 2014, 319-328.