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Mate Kapović

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Mate Kapović (born August 5, 1981 in Zagreb) is a Croatian linguist specializing in Indo-European, Slavic languages and the Proto-Balto-Slavic language.[1][2] He studied Croatian language and linguistics at the Faculty of Arts of University of Zagreb. He graduated in 2003[2] and he has been teaching at the same university since 2004.[2] In 2007, he obtained his doctorate at the Faculty of Philosophy of University of Zadar (Reconstruction of Balto-Slavic Personal Pronouns with Emphasis on Accentuation).[2][3]

In 2010, he was appointed docent at the University of Zagreb, and in 2014, he was appointed associate professor.[4] At the Faculty of Arts, he lectures on general phonology, historical-comparative linguistics, phonology and Indo-European morphology. His academic interests include accentology, sociolinguistics, dialectology and language policy.[5] He is a member of the Committee of Dialectology at the Department of Philological Sciences of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.[6]

He has authored the following books: Uvod u indoeuropsku lingvistiku: Pregled jezikâ i poredbena fonologija (2008), Čiji je jezik? (2011), Povijest hrvatske akcentuacije: Fonetika (2015). In 2019, he coauthored Jeziku je svejedno (2019),[1][7] a book devoted to the phenomenon of prescriptivism in Croatian linguistics.[8][9][10] He has published numerous articles in Croatian and international journals.[3] He is engaged in criticism of linguistic purism and prescriptivism.[11][7] He was the initiator of the annual conference International Workshop on Balto-Slavic Accentology (IWoBA).[3]

Selected works

  • Uvod u indoeuropsku lingvistiku: Pregled jezikâ i poredbena fonologija (2008)
  • O „pravilnosti” u jeziku (2009)
  • Čiji je jezik? (2011)
  • Language, ideology, and politics in Croatia (2011)
  • Ogledi o kapitalizmu i demokraciji (2015)
  • Povijest hrvatske akcentuacije: Fonetika (2016)
  • O preskripciji i preskriptivizmu u Hrvatskoj (coauthor, 2016)[12]
  • The Indo-European Languages (ed., 2nd edition)[13]
  • Jeziku je svejedno (coauthor, 2019)[7][12]

References

  1. ^ a b "Language wars in Croatia and ex-Yugoslavia: Recent developments". allevents.in.
  2. ^ a b c d "Mate Kapović". Matica hrvatska (in Croatian). Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  3. ^ a b c "Dr. sc. Mate Kapović, izvanredni profesor". Odsjek za lingvistiku – Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu (in Croatian). Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  4. ^ "Povijest Odsjeka". Odsjek za lingvistiku – Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu (in Croatian). Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  5. ^ "Mate Kapović :: Detalji znanstvenika". Knjižnice Instituta Ruđer Bošković (in Croatian). 2013. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  6. ^ "Jezik i politika – Mate Kapović".
  7. ^ a b c "Novosti :: Anđel Starčević i Mate Kapović: Tjeranje 'srbizama' preslika je tjeranja Srba iz društva". www.portalnovosti.com (in Croatian). Retrieved 2019-11-11.
  8. ^ Sanja Orlandić (2019). "prikaz knjige "Jeziku je svejedno"" (PDF). Lingua Montenegrina (in Montenegrin). god. XII/2, br. 24. Cetinje.
  9. ^ Ranko Matasović (2019-12-27). "Anđel Starčević, Mate Kapović i Daliborka Sarić (2019) Jeziku je svejedno, Sandorf, Zagreb". Suvremena Lingvistika (in Croatian). 45 (88): 279–284. doi:10.22210/suvlin.2019.088.09. ISSN 0586-0296.
  10. ^ "Lingvist Kapović o "glasati" ili "glasovati": To se agresivno nameće od 1990".
  11. ^ Marija Runić (2016-03-03). "Nema jezičkih granica u regionu". Dnevni list Danas (in Serbian). Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  12. ^ a b "Asst. Prof. Anđel Starčević | Department of English". anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 2019-11-11.
  13. ^ Mate Kapović, ed. (2017). "The Indo-European Languages" (2 ed.). Routledge.
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