Prof. Irena Zovko Dinković

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2021 Full Professor at the Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb
2020 associate on the project SARGADASyntactic and Semantic Analysis of Complements and Adjuncts in Croatian (Croatian Science Foundation)
2016 organized a workshop on negation at the International ESSE conference in Galway, Republic of Ireland (with Gašper Ilc)
2014 Associate Professor at the Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb
2009 Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb
2007 PhD in Linguistics from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb (title of the thesis: Negation in English and Croatian)
2007 associate on the project Theoretical Cognitive Linguistic Research of Croatian and other Languages (Ministry of Science and Education)
2003 Senior Teaching Assistant at the Chair for the English Language, Dept of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb
2002 associate on the project Cognitive Linguistic Research of Croatian and English (Ministry of Science and Education)
2001 MA thesis (Semantic and syntactic relations in ditransitive constructions in English)
1999 attended the LSA Linguistic Institute at the University of Illinois, USA
1998 attended the Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series in Prague, Czech Republic
1997 associate on the project Semantic Fields and Syntax (Ministry of Science and Education)
1996 BA in English and French language and literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
1996 Teaching Assistant at the Chair for the English Language, Dept of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb
1995 grant from the Government of the Republic of France to attend the International Center for the Study of Languages in Strasbourg, France

Research interests

Comparative analysis of the syntax of English and other languages, especially negation; semantic and pragmatic aspects of language; the interrelation of language, mind and culture.

Undergraduate courses

English Syntax – the Sentence

Graduate courses

Psycholinguistics
Syntactic Theories

Functions and membership

  • Head of Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb (2013 – 2017)
  • deputy Head of Department (2011 – 2013)
  • member of the Board for the quality of teaching at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb (2011 – 2013)
  • chair of the Board for the ethical conduct of students at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb (2015 – 2017)
  • member of the Board for the ethical conduct of students at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb (2008 – 2010)

 Organization of conferences

  • member of the Organizing Committee of the conference Migrations, organized by the Croatian Association for the study of English, Zadar, 2016
  • member of the Program Committee of the International conference Istraživanja paradigmi djetinjstva, odgoja i obrazovanja, organized by the Faculty of Teacher Education, Zagreb, 2015
  • chair of the Organizing Committee and member of the Program Committee of the International conference English Studies as Archive and as Prospecting: 80 Years of English Studies in Zagreb, organized by the Department of English, Zagreb, 2014
  • secretary of the International conference Cognitive Syntax and Semantics Courses and Conference: New Theoretical Perspectives on Syntax and Semantics in Cognitive Science, Dubrovnik, 2000

 Editorial work

Secretary of the renowned Croatian scientific journal Suvremena lingvistika (1996 – 2000), Managing Editor of the journal since 2015.

Selected bibliography

Books

Zovko Dinković, Irena (2021). O dvostrukoj negaciji i niječnome slaganju. Zagreb: Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada

Zovko Dinković, Irena & Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović (eds.) (2016). English Studies from Archives to Prospects: Volume 2 – Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (edited volume)

Zovko Dinković, Irena (2013). Negacija u jeziku: kontrastivna analiza negacije u engleskome i hrvatskome jeziku. Zagreb: Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada

Book chapters

Zovko Dinković, Irena (2015). Ekspletivna negacija u hrvatskome, Dimenzije značenja, Belaj, Branimir (ed.), Zagreb: Zagrebačka slavistička škola, pp. 323–336

Zovko Dinković, Irena (2010). Određivanje izravnih objekata u hrvatskome: dva objekta u akuzativu, Hrvatski sintaktički dani: sintaksa padeža, (ed.) Birtić, Matea i Dunja Brozović Rončević, pp. 267-276, Osijek & Zagreb: Filozofski fakultet Osijek & Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje Zagreb

Zovko Dinković, Irena (with Renata Geld) (2007). Perfectives, imperfectives and the Croatian present tense, Cognitive Linguistics Research Series 38: Cognitive Paths into the Slavic Domain, (eds.) Divjak, Dagmar & Agata Kochańska, pp. 111 – 148, Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter

Articles

Zovko Dinković, Irena (with Gašper Ilc) (2019). Subordinate unless-clauses: Croatian and Slovenian in comparison to English. Rasprave: časopis Instituta za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje 45/2, pp. 473–504

Zovko Dinković, Irena (with Sandra Lukšić) (2019). Prividna nereferencijalnost kao način stjecanja imuniteta govornika. Jezikoslovlje 20/2, pp. 353–390

Zovko Dinković, Irena (with Gašper Ilc) (2017). Pleonastic negation from a cross-lingustic perspective, Jezikoslovlje 18/1, pp. 159–180

Zovko Dinković, Irena (2011). Egzistencijalni glagoli u hrvatskome, Suvremena lingvistika 72, pp. 279–294
Zovko Dinković, Irena (2007). Dative Alternation in Croatian, Suvremena lingvistika 63, pp. 65–83

Full bibliography http://bib.irb.hr/lista-radova?autor=247010