Danko Sipka

Danko Sipka (born 1962)[1] is a Serbian American linguist and professor of Slavic languages and applied linguistics at Arizona State University.

Danko Sipka
Sipka in class, 2017.
Born	1962 (age 58–59) Banja Luka, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
Education	Polish Academy of Sciences Adam Mickiewicz University University of Belgrade
Occupation	Professor of Slavic Languages and Applied Linguistics
Employer	Arizona State University
Known for	Slavic languages Lexicography Lexicology

Biography

He was educated at Polish Academy of Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, and University of Belgrade in the fields of linguistics and psychology. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Fulbright program, and American Council of Learned Societies fellow. In 2010 he received titular professorship from the president of the Republic of Poland Bronisław Komorowski.[2] He won NCOLCTL Walton Award in 2019.[3]

Research

Sipka is the author of various monographs and dictionaries, such as Serbian-English general dictionaries for "Prometej",[4] the monograph titled Lexical Conflict: Theory and practice with Cambridge University Press;[5] and Lexical Layers of Identity: Words, Meaning, and Culture in the Slavic Languages.[6] His main research interests lie in the fields of lexicography, lexicology, linguistic anthropology, computational linguistics, and Slavic linguistics. In 2017, Sipka has signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.[7] Sipka is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages.[8]

References

1. School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University. "Danko Sipka". Arizona State University. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
2. "Prezydent wręczył nominacje profesorskie / Nominacje / Aktualności / Archiwum Bronisława Komorowskiego / Oficjalna strona Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej". www.prezydent.pl.
3. "Slavic languages professor is 2019 Walton Award recipient". ASU Now: Access, Excellence, Impact. April 9, 2019.
4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-01-03. Retrieved 2015-03-13.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
5. "Lexical conflict theory and practice | Semantics and pragmatics". Cambridge University Press. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015.
6. Šipka, Danko (May 2, 2019). "Lexical Layers of Identity: Words, Meaning, and Culture in the Slavic Languages". Cambridge Core.
7. Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language, official website, retrieved on 2018-08-16.
8. "JNCOLCTL – NCOLCTL".