Ana Šimić (née Kovačević), PhD
scientific advisor
ana.simic@stin.hr
DEPARTMENT: Dictionary of the Croatian Redaction of Church Slavonic
EDUCATION
- 2008 – 2012: Ph.D. study of Croatian Philology (major in Croatian language), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Zagreb, Croatia), thesis: Negation in the Croatian Church Slavonic language
- 2000 – 2006: graduate studies of (1) Croatian Philology and (2) Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- 1996 – 2000: 5th Gymnasium “Vladimir Nazor” (Split, Croatia)
TRAINING
- 2018/2019: whole-life education program Christian cultural heritage of Split and its surroundings at the Catholic Faculty of Theology (University of Split, Croatia)
- 2017: ReLDI seminar Empirical data in linguistics: from research design to data analysis (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
- 2014: Postdoctoral research stay (4 months) at the Institute for Slavic Studies (University of Vienna, Austria)
- 2008: International Seminar on Macedonian Language, Literature, and Culture (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, Ohrid, North Macedonia)
EMPLOYMENT
- 2024 – present day: scientific advisor at the Old Church Slavonic Institute (Zagreb, Croatia)
- 2019 – 2024: senior research associate at the Old Church Slavonic Institute (Zagreb, Croatia)
- 2012 – 2019: research associate at the Old Church Slavonic Institute (Zagreb, Croatia)
- Winter semester of the academic year 2017/2018: external associate at the Department of Croatian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- Summer semester of the academic year 2011/2012: external associate at the Department of Croatian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Split, Croatia)
- 2006 – 2012: junior researcher at the Old Church Slavonic Institute (Zagreb, Croatia)
PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH PROJECTS
- 2024 – present day: Women and the Feminine in Mediaeval and Early Modern Glagolitic Culture (Croatian Science Foundation, principal investigator)
- 2024 – present day: Dictionary of the Croatian Redaction of Church Slavonic (Old Church Slavonic Institute)
- 2024 – present day: Development of the Model for Digital Infrastructure of the Old Church Slavonic Institute – DigiSTIN(Old Church Slavonic Institute)
- 2024 – present day: The First Vrbnik Breviary – transliteration and language research (Old Church Slavonic Institute)
- 2014 – 2024: Research Centre for Croatian Glagolitism (Ministry of Science and Education)
- 2014 – 2018: Theoretical and Applied linguistic research of the corpus of the Croatian Church Slavonic texts with the Dictionary of the Croatian Redaction of Church Slavonic compiling (Croatian Science Foundation)
- 2013 – 2014: Encyclopaedia of Croatian Glagolitism (Ministry of Science, Education and Sport)
- 2010 – 2013: Grammar of the Croatian Church Slavonic Language (Ministry of Science, Education and Sport)
- 2006 – 2013: Dictionary of the Croatian Redaction of Church Slavonic (Ministry of Science, Education and Sport)
MEMBERSHIPS
- Croatian Philology Society
- Societas Linguistica Europaea
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
- Annual award of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts for the highest scientific and artistic achievements in Croatia in 2016, in the field of philology (2017)
- Ernst Mach grant – worldwide (2014)
- TOP scholarship for TOP students (2004)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- ŠIMIĆ, ANA. 2024. Pripovijedanje o glagoljaštvu u novijoj hrvatskoj književnosti. Zagreb: Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada, Staroslavenski institut.
- ŠIMIĆ, ANA. 2022. Non-strict negative concord proper and languages in contact. Translating Latin into Croatian Church Slavonic and Greek into Old Church Slavonic. Diachronic Slavonic Syntax. Traces of Latin, Greek and Church Slavonic in Slavonic Syntax. I. Mendoza, S. Birzer (eds). Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. 233–252.
- ŠIMIĆ, ANA, VELA, JOZO. 2021. From Little Chapters to the Big Questions: How Were the Croatian Glagolitic Breviaries and Missals Compiled? Slovo 71: 121–168.
- ŠIMIĆ, ANA. 2017. Mikrostruktura i istraživački izazovi obrade Rječnika crkvenoslavenskoga jezika hrvatske redakcije. Filologija 69: 99–128.
- KOVAČEVIĆ, ANA. 2016. Negacija od čestice do teksta. Usporedna i povijesna raščlamba negacije u hrvatskoglagoljskoj pismenosti. Zagreb: Staroslavenski institut.