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Ivan Roksandic

Ivan Roksandic Title: Faculty Member, Program Coordinator - Interdisciplinary Linguistics
Phone: 204.786.9078
Office: 4CM19
Building: Centennial
Email: i.roksandic@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:

Ivan Roksandic (PhD University of British Columbia) is a broadly trained linguist with a background in archaeology, epigraphy, history of script, and mythopoeia. His current research deals with indigenous languages of South America, specifically with Arawakan and Jê families. He is interested in topics such as the spread of Arawakan speech communities across northeastern portion of South America, the problems of onomastics in Macro-Jê languages, and the subdivisions of that language family. Furthermore, combining linguistic and archaeological lines of research, he explores the patterns of successive migrations and colonization of the Caribbean islands and the linguistic heritage of different pre-Colombian ethnic groups as expressed in the toponymy of this region.

His other field of study concerns the influence of, and complex interrelations between, mythology and folk traditions, on one hand, and literature, written history, and cultural heritage, on the other.

Courses:

ANTH-2400 (3) Method and Theory in Linguistic Anthropology
ANTH-2402 (3) Morphology
ANTH-2404 (3) Languages of the World
ANTH-3400 (3) Language Typology
ANTH-3406 (3) Comparative Indo-European Linguistics and Mythology
ANTH-3411 (3) Indigenous Languages of South America
ANTH-4400 (3) Language Typology
ANTH-4406 (3) Comparative Indo-European Linguistics and Mythology
ANTH-4411 (3) Indigenous Languages of South America

LING-1001 (6) Introduction to Linguistics
LING-2002 (3) Morphology
LING-2102 (3) Method and Theory in Linguistic Anthropology
LING-2103 (3) Languages of the World
LING-3006 (3) Language Typology
LING-3104 (3) Indigenous Languages of South America
LING-3406 (3) Comparative Indo-European Linguistics and Mythology
LING-4006 (3) Language Typology
LING-4406 (3) Comparative Indo-European Linguistics and Mythology
LING-3104 (3) Indigenous Languages of South America

Publications:
Recent publications include The Ouroboros Seizes Its Tale: Strategies of Mythopoeia in Narrative Fiction (2010), and Cuban Archaeology in the Caribbean (2016). He is currently working on the Dictionary of Pre-Columbian Place Names in the Caribbean.