Danko Šipka

Danko Šipka (, ; born 1962) is a Serbian American linguist and professor of Slavic languages and applied linguistics at Arizona State University.

Biography

He was born in Banja Luka in 1962. He won NCOLCTL Walton Award in 2019. In the spring of 2021 he was an Istvan Deak Visiting Professor at Columbia University

His work The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics (along with editor Wayles Browne) won the 2025 AATSEEL award for Best Contribution in Second Language Acquisition.

Research

Šipka is the author of various monographs and dictionaries, such as Serbian-English general dictionaries for "Prometej", the monograph titled Lexical Conflict: Theory and practice with Cambridge University Press, Lexical Layers of Identity: Words, Meaning, and Culture in the Slavic Languages, The Geography of Words with Cambridge University Press, and Water, Whiskey, and Vodka: A Story of Slavic Languages with Georgetown University Press; 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. Sipka was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages from 2008 to 2020.