Rada Cossuta, Full Professor of Linguistics
Interests: linguistic, linguistic geography
Upon having concluded the France Prešeren Grammar School in Trieste in 1969, Rada Cossutta enrolled at the Trieste Faculty of Arts in order to study classical philology. On 26 November 1973, she graduated with the diploma thesis Parole di origine slava nel dialetto triestino (Words of Slavic Origin in the Trieste Dialect). She completed her MA and PhD studies in the Slovene Language Studies at the Ljubljana Faculty of Arts on 25 March 1987 and 5 April 1994 respectively. Both her MA thesis Slovene Speeches of Sv. Križ/Santa Croce near Trieste and Its Environs and her doctoral dissertation Agricultural and Viticultural Terminology in Speeches of Slovene Istria were written under the guidance of Prof. Tine Logar.
In 1999, the Senate of the Faculty of Education of the University of Maribor appointed her Assistant Professor of Slovene Dialectology. In 2004, the Senate of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Primorska (UP FHŠ) appointed her Associate Professor of Slovene Dialectology. In 2010, the same Senate appointed her Full Professor of Linguistics.
Prof. Cossutta’s research is focused on linguistic geography and contact linguistics on which she has published several publications of vital importance for linguistics.The following three works have brought her professional acclaim: Slovenski dialektološki leksikalni atlas Tržaške pokrajine (SDLA-Ts) (Slovene Dialectological Lexical Atlas of the Trieste Province) (1987), the first dialectological atlas of Slovene speeches of the Trieste environs, and Slovenski dialektološki leksikalni atlas slovenske Istre (SDLA-SI) I and II (Slovene Dialectological Lexical Atlas of Slovene Istria I and II) (2005–2006), with the latter being an important milestone in Slovene and Romance dialectology.
