Bridget Drinka

Bridget Drinka
Born	1951
Nationality	American
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Texas at Austin
Thesis	The Sigmatic Aorist in Indo-European (1990)
Doctoral advisor	Edgar C. Polomé
Academic work
Discipline	Linguistics
Sub-discipline	Historical linguistics
Institutions	University of Texas at Austin
Main interests	Indo-European linguistics Sociolinguistics
Notable works	Language Contact in Europe, 2017

Bridget Drinka (born 1951) is an American linguist who specializes in Indo-European and historical linguistics. She is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Biography

Bridget Drinka received her B.A. (1973) from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, her M.S. (1977) from Georgetown University, and her Ph.D. (1990) from the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in Indo-European and historical linguistics. Drinka joined the faculty at UTSA in 1991, where she has since served as Assistant Professor (1991-1998), Associate Professor (1998-2012), and Professor of Linguistics (2012-).

Drinka was a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at Moscow State University in 1998, and has been a visiting professor in Germany, Italy, and Japan. Drinka was President of the International Society for Historical Linguistics from 2015 to 2017, and is Associate Editor of Folia Linguistica Historica. Her book Language Contact in Europe (2017) was awarded the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award for 2018 by the Linguistic Society of America.

Selected works

• The Sigmatic Aorist in Indo-European, 1995
• Language Contact in Europe, 2017

See also

• Winfred P. Lehmann
• Joseph C. Salmons
• Carol F. Justus

External links

• Bridget Drinka publications indexed by Google Scholar
• Publications by Bridget Drinka at ResearchGate