Biography:

BA (2000) English Philology – University of Vilnius

MA (2003) English Linguistics – University of Vilnius

MPhil (2006) Linguistics – Trinity College, University of Cambridge

PhD (2011) Linguistics – Trinity College, University of Cambridge

(Title of PhD thesis: The Adjective Inflection in Gothic and Early Germanic: Structure and Development)

Academic/research interests:

– Historical linguistics

– Morphology, morphosyntax

– Adnominal modification and possession

– History of the English Language

– Older Germanic languages (esp. Gothic and Old English)

Selected publications:

(2009) ‘On Some Morphological Properties of the Adjective in Gothic’, Kalbotyra 61(3), 85–101.

(2009) ‘The Greek Sources of the Gothic Bible Translation’, Vertimo studijos 2, 37–53.

(2015) ‘Gothic Possessives, Adjectives and Other Modifiers in -ata’, Journal of Germanic Linguistics 27 (3).doi: 10.1017/S1470542714000233

(2017) ‘Features of the Gothic adjective, with special reference to determination’, in Lingua Gotica. Vol. 3.Moscow: Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation.

(2018) ‘Greek ἀρχιερεύς in Gothic Translation: linguistics and theology at a crossroads’, North-Western European Language Evolution (NOWELE) 71.

(2018) ‘Weak adjectives need not be definite: The evidence of variation in Gothic’, Indogermanische Forschungen 123.

(2018) ‘This is not the same: the ambiguity of a Gothic adjective’, Folia Linguistica Historica 39 (2).

(2020) ‘The (non-)existence of the middle voice in Gothic: In search of a mirage’, Transactions of the Philological Society 118 (2).

(forthcoming) ‘Linearisation of Possessives in Gothic'

Interests:

– Weight training, weightlifting

– Electronics, repair work and construction

– Literature (fiction)

– Classical piano (18th–20th c.)

– Music performance and interpretation

Email: arturas.ratkus [AT] gmail.com