Syntax in Croatian Grammar Books of the 20th Century

The article deals with the syntactic descriptions of the Croatian language in the 20th century grammar books. The first half of the century was marked by the two books- Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika by Tomo Maretić and Gramatika hrvatskoga jezika by Josip Florschutz. The pap...

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Main Author: Diana Stolac
Format: Article
Language:Croatian
Published: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje 2005-01-01
Series:Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje
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Online Access:http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/14433
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description The article deals with the syntactic descriptions of the Croatian language in the 20th century grammar books. The first half of the century was marked by the two books- Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika by Tomo Maretić and Gramatika hrvatskoga jezika by Josip Florschutz. The paper analyzes authors’ approach to syntax as well as the method of syntactic descriptions used in the mentioned books. The last traditional grammar book, Gramatika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (Ivan Brabec, Mate Hraste and Sreten Živković) was written on the trail of the two grammars. A coherent syntactic description of the Croatian language was given by Radoslav Katičić in his Sintaksa hrvatskoga književnog jezika. Besides from being coherent, it is also the first approach to syntax in the realm of the new linguistic tendencies, with the transformational grammar of Noam Chomsky laying the foundation for describing syntaxes of various languages. The group of authors, members of the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, used the manuscript of Katičić’s grammar in order to describe the syntax in their reference grammar book Priručna gramatika hrvatskoga književnoga jezika. The latter also influenced the new editions of the school grammar books by Stjepko Težak and Stjepan Babić. Nevertheless, the editions in the sixties already showed the shift from traditional towards the modern syntactic descriptions. The survey of the descriptions concludes with the Praktična gramatika by Dragutin Raguž. The second part of the article singles out various grammatical issues and shows the method they are dealt with in the grammar books of the 20th century. It also deals with the syntactic prescriptivity, namely with the syntax in the grammar books currently in use.
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spelling doaj.art-def5a15f1ab04a7596f909e61e1ff6c92022-12-22T02:47:56ZhrvInstitut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovljeRasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje1331-67451849-03792005-01-01311249276Syntax in Croatian Grammar Books of the 20th CenturyDiana StolacThe article deals with the syntactic descriptions of the Croatian language in the 20th century grammar books. The first half of the century was marked by the two books- Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika by Tomo Maretić and Gramatika hrvatskoga jezika by Josip Florschutz. The paper analyzes authors’ approach to syntax as well as the method of syntactic descriptions used in the mentioned books. The last traditional grammar book, Gramatika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (Ivan Brabec, Mate Hraste and Sreten Živković) was written on the trail of the two grammars. A coherent syntactic description of the Croatian language was given by Radoslav Katičić in his Sintaksa hrvatskoga književnog jezika. Besides from being coherent, it is also the first approach to syntax in the realm of the new linguistic tendencies, with the transformational grammar of Noam Chomsky laying the foundation for describing syntaxes of various languages. The group of authors, members of the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, used the manuscript of Katičić’s grammar in order to describe the syntax in their reference grammar book Priručna gramatika hrvatskoga književnoga jezika. The latter also influenced the new editions of the school grammar books by Stjepko Težak and Stjepan Babić. Nevertheless, the editions in the sixties already showed the shift from traditional towards the modern syntactic descriptions. The survey of the descriptions concludes with the Praktična gramatika by Dragutin Raguž. The second part of the article singles out various grammatical issues and shows the method they are dealt with in the grammar books of the 20th century. It also deals with the syntactic prescriptivity, namely with the syntax in the grammar books currently in use.http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/14433syntaxCroatian languagegrammar booksyntactic prescriptivity
spellingShingle Diana Stolac
Syntax in Croatian Grammar Books of the 20th Century
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje
syntax
Croatian language
grammar book
syntactic prescriptivity
title Syntax in Croatian Grammar Books of the 20th Century
title_full Syntax in Croatian Grammar Books of the 20th Century
title_fullStr Syntax in Croatian Grammar Books of the 20th Century
title_full_unstemmed Syntax in Croatian Grammar Books of the 20th Century
title_short Syntax in Croatian Grammar Books of the 20th Century
title_sort syntax in croatian grammar books of the 20th century
topic syntax
Croatian language
grammar book
syntactic prescriptivity
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