Filologija, No. 59, 2012.
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Croatian Language in Vrančić’s Dictionary and Prose
Josip Lisac
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Sažetak
Faust Vrančić is the author of two books inwich language plays significant role. This role is appreciable in his famous dictionary, dominant in his less known prose Život nikoliko izabranih divic / The Life of Several Chosen Wenches. The Croatian language in these works of Vrančić sparked a great interest in researches, from the 19th century to date, so that new insights and general views on the significance and meaning of his work are possible. Giving it the name Dalmatian, Faust Vrančić defined the identity of his language among Slavic languages. His contribution to the Croatian language is great, since he is the author of the first representative Croatian dictionary, and, in the 16th century, at the time of multilingual dictionaries, he presented to the world the Croatian language thus creating an everlasting cultural value and finally, in his hagiographic prose, he introduced mother tontongue words to the context of Croatian narration. Giving Croatian culture such important dates, Vrančić arrived at something that might well be called the early impulses in the standardization of the Croatian language. Faust Vrančić with his dictionary placed the Croatian language among the most prestigious European languages and strongly influenced future lexicography. He, for example, influenced the lexicographic work of Bartol Kašić, not only with the dictionary but also with his prose, and in both increasingly prominent became New Štokavian traits. He introduced many Štokavian elements to his Čakavian , and also brought no less Kajkavian traits, so Faust Vrančić is one of the best followers of the great Marko Marulić, a precious synthesist oh Croatian diversity, an author who saw very well that his language should be known as a whole. Vrančić’s language contains a notable number of archaic but also innovative features, it contains northern and southern graphic characteristics, it is characterized by the properties of all Croatian dialects and all this was combined with Vrančić’s unique effort at the time when one could only hazatd a guess of the future path of the Croatian language in all its essential issues.
Ključne riječi
dictionary; prose; the Croatian language
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98086
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