Original scientific paper

Pavlinović’s Thoughts about the Croatian Language

Željka Brlobaš orcid.org/0000-0002-1910-2790 ; Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje

Abstract

This article analyses reflections about the Croatian language by Mihovil Pavlinović. These reflections are primarily documented in Pavlinović’s works Različiti spisi (Zadar, 1875) and Hrvatski razgovori (Zadar, 1877).
Pavlinović’s considerations are not a result of author’s philological studies directly aimed at analyzing language issues. The value of these philological considerations is in their relation to a broader context they belong to: they relate to Pavlinović’s national revival activities in the second half of the nineteenth century, and to his striving for a unity of the Croatian language and Croatian independence.
The first part of this article analyses Pavlinović’s definition of language in general, and his views on Croatian in particular. The second part of the article aims at focusing and analyzing Pavlinović’s reflections concerned with the structure of the Croatian language regarding the different levels of linguistic analysis, especially phonological, morphological and lexical levels. In this context, attention is given to Pavlinović’s conclusions related to alphabet, orthography and graphemics of the Croatian language. The third part of the article concentrates on Pavlinović’s attitude to loan words. Pavlinović almost systematically replaced these words with words of Croatian origin. In doing so, he gave his contribution to the lexical level of Croatian. On the basis of his philological considerations, he has certainly deserved to be studied within the history of the Croatian language.

Keywords

Mihovil Pavlinović; Croatian; alphabet; orthography; lexis

Hrčak ID:

116916

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/116916

Publication date:

1.3.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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