Filologija, No. 38-39, 2002.
Review article
Croatian-Italian thesaurus in Appendini's grammar book
Lina Pliško
; Filozofski fakultet u Puli, Pula
Abstract
'Grammatica della lingua ilirica', the Croatian grammar book by Francesco Maria Appendini, was published in Dubrovnik in 1808. Not only »the educated linguistic lovers« were his target readers but also his compatriots, the Italians, who used to come to Dubrovnik and its surroundings for their business purposes. The author's intention was to help them cope with Croatian as quicker and more successful as it was possible. The stated grammar book was accompanied by a useful bilingual dictionary covering almost all its segments. This paper emphasizes the thesaurus which F.M. Appendini mentioned in the second part when he referred to the nouns classifying »the most useful words« needed for everyday communication into semantic clusters, e.g. terms related to ground, water, air, gods, food, clothes …
Keywords
Francesco Maria Appendini; grammar book; thesaurus; Croatian
Hrčak ID:
173305
URI
Publication date:
20.5.2002.
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