Review article
https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.48.2.8
Syntax in Ignjat Alojzije’s and Andrija Torkvat Brlić’s Grammar Books
Matea Sesar
orcid.org/0009-0003-1674-5963
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Osijeku
Abstract
The paper deals with the comparison of the Croatian syntax in two identically titled grammar books Grammatik der Illyrischen Sprache (1833; 1854) by Ignjat Alojzije Brlić and his son Andrija Torkvat Brlić. Since Vjekoslav Babukić’s Osnova slovnice slavjanske narěčja ilirskoga (1836), the first grammar book of the general Croatian, formed the basis of the linguistic norm for about fifty years, I.A. Brlić’s grammar book did not have any significant practical implications. Sharing the same destiny, A.T. Brlić’s grammar book is cited today mainly as the bibliographic entry. It was published in the same year as Babukić’s Ilirska slovnica and it was the first attempt to provide a comprehensive scientifically-based grammar book in Croats. The syntactic description presented in the paper is based on the contrastive analysis. Though younger Brlić wrote his grammar book during the revival movement, many of its features remained similar to the pre-standard grammar books, including the one by I.A. Brlić. This is supported by the fact that the grammar book, intended to be used by German soldiers who learned Croatian, was written in German, while the examples were provided in Croatian and German. As in the older Brlić’s grammar book, its syntactic description was based on the phrase and case syntax.
Keywords
grammar book; syntax; Andrija Torkvat Brlić; Ignjat Alojzije Brlić
Hrčak ID:
299226
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Publication date:
30.12.2022.
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