Review article

https://doi.org/10.15291/csi.4895

Contribution to the Study of the Language of Ante Kuzmanić

Marijana Tomelić Ćurlin orcid.org/0000-0001-6220-8075 ; University of Split, Split, Croatia *
Tanja Brešan Ančić orcid.org/0000-0001-6904-3867 ; University of Split, Split, Croatia *

* Corresponding author.

Abstract

During the very turbulent linguistic period of the second half of the nineteenth century, the Handbook for Midwifery with the Dictionary of Artistic Terms and Folk Phrases (1875) was published by Ante Kuzmanić, a respected physician, politician, editor, and philologist, one of the dominant
representatives of the Zadar philological circle. The aim of the work is to describe the language used in his handbook through a comprehensive graphic, orthographic, and linguistic analysis (phonological, morphological, and syntactic) and thus contribute to linguistic and historical research.
By reconstructing and describing the language system that Kuzmanić uses in his Handbook, we gain a better insight into the linguistic trends in the Kingdom of Dalmatia and determine which linguistic solutions Kuzmanić favoured and how much the language of the studied corpus differed
from the norm of the second half of the nineteenth century.

Keywords

Ante Kuzmanić; Handbook for Midwifery; graphic; orthographic and linguistic analysis

Hrčak ID:

342389

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/342389

Publication date:

26.12.2025.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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