Filologija, No. 81, 2023.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/m16wjcwo29
On corpora of Croatian grammars
Ivan Marković
Abstract
The corpus of examples on which it is establishes what is claimed in the grammar is a constitutive part of the grammar, the selection of the corpus being a conscious act of its writer. Although a lot has been written about Croatian grammars in Croatian philology, we do not have solid data about the corpus of individual grammars. The paper presents data on the corpora of seven prominent Croatian grammars from the middle of the 19th century to the second half of the 20th century: Vjekoslav Babukićʼs (1854), Pero Budmaniʼs (1867), Adolfo Veberʼs (1871), Tomo Maretićʼs (1899), Josip Florschützʼs (1916), Ivan Brabec, Mate Hraste and Sreten Živkovićʼs (1952), and Stjepko Težak and Stjepan Babićʼs (1966). Several constants and changes are determined. For example, the constant increase of the share of oral folk literature up to the grammar of Tomo Maretić, the representation of Serbian writers up to the grammar of Stjepko Težak and Stjepan Babić, the turn to contemporary Croatian authors, which is evident in the grammar of Adolfo Veber, and then completely prevails in the grammar of Stjepko Težak and Stjepan Babić.
Keywords
grammar, corpus, oral literature, written literature, Croatian
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315493
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Publication date:
26.3.2024.
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