Croatian Shtokavian grammar books: overview of the history of grammar books on the Croatian Shtokavian literary language with an outline of their periodization and classification

This paper describes the criteria for the systematic periodization of Croatian grammar books. These criteria are exclusively linguistic and take into account the phonological and morphological structure described in these grammar books; where the grammar books contain a dictionary, the lexical organization has been taken into consideration as well. Based on these criteria, all Croatian grammar books may be systematized into four periods: I. 1604 – 1836 (old Croatian grammars), II. 1836 – 1899 (Croatian grammars from the Illyrian Movement to the end of the 19th century, with two parallel subgroups: grammars by the Zagreb School and Croatian Vukovians), III. 1899 – 1986 (with three successive subgroups: Croatian grammars from the beginning of the 20th century to 1940, Croatian grammars from 1940 to 1945, Croatian grammars from 1945 to the 1970s), IV. contemporary Croatian grammars. All these grammars clearly reveal the continuity of the Croatian literary language. This language is recognizable and comprehensible in all grammars, primarily owing to its Shtokavian stylization – and not to any kind of “organic basis”

The Dr Ivan Šreter Contest for New Croatian Words by the Jezik journal: purpose, results and similarities with contests in the United States and Germany

Objective: To show the results of the Dr Ivan Šreter Contest for New Croatian Words for the best new Croatian word and compare it with similar contests in the United States of America and Germany. Methods: Descriptive review of the words from the 2020 contest conducted by the Jezik journal since 1992 and sponsored by the Dr Ivan Šreter Foundation. Results: The paper explains the best words from the 2020 contest in detail and provides an overview of all the best words chosen so far. Croatian, German, and American contests are compared based on their selection and inclusion criteria of the words. The best new words are not imposed on speakers but are proposed as an alternative to foreign origin words, or as names for new terms. Conclusion: The competition encourages Croatian speakers to have a creative attitude toward their own language

Sročnost s brojevima dva, tri, četiri

U radu se opisuje atributna i predikatna sročnost s brojevima 2, 3, 4; govori se o pitanju glagolske i imenske dvojine

The Singular Instrumental of Nouns Type i (Traditional, systcmatic and national principles in the standardization of the standard Croatian language)

The paper describes those morphological charactcristics of the standard Croatian language of the second half of the nineteenth century which have a different value and usage in modern Croatian language, with particular rcgard to the singular instrumental of nouns type i in which the standardization attention should also be paid to the lraditional and systematic and not only to the national principle