Croatian-language grammar books
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This article lists books relevant to the study of Croatian
grammar. The enumerated grammar books give description and prescription of Croatian language
as it evolved throughout history.
Croatian language
Croatian is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries...
grammar. The enumerated grammar books give description and prescription of Croatian language
Croatian language
Croatian is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries...
as it evolved throughout history.
Croatian grammars before the 20th century
| Year | Author | Work | Notes |
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| 1604 | Bartol Kašić Bartol Kašic Bartol Kašić was a Croatian linguist. He wrote the first Croatian grammar and translated the Bible and the Roman Rite into Croatian... |
Institutionum linguae illyricae libri duo | The first complete Croatian grammar describing supradialetal form of Ikavian Štokavian with Čakavian admixture. Published in Rome Rome Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half... in 2 volumes, written in Latin. Served as a basis for later grammarians up to Appendini. |
| 1639 | Rajmund Džamanjić | Nauk za dobro pisati latinskijem slovima riječi jezika slovinskoga (How to spell Croatian words in Latin characters Latin alphabet The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most recognized alphabet used in the world today. It evolved from a western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, which was adopted and modified by the Etruscans who ruled early Rome... ) |
(complicated spelling solutions) |
| 1649 | Jakov Mikalja Jakov Mikalja Jakov Mikalja in Croatian, also Giacomo Micaglia in Italian, , was a linguist and lexicographer, born in Peschici, in the Italian region of Apulia, at that time under the Kingdom of Naples... |
Grammatika talianska ukratko illi kratak nauk za naucitti latinski (A short Italian grammar or short instructions on how to master Latin) |
Loreto – Ancona 1649–1651. An Italian Italian language Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia... grammar, written in the language which is the ancestor of Croatian (also containing a dictionary). Has some bits and pieces on Croatian too. |
| 1665 | Juraj Križanić Juraj Križanic Juraj Križanić , also known as Yuriy Krizhanich, was a Croatian Catholic missionary who is often regarded as the earliest recorded pan-Slavist and anti-Normanist.-Early life, education, and early missionary work:... |
Gramatíčno iskazánje ob rúskom jezíku (A grammatical outline of the Russian language) |
MS., Tobolsk Tobolsk Tobolsk is a town in Tyumen Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Tobol and Irtysh Rivers. It is a historic capital of Siberia. Population: -History:... , 1665. Published: Moscow 1848, Zagreb 1984.. An attempt to write Pan-Slavic grammar based on the data of all the Slavic languages Slavic languages The Slavic languages , a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia.-Branches:Scholars traditionally divide Slavic... which were known to the author. Characteristics of one of the Croatian literary languages (the so-called ozaljaski književni krug, Ozalj literary circle) were marked, that was characterised by the mixture of Čakavian, Kajkavian and Štokavian traits, so this grammar can be considered a codification of that literary idiom. |
| 1713 | Lovro Šitović Ljubušak | Grammatica Latino-Illyrica | Venice 17131, 17422, 17823. Republished: Ljubuški – Zagreb – Sarajevo 2003. |
| 1728 | Ardelio della Bella | Instruzioni grammaticali della lingua illirica | In his Dizionario italiano, latino, ilirico, written in Italian, published in Venice, 17281, Dubrovnik, 17852; as a standalone work: Principi elemetari della grammatica illirica, Dubrovnik, 18373; republished in Zagreb, 2006. Grammar is generally based on Kašić's, but has introduced several improvements. The distinction is made between the definite and indefinite adjectives, as well as the declension of adjectives and the pronouns and numerals. Della Bella tries to achieve a unified orthography, and provides marks of three types of accents (acute, grave and circumflex), and rules governing their distribution. |
| 1761 | Blaž Tadijanović | Svašta po malo iliti kratko složenje imena i riči u ilirski i njemački jezik (Miscellany, or a short Croatian and German grammar) |
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| 1767 | Matija Antun Relković Matija Antun Relkovic Matija Antun Relković was a Croatian writer. Born in the village of Davor in Slavonia as a son of a Military Frontier officer, Relković too enlisted in the Austrian army... |
Nova slavonska i nimačka gramatika (A new Slavonian and German grammar) |
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| 1778 | Marijan Lanosović | Neue Einleitung zur slavonischen Sprache (A new Introduction to the Slavonic Language) |
Published in Osijek Osijek Osijek is the fourth largest city in Croatia with a population of 83,496 in 2011. It is the largest city and the economic and cultural centre of the eastern Croatian region of Slavonia, as well as the administrative centre of Osijek-Baranja county... . With a "Slavonian Dictionary" at the end. |
| 1779 | Unknown author | Kratki navuk za pravopiszanye horvatzko | Published in Buda, offers Kaykavian dialect of Croatian language as literary language. |
| 1793 | Josip Jurin | Grammatica Illyricae iuventuti Latino Italoque sermone instruendae accomodata (English title needed) |
Published in Venice. |
| 1803 | Josip Voltiggi Josip Voltiggi Josip Voltiggi or Josip Voltić was a linguist from Istria.In 1803, he published his Grammatica illirica, in Ricoslovnik illiricskoga, italianskoga i nimacskoga jezika s’ jednom pridpostavljenomm grammatikom illi pismenstvom: sve ovo sabrano i sloxeno od Jose Voltiggi Istranina Josip Voltiggi or... Istranin |
Grammatica illirica (Croatian Grammar) |
In Ricoslovnik illiricskoga, italianskoga i nimacskoga jezika s’ jednom pridpostavljenomm grammatikom illi pismenstvom: sve ovo sabrano i sloxeno (A dictionary of the Croatian, Croatian and German languages with a grammar and orthography), published in Vienna Vienna Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre... |
| 1808 | Francesco Maria Appendini Francesco Maria Appendini Francesco Maria Appendini was an Italian, born at Poirino, near Turin, in 1768. Poirino was then part of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia. He received his early education in his native country after which he went to Rome, where he entered the order of the Scolopj or Scholarum... |
Grammatica della lingua Illirica (Grammar of the Croatian language) |
The grammar points to the supra-regional character of the neo—Štokavian dialect which replaced the former Čakavian and Štokavian literary idioms in southern provinces. Published in Dubrovnik Dubrovnik Dubrovnik is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea coast, positioned at the terminal end of the Isthmus of Dubrovnik. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations on the Adriatic, a seaport and the centre of Dubrovnik-Neretva county. Its total population is 42,641... . |
| 1812 | Šime Starčević | Nova ričoslovnica ilirička (A new Croatian grammar) |
An attempt to come closer to the vernacular by describing the language of folk proverbs; the four—accent system of the Ikavian variant of the Štokavian dialect was described for the first time; published in Triest. |
| 1833 | Ignjat Alojzije Brlić | Grammatik der illyrischen Sprache (Grammar of the Croatian language) |
Published in Buda Buda For detailed information see: History of Buda CastleBuda is the western part of the Hungarian capital Budapest on the west bank of the Danube. The name Buda takes its name from the name of Bleda the Hun ruler, whose name is also Buda in Hungarian.Buda comprises about one-third of Budapest's... . |
| 1836 | Vjekoslav Babukić | Osnova slovnice slavjanske narječja ilirskoga (Foundations of the Slavic grammar of the Croatian dialect) |
First published in Danica Ilirska. |
| 1839 | Antun Mažuranić | Temelji ilirskoga i latinskoga jezika za početnike (Foundations of the Croatian and Latin languages) |
Published in Zagreb Zagreb Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city... . |
| 1843 | Ilija Rukavina Ljubački | Abanderungs — und Abwandlungs: Formen nebst den Regeln der Aussprache und Rechtschreibung (Changes and modifications. Forms, together with the rules of the discussion and orthography.) |
Published in Trieste. |
| 1847 | Lavoslav Furholzer | Horvatsko-slavonska slovnica za početnike (A Croatian-Slavonian grammar for beginners) |
Published in Varaždin Varaždin Varaždin is a city in north Croatia, north of Zagreb on the highway A4. The total population is 47,055, with 38,746 on of the city settlement itself . The centre of Varaždin county is located near the Drava river, at... . |
| 1850 | Rudolf Froehlich | Theoretische-praktische Taschen-Grammatik der illirischen Sprache (Theoretical-practical Pocket Grammar of the Croatian Language) |
Published in Vienna. |
| 1850 | Andrija Stazić | Grammatica della lingua illirica ad uso degli amatori nazionali e stranieri che bramano d’impararla (Grammar of the Illirian language for the use of nationals and foreign amateurs who wish to speak it) |
Published in Zadar Zadar Zadar is a city in Croatia on the Adriatic Sea. It is the centre of Zadar county and the wider northern Dalmatian region. Population of the city is 75,082 citizens... . |
| 1850 | Jerolim Sutina / Girolamo Suttina | Principi di grammatica illirica esposti da Girolamo Suttina (Principles of Croatian grammar, espoused by Girolamo Suttina) |
In Vocaboli di prima necessita (English translation needed) published in Zadar. |
| 1851 | Andrija Stazić | Slovnica serbsko—ilirskoga jezika za decu u Dalmaciji i u druzih deržavah jugoslavjanskih (A grammar of the Serbian—Croatian language for children in Dalmatia and other Southern Slavic countries) |
Published in Split Split (city) Split is a Mediterranean city on the eastern shores of the Adriatic Sea, centered around the ancient Roman Palace of the Emperor Diocletian and its wide port bay. With a population of 178,192 citizens, and a metropolitan area numbering up to 467,899, Split is by far the largest Dalmatian city and... . |
| 1852 | Fran Kurelac | Kako da sklanjamo imena ili greške hrvatskih pisaca glede sklonovanja 2—A padeža množine (How to decline nouns, or mistakes of Croatian writers with respect to the second case plural) |
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| 1854 | Andrija Torkvat Brlić | Grammatik der illyrischen Sprache (Grammar of the Croatian language) |
Published in Vienna. |
| 1854 | Fran Volarić | Ilirska slovnica / sastavi Věkoslav Babukić | Printed in Zagreb, in a printing press of Ljudevit Gaj. |
| 1836 | Vjekoslav Babukić | Osnova slovnice slavjanske narječja ilirskoga (Foundations of the Slavic grammar of the Croatian dialect) |
First published in Danica Ilirska. |
| 1855 | Ivan Danilo | Grammatica della lingua illirica (Grammar of the Croatian language) |
Published in Zadar. |
| 1855 | Andrija Stazić | Grammatica illirica pratica secondo il metodo di Ahne di Ollendorff (Practical Croatian grammar according to the method of Ahne di Ollendorff) |
Published in Split. |
| 1859 | Antun Mažuranić | Slovnica hervatska (A Croatian grammar) |
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| 1859 | Adolfo Veber Tkalčević Adolfo Veber Tkalcevic Adolfo Veber Tkalčević , Croatian philologist, writer, literary critic and aestheticist.He received degrees in philosophy in Zagreb, theology in Budapest and Slavistics in Vienna.... |
Skladnja ilirskoga jezika za niže gimnazije (Syntax of the Croatian language for secondary schools) |
Published in Vienna. |
| 1860 | Vinko Pacel | Slovnica jezika Hrvatskoga ili Srbskoga (A grammar of the Croatian or Serbian language) |
Published in Zagreb. |
| 1862 | Adolfo Veber Tkalčević | Slovnica za četvrti razred katoličkih glavnih učionah u Carevini austrijanskoj (A grammar for the fourth class of Catholic schools in the Austrian Empire) |
Published in Vienna. |
| 1864 | Vatroslav Jagić Vatroslav Jagic Vatroslav Jagić was a Croatian language researcher and a famous expert in Slavic languages in the second half of the 19th century.-Life:... |
Gramatika jezika hervackoga (A grammar of the Croatian language) |
Published in Zagreb. |
| 1865 | Vinko Pacel | Oblici književne hrvaštine (Forms of the Croatian literary heritage) |
Published in Karlovac Karlovac Karlovac is a city and municipality in central Croatia. The city proper has a population of 49,082, while the municipality has a population of 59,395 inhabitants .Karlovac is the administrative centre of Karlovac County... . |
| 1867 | Pero Budmani | Grammatica della lingua serbo—croata (Grammar of the Serbo-Croatian language) |
First use of the term "Serbo—Croatian" in a title of a grammar book. |
| 1869 | Paul Pierre | Abrege de grammaire francaise—croate et de dictionnaire francais—croate Summary of French-Croatian Grammar and French-Croatian Dictionary |
Published in Zagreb. |
| 1871 | Adolfo Veber Tkalčević | Slovnica hervatska za srednja učilišta (A Croatian grammar for secondary schools) |
Published in Zagreb. |
| 1873 | Ivan Danilo | Slovnica za srednja učilišta nižega reda (A grammar for lower secondary schools) |
Published in Zadar. |
| 1873 | Dragutin Parčić | Grammatica della lingua slava (illirica) (Grammar of the Slavic (Croatian) Language) |
"Compiled by P. Carlo A. Parčić." Published in Zadar. |
| 1879 | Mirko Divković | Hrvatske gramatike I. dio. Oblici. (Croatian grammar. Part I. Forms) |
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| 1880 | Mirko Divković | Nauka o izreci (Sentence grammar) |
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| 1880 | Josip Vitanović | Gramatika hrvatskoga jezika (Grammar of the Croatian language) |
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| 1881 | Mirko Divković | Hrvatske gramatike II. dio. Sintaksa za školu (Croatian grammar. Part II. Syntax for schools) |
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| 1893 | Rudolf Strohal | Hrvatska slovnica (Croatian grammar) |
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| 1899 | Tomislav Maretić Tomislav Maretic Tomislav Maretić was a Croatian linguist and lexicographer.He attended primary school in Virovitica and the gymnasium in Varaždin, Požega and Zagreb... |
Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskog jezika (Grammar and stylistics of the Croatian or Serbian language) |
Croatian grammars in 20th century
| Year | Author | Work | Notes |
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| 1903 | Mirko Divković | Oblici i sintaksa hrvatskoga jezika za srednje škole (Forms and syntax of Croatian language for schools) |
2nd ed 1908 |
| 1905 | Josip Florschütz | Gramatika hrvatskog jezika za ženski licej, preparandije i više pučke škole (Grammar of Croatian language...) |
editions 1907, 1916, 1921, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1950, reprint 2002. |
| 1916 | Milan Rešetar Milan Rešetar Milan Rešetar was a Serb-Catholic, linguist, Ragusologist, historian and literary critic.After the gymnasium in Dubrovnik, he attained studies of classic Philology and Slavistics in Vienna... |
Elementar-Grammatik der kroatischen (serbischen) Sprache (Basic grammar of Croatian (Serbian) language) |
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| 1944 | Blaž Jurišić | Nacrt hrvatske slovnice. I. Glasovi i oblici u poviestnom razvoju | |
| 1952 | Ivan Brabec - Mate Hraste - Sreten Živković | Gramatika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (Grammar of Croatian or Serbian language) |
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| 1966 | Stjepko Težak - Stjepan Babić | Pregled gramatike hrvatskosrpskog jezika (Overview of grammar of Croatoserbian language) |
same book reprinted in 2003. as Gramatika hrvatskoga jezika - priručnik za osnovno jezično obrazovanje - (Grammar of Croatian language - handbook for elementary language education) |
| 1967 | Josip Hamm Josip Hamm Josip Hamm was a Croatian Slavist.-Biography:Hamm was born in the village of Gat near Belišće and Valpovo. In 1924 he finished the classical gymnasium in Osijek, and in 1929 he graduated in Slavic and Germanic studies at the University of Zagreb.He worked as a lecturer at the gymnasiums in... |
Kratka gramatika hrvatskoga književnog jezika za strance | |
| 1971 | Slavko Pavešić - Zlatko Vince | Gramatika, u: Jezični savjetnik s gramatikom | |
| 1979 | Eugenija Barić - Mijo Lončarić - Dragica Malić - Slavko Pavešić - Mirko Peti - Vesna Zečević - Marija Znika | Priručna gramatika hrvatskoga književnog jezika | reprinted as Gramatika hrvatskoga književnog jezika 1990, and Hrvatska gramatika 1995, 1997 |
| 1986 | Stjepan Babić Stjepan Babic Stjepan Babić is a Croatian linguist and academic.-Biography:He was born in the small town of Oriovac in Brod-Posavina County, even though his biological parents are from Hrvatsko Zagorje. He attended primary school in Oriovac, and gymnasium in Slavonski Brod, Osijek and finally in Zagreb... |
Tvorba riječi u hrvatskom književnom jeziku. Nacrt za gramatiku (Word formation in literary Croatian language. Design for grammar) |
2nd edition 1991 |
| 1986 | Radoslav Katičić Radoslav Katicic Radoslav Katičić is a Croatian linguist, classical philologist, Indo-Europeanist, Slavist and Indologist, one of the most prominent Croatian scholars in the field of humanities.-Biography:... |
Sintaksa hrvatskoga književnog jezika. Nacrt za gramatiku | 2nd edition 1991 |
| 1991 | Stjepan Babić - Dalibor Brozović Dalibor Brozovic Dalibor Brozović was a Croatian linguist, Slavist, dialectologist and politician. He studied the history of standard Slavic languages, especially Croatian. He was an active Esperantist since 1946, and wrote Esperanto poetry as well as translated works into the language. -Life and career:He was... - Milan Moguš - Slavko Pavešić - Ivo Škarić - Stjepan Težak |
Povijesni pregled, glasovi i oblici hrvatskoga književnog jezika. Nacrti za gramatiku | |
| 1997 | Dragutin Raguž | Praktična hrvatska gramatika (Practical Croatian grammar) |