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.
While Croatian is genetically the same as Serbian and Bosnian, and some of the books mentioned below also apply to them, this chronology of philological heritage is specific to Croatian. Grammatical features of Croatian, both diachronically and synchronically, are such that no cover term is meaningful when applied to all of the books on Croatian grammar. The most notable cover term is "Serbo-Croatian", which still persists, more due to political than to purely linguistic reasons.
For instance, a diachronical difference is the structure of declension, or the now extinct third future tense that is equal to the future in Russian (but non-existent in Serbian). Synchronically, the number of Croatian vowels differ from the number in Serbian or Bosnian, and the morphology prescriptions are also different.
Croatian grammars before the 20th century
| Croatian grammars before the 20th century |
| Year | Author | Work | Notes | |
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| 1604 | Bartol Kašić | Institutionum linguae illyricae libri duo | A description of Croatian literary idioms based on the Čakavian and Štokavian dialects. Published in Rome, written in Latin. | |
| 1639 | Rajmund Đamanjić | Nauk za dobro pisati latinskijem slovima riječi jezika slovinskoga (How to spell Croatian words in Latin characters) |
(complicated spelling solutions) | |
| 1649 | Jakov Micaglia | Grammatika talianska ukratko illi kratak nauk za naucitti latinski (A short Italian grammar or short instructions on how to master Latin) |
An Italian grammar, written in the language which is the ancestor of Croatian (also containing a dictionary). | |
| 1665 | Juraj Križanić | Gramatično iskazanje ob ruskom jeziku (A grammatical outline of the Russian language) |
A general Slavic grammar based on data concerning the Slavic languages which were available to the author. Characteristics of the Croatian literary language were marked, so that it contains a standard 17th-century Croatian grammar. Published in Tobolsk. | |
| 1728 | Ardelio della Bella | Instruzioni della lingua illirica | In Dizionario Italiano—Latino—Illirico, written in Italian, published in Venice. | |
| 1761 | Blaž Tadijanović | Svašta po malo iliti kratko složenje imena i riči u ilirski i njemački jezik (Miscellany, or a short Illyrian and German grammar) |
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| 1767 | Matija Antun Reljković | 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. With a "Slavonian Dictionary" at the end. | |
| 1793 | Josip Jurin | Grammatica Illyricae iuventuti Latino Italoque sermone instruendae accomodata (English title needed) |
Published in Venice. | |
| 1803 | Josip Voltiggi Istranina | Grammatica illirica (Illyrian Grammar) |
In Ricoslovnik illiricskoga, italianskoga i nimacskoga jezika s’ jednom pridpostavljenomm grammatikom illi pismenstvom: sve ovo sabrano i sloxeno (A dictionary of the Illyrian, Italian and German languages with a grammar and orthography), published in Vienna | |
| 1808 | Francesco Maria Appendini | Grammatica della lingua Il lirica (Grammar of the Illyrian 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. | |
| 1812 | Šime Starčević | Nova ričoslovnica ilirička (A new Illyrian 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 Trieste. | |
| 1833 | Ignjat Alojzije Brlić | Grammatik der illyrischen Sprache (Grammar of the Illyrian language) |
Published in Ofen | |
| 1836 | Vjekoslav Babukić | Osnova slovnice slavjanske narječja ilirskoga (Foundations of the Slavic grammar of the Illyrian dialect) |
First published in Danica Ilirska. | |
| 1839 | Antun Mažuranić | Temelji ilirskoga i latinskoga jezika za početnike (Foundations of the Illyrian and Latin languages) |
Published in Zagreb. | |
| 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 Vara&382;din. | |
| 1850 | Rudolf Froehlich | Theoretische-praktische Taschen-Grammatik der illirischen Sprache (Theoretical-practical Taschen Grammar of the Illyrian 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. | |
| 1850 | Jerolim Sutina / Girolamo Suttina | Principi di grammatica illirica esposti da Girolamo Suttina (Principles of Illyrian grammar, espoused by Girolamo Suttina) |
In Vocaboli di prima necessita (English translation needed) published in Zadar. |
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| 1851 | Andrija Stazić | Slovnica serbsko—ilirskoga jezika za decu u Dalmaciji i u druzih deržavah jugoslavjanskih (A grammar of the Serbian—Illyrian language for children in Dalmatia and other Yugoslav countries) |
Published in Split. | |
| 1852 | Fran Kurelac | Kako da sklanjamo imena ili greške hrvatskih pisac 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 Illyrian language) |
Published in Vienna. | |
| 1854 | Fran Volarić | Ilirska slovnica za početne učionice (An Illyrian grammar for elementary schools) |
Published in Trieste. | |
| 1855 | Ivan Danilo | Grammatica della lingua illirica (Grammar of the Illyrian language) |
Published in Zadar. | |
| 1855 | Andrija Stazić | Grammatica illirica pratica secondo il metodo di Ahne di Ollendorff (Practical Illyrian 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 | Skladnja ilirskoga jezika za niže gimnazije (Syntax of the Illyrian 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 | 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. | |
| 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 (Illyrian) 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 | Tomo Maretić | Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskog jezika (Grammar and stylistics of the Croatian or Serbian language) |