Summary
Joseph Florschutz: Grammar of the Croatian Language
This grammar owes its scientific level and methodology, as well as its didactic suitability to high school students and laymen, primarily to the author's basic profession and occupation: Indo-Europeanist and high school teacher (from 1908, the first head and professor at the Department of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics in Zagreb).
Josip Florschütz (1864-1916), was also a great Croatist, Germanist and Slavist: He wrote the Grammar of the Croatian language based on the foundations of young grammarian linguistics, consistent with the Croatian grammatical tradition, relying on the selection of materials from the texts of Croatian artistic literature, as opposed to the vukovci and their selection of materials from folk poetry.
Florschütz's Grammar has gone through six editions, and this reprint was prepared by the editor of the edition, Ranko Matasović. according to the last edition published during the author's lifetime (1916), so we can consider it the final version of the grammar that was the basic high school language manual in Croatia for almost half a century (1905-1945).
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