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Handbook Grammar of the Croatian Literary Language
Handbook Grammar of the Croatian Literary Language, whose authors are Eugenija Barić, Mijo Lončarić, Dragica Malić, Slavko Pavešić, Mirko Peti, Vesna Zečević and Marija Znika, was published in 1979. The first edition was written by authors from the then Language Department of the Institute of Philology and Folklore, today's Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics. The then unpublished grammar of the Academy served as a template. The grammar is comprehensive, methodologically modern and well scientifically based, so it is used by students of Croatian studies. It is the first grammar book in Tito's Yugoslavia that has survived with a monosyllabic Croatian name in the title. When it was published, it was immediately labeled as nationalist and banned for school use. Therefore, Školska knjiga printed it as a professional book, but without the section on the history of the Croatian literary language, which according to the communist standards of the time was nationalistic. The second edition was printed in 1990, also without the historical part, entitled Grammar of the Croatian Literary Language. In 1995, it was published under the name Croatian grammar. In that edition, it was completed with linguistic history, and in 1997, in an edition with a more extensive review of the syntax and semantics of forms, primarily case and verb forms. Today we know it under the same name or as Institute Grammar.
Handbook Grammar is the first grammar that introduces contemporary structuralist and generative settings into the language description in its methodology, so it is also the first to contain:
Since it divides nouns according to the continuation in the genitive singular (Maretić and Vukovski model has been abandoned), it is the first modern grammar that returns to the traditions of the Zagreb school in the division of nouns. In addition to the synchronic description, it also brings basic phonological and morphological diachronic terms.
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