
Grammar & Spelling • Language & linguistics
In this book, Ivo Pranjković (b. 1947), one of the most influential contemporary Croatian linguists, brings a lucid, polemical and chronicling panorama of Croatian linguistics from the mid-20th century to the early 1990s.
The book is not a classical history, but a chronicle – a collection of essays, commentaries and critical reviews of key events, books, polemics and figures of Croatian philology in a turbulent period (post-war standardization, purism, unitarism, Croatian Spring, normalization in 1971, the collapse of Yugoslavia).
Pranjković sharply criticizes unitarist tendencies, purist excesses, but also s...
Matica hrvatska, 1993.Paperback.