Jezik lvana Kozarca
The Language of Ivan Kozarac

Summary/Abstract: Using the novel “Đuka Begović” by Ivan Kozarac as an example, this paper sets out to define the position of Kozarac’s language within the historical growth of Croatian, evaluating his language against Croatian tradition and earlier Croatian writers, as well as against the norm and use of Kozarac’s time. In doing so, the paper endeavors to refute the erroneous opinion that Kozarac’s language is marked by spelling, grammatical and lexical irregularities, and to prove that Kozarac's text falls between two norms, two linguistic systems - the Zagreb School of Philology and the Marctić School - gradually relinquishing the older forms, while slowly and hesitantly adopting the new ones.

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