Kontaktna sinonimija u glagoljskim rukopisima zadarskoga kraja iz 17. i 18. stoljeća
Contact Synonymity in the Glagolitic Manuscripts of Zadar Region of the 17th and 18th Centuries

Author(s): Ivica Vigato
Subject(s): Cultural history, Other Language Literature, South Slavic Languages, 17th Century, 18th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: contact synonymity; Glagolitic manuscripts; 17th and 18th centuries; Zadar region
Summary/Abstract: It is known that contact synonymity, as an instrument of bypassing dialectical discrepancies, was frequently present in older Croatian writings. In this work the author is discovering examples of contact synonymity in glagolitic manuscripts of Zadar region of the 17th and 18th centuries which belong to administrative functional style. With them it was endeavoured to overcome uneven terminology which was, on the one hand, understandable to the inhabitants of the area where the records were noted or referred and, on the other hand, understandable to the officials of the institutions who were controlling, approving and referring those records. Namely, in the consciousness of the clerks there existed the model, the template of writing synonyms in contact, which was certainly seen in some older codices which those clerks were using in texts of different contents and purposes. That is why, the author concludes, the use of contact synonymity is so firmly interwoven in the foundation of the Croatian language.

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