In:History of Linguistics 2011: Selected Papers from the 12th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XII), Saint Petersburg, 28 August - 2 September 2011
Edited by Vadim Kasevich, Yuri A. Kleiner and Patrick Sériot
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 123] 2014
► pp. 37–49
The main characteristics of grammar-writing in Slovenia between 1584 and 1758
Kozma Ahačič | Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts | University of Nova Gorica
Published online: 29 August 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.123.04aha
https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.123.04aha
The paper discusses some of the characteristic approaches to composing grammar books and other grammatical treatises in the area of present-day Slovenia between 1584 and 1758. Its focus is on Adam Bohorič’s method of adapting foreign models (1584), on the parallel presentation of paradigms from different languages in the four-language dictionary by Hieronymus Megiser (1592), and on sundry attempts at explaining the growing discrepancy between the traditional written norm and the spoken language – attempts which occur in the revisions of the Bohorič grammar (1715, 1755, 1758) and in the grammatical introductions to literary works of the 17th and early 18th centuries. It is thus intended to provide some basic guidelines for future research.
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