Traces of Mažuranić's Slovnica Hèrvatska in the grammar handbook Gyakorlati Ilir Nyelvtan by János Mihálovics

Abstract

The paper compares the grammar handbook Gyakorlati Ilir Nyelvtan (Baja, 1874, 21881) by Mihálovics with Mažuranić's Slovnica Hèrvatska (41869), as Mažuranić is mentioned in the foreword as the normative model used in the handbook. This comparison will include their terminology, purpose, structure, and normative prescription, and will determine in which cases Mihálovics follows Mažuranić’s grammar and in which he distances himself from it. Since the grammar handbook was published outside the Croatian (ethnic and linguistic) area, the paper will show to what extent the characteristics of the Croatian linguistic norm were preserved in the Hungarian part of the Danube Region in the late 19th century.

Keywords

• i>Gyakorlati Ilir Nyelvtan</i> by János Mihálovics
• <i>Slovnica Hèrvatska</i> by Antun Mažuranić
• norm of the Zagreb philological school
• 19^th century Croatian language in the Hungarian Danube basin