«ГРАММАТИКА ИЛЛИРСКОГО ЯЗЫКА» (1833) И. БЕРЛИЧА КАК КУЛЬТУРНЫЙ ФЕНОМЕН ЭПОХИ «НАЦИОНАЛЬНОГО ВОЗРОЖДЕНИЯ» У ЮЖНЫХ СЛАВЯН АВСТРИЙСКОЙ ИМПЕРИИ
THE “GRAMMAR OF THE ILLYRIAN LANGUAGE” (1833) BY IGNAZ BERLIĆ AS A CULTURAL PHENOMENON OF THE ERA OF “NATIONAL REVIVAL” AMONG THE SOUTHERN SLAVS OF THE AUSTRIAN EMPIRE

Summary/Abstract: The article attempts to consider the “Grammar of the Illyrian language” (1833) by the merchant, writer and linguist Ignaz Alois Berlić (1795–1855) from a historical and cultural point of view. Berlić occupied a special niche in the Illyricism movement, being a representative of the intellectual thought of Slavonia and the Military border. At the same time, he partially abandoned his native Slavonian linguistic and cultural tradition in favor of a broader “Illyrian” one. The author of the article came to the conclusion that Berlić did not intend to acquaint the reader of the book with the history and culture of the Southern Slavs, however, he assumed that not only “Germans”, but also his “countrymen”, for whom this language is native, would be taught the “Illyrian” language according to his grammar. In addition, the article shows that the first edition of the Grammar was influenced by Berlić's communication with Vuk Karadžić and Jernej Kopitar, while the second edition was influenced by Boguslav Šulek, who, as the author of the article established, was most likely taught Croatian by Berlić's manual. Drawing attention to the fact that Berlić, in the preface to grammar and its reprints, tried to solve the problem of two types of writing “among one people”, associating them with confessional affiliation, the author of the article suggests introducing the term “written-graphic identity” into scientific circulation.

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