Živiti i goriti pored živjeti i gorjeti
‘Ziviti’ and ‘goriti’ alongside with ‘zivjeti’ and ‘gorjeti’

Summary/Abstract: Taking into account one by one, socio-linguistic, and structural, and symbolic aspect of the standardization of Bosnian language, an argumentation is presented here for prescribing the grammatical, lexical and spelling norm of denominal verbs of the type 'goriti/gorjeti', 'ziviti/zivjeti', 'viditi/vidjeti' and similarly, concerning the doublet 'i/je'- forms as the most suitable solution to the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Standardization of the treated verbs in both variants would imply certain adjustment of the standard norm to the Bosnian organic idiom, and, at the same time, it would not decrease the semantic potential of these verbs, nor it would make any communication impediments, since the equal usage, or even, the preference of one or the other form would be left to a free choice of the standard users, as in many other cases.

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