Comparison of the Introductory Passages of Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian Grammars
Comparison of the Introductory Passages of Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian Grammars

Summary/Abstract: This paper compares different ways of describing the language history of Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks and Montenegrins, and sociolinguistic issues in this regard, as shown in the introduction of some grammars of Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian languages. In the analysed grammars we can observe the following: as far as the pre-standardisation period, views differ mainly in the Bosnian grammar; most disagreements in all grammars appear in connection with interpreting the events of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These findings illustrate the difficulties faced by teachers and students of the history of South Slavonic languages at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia.

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