(Nie)obecność partykuły pytajnej da li w języku chorwackim
The (non)existence of the interrogative particle da li in the Croatian language

Summary/Abstract: The formation of the modern Croatian language as a result of the disintegration of Serbo-Croatian was strongly connected with Croatia’s intense puristic language policy. The task was to eliminate those numerous linguistic features arbitrarily recognized as Serbianisms. The main purpose of the present publication is to investigate the existence of one such form – the interrogative particle da li in normative Croatian publications after 1990, popular language guides, academic papers and the national corpora of the Croatian language. This allows us to answer the question whether theses regarding this construction put forward by Croatian normativists have any rational justification.

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