Identity of the Serbian Language in Vuk Stefanović Karadžić’s “Pismenica” (“Serbian Reader”) and the Matica Srpska’s “Normativna Gramatika” (“Normative Grammar”) Cover Image

Идентитет српског језика у Вуковој „Писменици“ и Матичиној „Нормативној граматици“
Identity of the Serbian Language in Vuk Stefanović Karadžić’s “Pismenica” (“Serbian Reader”) and the Matica Srpska’s “Normativna Gramatika” (“Normative Grammar”)

Author(s): Andrej M. Stojanović
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, South Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Филолошки факултет Универзитета у Бањој Луци
Keywords: Identity; Serbian language; Ijekavian; “Pismenica” (“Serbian Reader”); Vuk Stefanović Karadžić; Matica Srpska; “Normative Grammar”;

Summary/Abstract: This paper classifies the yekavian speech as one of the most inherent linguistic features of Serbian-ness, which convincingly confirms the identity of the Serbian language in Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic’s Pismenica (Serbian Reader, 1814) and Normativna gramatika (Normative Grammar, authors P. Piper and Ivan Klajn, 2013). By subjecting the aforementioned editions to a comparative analysis, it is obvious that the latter significantly narrows down the linguistic identity of the yekavian speech as featured in the former.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 56-66
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Serbian