Deklaracija i jezikoslovlje
The Declaration about the Croatian literary language and its implications for Linguistics

Summary/Abstract: In this discussion it is shown what linguistic questions are implicitly touched by the Declaration and that it contests the neo-grammarian criteria for the identity of written languages, which remained overwhelmingly influential until today. In order to know what the Croatian written language, including its standard form, really is, it is necessary to renounce to the dialectal monism that was until now imposed by its theory and to apply dialectal pluralism in which this literary language was dialectally stylized in different ways until it eventually received its standard neoštokavian jekavian stylization.

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