Croatian Contribution to Karadžić's Translation of the New Testament Cover Image

Hrvatski udjel u Karadžićevu prijevodu Novoga zavjeta
Croatian Contribution to Karadžić's Translation of the New Testament

Author(s): Mario Grčević
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theoretical Linguistics, South Slavic Languages, Philology, Translation Studies
Published by: Hrvatsko filološko društvo
Keywords: Croatian Contribution; Karadžić's Translation of the New Testament; Croatian language; Linguistics; Philology; Literature;

Summary/Abstract: Comparing J. Stulli's entries in Rječosložje with the words which V. S. Karadźić enumerates in his preface of his translation of the New Testament as an example of vocabulary he took from Church Slavonic, he modified to Serbian or of vocabulary he invented himself, shows that the words he names, have already been used in the Croatian literary language. That means that Karadźić 's specification of the source of his words does not correspond with the facts. This should be understood as a hint that Karadźić 's work, on the lexicographical level, too, was not a break with but a continuation of the tradition of the Croatian Stokavian literary language.

  • Issue Year: 44/1996
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 53-63
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Croatian