Načela standardnosti hrvatskoga jezika
Principles of Standardness of the Croatian Language

Summary/Abstract: The author lists several major principles of standardness valid for Croatian:1. Standard norm determines what is stylistically neutral in a language and, therefore, unmarked. 2. Standard Croatian is based on the Neostokavian dialect of Jekavian pronunciation. 3. The dialectal base of Standard Croatian is not binding for it in every detail. 4. Croatian linguistic standard grants priority to those sound forms of Neostokavian potential which are transparent in word-formation and morphological terms. 5. Standard Croatian contains older forms (such as the plural forms for dative, locative and instrumental) as stylistic reserves. 6. Linguistic characteristics of organic Neostokavian have the validity in Standard Croatian of a careful and exacting, even classical, expression. 7. The lexis of Standard Croatian contains, among others, the elements that do not belong to the Neostokavian base. 8. The very principles of standardness of the Croatian language impose the task of determining the scope of applying both the phonological and morphological principles in Croatian orthography.

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