Author:
Lada Badurina, Mihaela Matešić
Email:
lbadurin@ffri.hr; mmatesic@ffri.hr
Summary
Marćel (Marcel) Kušar, a linguist, is famous in Croatian philology for his notable research into
dialectology, but also for his work in the domain of the standard language: he is most frequently
associated with the beginnings of the contemporary Croatian orthographic norm. The theoreticalmethodological
basis of Kušar’s work in linguistics can be analysed with respect to two thematic
frameworks that appear as constants in the 19th century Croatian linguistics, and which serve as
the basis for the contemporary Croatian standard language norm, and more specifically, for the
methodology for establishing orthographic norms: (1) relationship between dialects and standard
language, (2) relationship between orthoepy and orthography. Kušar’s connection to the tradition
of Croatian literary-linguistic thought (foremostly to the teachings of the Zagreb school of
philology) on the one hand, and his openness to linguistic views that took shape at the end of the
19th century, on the other hand, is revealed.
Key words
Marćel (Marcel) Kušar; standard language; literary language; orthography; 19th century
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