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A direct, enjoyable and humorous read, and all of this is primarily thanks to the magic of storytelling - Nives Opačić tells a thousand and one stories about every word.
Words are like people: they are born, grow, travel, cross the borders of municipalities, provinces and states, adapt, change nationality and citizenship, reproduce, age and die, and – unlike people, similar to gods – they can also be resurrected.
In this book, Ivo Pranjković (b. 1947), one of the most influential contemporary Croatian linguists, brings a lucid, polemical and chronicling panorama of Croatian linguistics from the mid-20th century to the early 1990s.
Feel the charm, freedom and endearing spontaneity of speech, which with its expansiveness, dynamism and playful violence strongly opposes the norms of the literary language, destroying its framework!
The work Syntax of the Croatian Literary Language by Radoslav Katičić is a fundamental grammatical research that systematically describes the sentence structures and laws of the Croatian standard language.
The publication contains verses from poets awarded with the Olive Wreath at the Croatia Rediviva Heritage Days held in Selce on Brač from 2016-2020.