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Five Centuries of Croatian Literature (PSHK) is the largest publishing project in the history of Croatian literature.
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.
The book is still required reading at philological faculties today because it systematically connects language with literature and social context for the first time. It is written clearly, without ideological exclusivity, which was a rarity in 1990.
A comprehensive lexicon that explains the origin, meaning, and usage of foreign words in the Croatian language. The first edition, created after Anić's earlier Dictionary of Foreign Words (1982), was expanded with Goldstein's collaboration, bringing a lar