Croatian Language Adviser

     Croatian Language Adviser published by the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, Skolske novine and Pergamena is the work of 12 authors. The aim of this book, which has 1666 pages, is to try to solve all language problems on all language levels, from accentuation and orthography to morphological, lexical and syntactical problems. The book consists of two main parts. In the first part the authors give theoretical explanation of various problems on all language levels and explain the theoretical conception and practical solutions of the Adviser.

     The second part of the Adviser is a dictionary that has 81000 entries. It deals with all words which can present a problem for Croatian speakers, i.e. words that have orthographic problems, e.g. rendgen (not rentgen or rengen), potpredsjednik (not podpredsjednik), Madjar (better than Madzar); lexical problems e.g. words of foreign origin which can be replaced by Croatian words: informacija – obavijest, paginacija – obrojcivanje, oficir – casnik; words which do not belong to standard Croatian uslov (this sing means “must be replaced by”) uvjet, preduzetnik poduzetnik etc.; words which can be accentuated in more than one way, words which have some morphological problems e.g. kabel plural kabeli (not kablovi), Podravka dativ Podravci (if it is an enterprise) and Podravki (if it is a woman form Podravina) and syntactic problems.

     This book is very useful for all writing in standard Croatian, especially translators, writers, reporters, editors etc. It doesn’t require any specific linguistic education from its users.

     Order from Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, Strossmayerov trg 2, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia. Tel. 385-1-481-6215, 481-6217, 481-6218; Fax 481-6216; E-mail: ihjj@jezikoslov.ihjj.hr