Kašić\u27s Influence on Croatian Grammar

ln the Croatian linguistic community, owing to the work of numero us grammarians and lexicographers, the orthographic and language norms were being built for a long time before the official codification of the language standard. Their works were at the same time the description of the language and the measure of language correctness, and they were considered at the time of their occurrence as descriptive as well as prescriptive. Although they didn\u27t oblige anybody, they were language manuals which seemed to unify the written form of the Croatian language. Starting from this assumption, Jnstitutiones linguae illyricae by Bartol Kašić is not considered only as the first Croatian grammar, but also as the beginning of the Croatian language standardisation. Kašić, with the selection of dialectal basis for the literary language and with the description of its grammatical structure, gave the basis for the codification of the language standard