Some examples of conversion in Ričoslovnik iliričkoga, italijanskoga i nimačkoga jezika by Josip Voltić

The paper deals with word formation in Voltić’s Dictonary and analyses examples of conversion. The examples are determined according to their first attestations and compared to the occurrence of the same words in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika JAZU . The analysis is preceded by a theoretical overview, which takes into consideration recent works in the field of conversion as well as word formation in general. The analysis has shown that the majority of cited examples of conversion from Voltić’s Dictionary were recorded in the lexicographic tradition of the time as a part of the already established language system. Nevertheless, Voltić’s contribution to word formation is proven even on such a limited corpus with few possibilities for innovation in word formation