The Language of Kozarac’s Comedies

Prvi je put komedija Josipa Kozarca Tartufov unuk objavljena u Slavjanskom almanahu 1879., a drugi put u Sabranim djelima Josipa Kozarca pola stoljeća poslije. Uz drugo objavljivanje Tartufova unuka, tada su prvi put objavljene komedije Tuna Bunjavilo i Turci u Karlovcu. O svim se trima komedijama do sada pisalo, ali kao o dramskim i/ili književnim djelima, a na njihov se jezik nije obraćala pozornost. Jezik tih komedija mogao bi biti osobito zanimljiv književnoj povijesti jer je jezik prvoga izdanja bitno različit od ponovljenoga, a pomnija jezična analiza komedije Turci u Karlovcu dovodi i do sumnje u Kozarčevo autorstvo. U radu se opisuje jezik navedenih komedija, uspoređuje se međusobno, ali i s proznim Kozarčevim djelima.The first comedy by Josip Kozarac was Tartufov unuk (Tartuffe’s Grandson) published in Slavjanski almanah (Slavic Almanac) in 1879 and the second time in Sabrana djela Josipa Kozarca (The Collected Works of Josip Kozarac) half a century later. In addition to the second publication of Tartuffe’s Grandson, the Collected Works also included the comedies Tuna Bunjavilo and Turci u Karlovcu (The Turks in Karlovac) that were published for the first time. All three comedies have been written about so far, but they were only considered as dramatic and/or literary works, and no attention has been paid to their language. The language of these comedies could be particularly interesting to literary history, because the language of the first edition differs significantly from the language in the repeated edition. A more thorough linguistic analysis of the comedy Turks in Karlovac even casts the shadow of doubt about Kozarac’s authorship of that work. The paper describes the language of the aforementioned Kozarac’s comedies, they are compared to each other, but they are also compared to Kozarac’s prose works