In the seventeenth century and first half of the eighteenth century, discrepancies between the traditional sixteenth-century written norm of the standard language and actual spoken language grew increasingly greater. This is reflected in theoretical introductions to certain books and grammars from this period. This article presents the basic emphases of these works and compares them with the situation in the sixteenth century.
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The article presents a commentary and a critical translation of the grammar introduction in the Italian-Slovene dictionary by Alasia da Sommaripa (1607). It disambiguates more difficult and hard-to-understand passages and places Alasia’s grammar in the general European context of its time. In view of the findings presented in the commentary, the short grammar can be considered an original piece of work with numerous solutions with no previous model in any European grammar of that era.
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