Extracting and Linking Morphological Data from the Pre-Standard Croatian Grammars Using TEI

Abstract

Digital humanities offer the possibilities and tools to overcome the limitations of print technology (Robinson, 2002, p. 43). This is especially useful for conducting any kind of linguistic analysis on written texts. DH can also give new insights in processing older linguistic data, historical dictionaries, or grammar books. In the literature, the common title “Croatian pre-standard grammars” refers to a heterogeneous group of grammar books with common structural features and methods of description, and whose metalanguage or object language1 is one of the Croatian literary languages that precede the modern Croatian standard language based on Štokavian dialect: Čakavian, Kajkavian, and Štokavian.