Spojeno i odvojeno pisanje reči u pravopisu srpskoga jezika: dijahronijski pristup

Abstract

The main goal of the paper is to determine the differences related to one of the most complex areas of Serbian orthography – open and closed compound words – explored from the diachronic perspective, that is, our goal is to examine what formal and se- mantic criteria authors/editors of orthography handbooks followed when it comes to writing compounds, semi-compounds, and syntagms. The corpus consists of the following: Srpski pravopis [Serbian Orthography] (1914); Pravopis srpskohrvatskog književnog jezika [Or- thography of the Serbo-Croatian Literary Language] (1923); Pravopisno uputstvo za sve os- novne, srednje i stručne škole Kralјevine Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca [Orthographic Handbook for all Primary, Secondary, and Vocational Schools of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes] (1929); Novo pravopisno uputstvo srpskog književnog jezika [New Orthographic Handbook of the Serbian Literary Language] (1942); Pravopis srpskohrvatskoga književnog jezika [Orthography of the Serbo-Croatian Literary Language] (1960); Pravopis srpskoga jezika [Orthography of the Serbian Language] (1993); and Pravopis srpskoga jezika [Or- thography of the Serbian Language] (2014). The selection of the corpus is based on the fact that over a century (1914–2014) the editors of orthography handbooks did not always con- sistently adhere to the traditional rules of writing Serbian open and close compound words, and that inevitable changes in the .language imposed new orthographic rules to be applied in this area. This paper explores the extent to which the differences are visible, as well as the segments of writing open and closed compound words that have changed the most