The core of this project is the previous project Croatian Written Heritage From the 17th to the 19th C. The aim is to deepen the knowledge of manuscripts and printed works of the 18th and 19th c. as weel as to disseminate Croatian written heritage of the observed period. Research related to the 20th c. is concerned with the contemporary linguistic situation, grammatical norm and (non)creative deviations from the standard language.

The planned research would be linguistic in the broad sense (concerning language history, culture, identity) and linguistic in the narrow sense (concerning sociolinguistics, syntax, phraseology and textology).

In 2012 members of the research team found 2 covers of 16 volumes with more than 600 handwritten pages that belong to Croatian linguist Šime Starčević. One of the aims of the previous project was to authenticate the manuscript and to carry out textual analysis. This project would be the opportunity to proceed with the textual analysis of the remaining manuscripts and to inform the public with the results.

It is expected that the results of the sociolinguistic research would contribute to the knowledge of the Croatian linguistic landscape and language of advertising of the 19th and 20th c. Analysis of the 18th and 19th c. language should acquaint the scientific public with the new area of historical sociolinguistics.

Syntactic research focuses the contemporary and historical syntax (such research is connected with the one at the University of Rijeka).

It is expected that the results of the phraseological research would reveal the present state of phraseology as well as to be the core of the contrastive linguistic research, especially concerning Croatian and German language in contact.

Additional task is to examine Croatian as the 2nd, heritage or foreign language.

The financial support would enable the fundamental humanistic research. The results of such research would expand the portfolio of the core research team.