Croatian grammars before the 20th century
1604 Bartol Kašić, Institutionum linguae illyricae libri duo (Rome). (A description of Croatian literary idioms based on the Čakavian and Štokavian dialects)
1639 Rajmund Đamanjić, Nauk za dobro pisati latinskijem slovima riječi jezika slovinskoga (How to spell Croatian words in Latin characters) (complicated spelling solutions).
1649 Jakov Micaglia, Grammatika talianska ukratko illi kratak nauk za naucitti latinski (A short Italian grammar or short instructions on how to master Latin) (containing a dictionary).
1665 Juraj Križanić, Gramatično iskazanje ob ruskom jeziku (A grammatical outline of the Russian language), Tobolsk (A general Slavic grammar based on data concerning the Slavic languages which were available to the author). Characteristics of the Croatian literary language were marked, so that “it contains a standard 17th century Croatian grammar”
1728 Ardelio della Bella, Instruzioni della lingua illirica, in:
Dizionario Italiano—Latino—Illirico, Venice.
1761 Blaž Tadijanović, Svašta po malo iliti kratko složenje imena i riči u ilirski i njemački jezik (Miscellany, or a short Illyrian and German grammar).
1767 Matija Antun Reljković, Nova slavonska i nimačka gramatika (A new Slavonian and German grammar).
1778 Marijan Lanosović, Neue Einleitungzurslavonischen Sprache, Osijek (with Slavonisches Worterbuch at the end).
1793 Josip Jurin, Grammatica Illyricae iuventuti Latino Italoque sermone instruendae accomodata, Venice.
1803 Josip Voltiggi, Grammatica illirica, in: Ricoslovnik illiricskoga, italianskoga i nimacskoga jezika s’ jednom pridpostavljenomm grammatikom illi pismenstvom: sve ovo sabrano i sloxeno od Jose Voltiggi Istranina, (A dictionary of the Illyrian, Italian and German languages with a grammar and orthography) Vienna.
1808 Francesco Maria Appendini, Grammatica della lingua Il lirica, Dubrovnik. (The grammar points to the supraregional character of the neo—Štokavian dialect which replaced the former Cakavian and Štokavian literary idioms in southern provinces).
1812 Šime Starčević, Nova ričoslovnica ilirička (A new Illyrian grammar), Trieste (an attempt to come closer to the vernacular by describing the language of folk proverbs; the four—accent system of the Ikavian variant of the Štokavian dialect was described for the first time).
1833 Ignjat Alojzije Brlić, Grammatik der illyrischen Sprache, Ofen.
1836 Vjekoslav Babukić, Osnova slovnice slavjanske narječja ilirskoga (Foundations of the Slavic grammar of the Illyrian dialect) (first published in Danica ilirska in 1836).
1839 Antun Mažuranić, Temelji ilirskoga i latinskoga jezika za početnike (Foundations of the Illyrian and Latin languages), Zagreb.
1843 Ilija Rukavina Ljubački, Abanderungs = und Abwandlungs = Formen nebst den Regeln der Aussprache und Rechtschreibung, Trieste.
1847 Lavoslav Furholzer, Horvatsko—slavonska slovnica za početnike (A Croatian—Slavonian grammar for beginners), Varaždin.
1850 Rudolf Froehlich, Theoretische—praktische Taschen—Grammatik der illirischen Sprache, Vienna.
1850 Andrija Stazić, Grammatica della lingua illirica ad uso degli amatori nazionali e stranieri che bramano d’impararla. Zadar.
1850 Jerolim Sutina, Principi di grammatica illirica esposti da Girolamo Suttina, in: Vocaboli di prima necessita..., Zadar.
1851 Andrija Stazić, Slovnica serbsko—ilirskoga jezika za decu u Dalmaciji i u druzih deržavah jugoslavjanskih (A grammar of the Serbian—Illyrian language for children in Dalmatia and other Yugoslav countries), Split.
1852 Fran Kurelac, Kako da sklanjamo imena ili greške hrvatskih pisac glede sklonovanja 2—A padeža množine (How to decline nouns, or mistakes of Croatian writers with respect to the second case plural) (a study).
1854 Andrija Torkvat Brlić, Grammatik der illyrischen Sprache, Vienna.
1854 Fran Volarić, Ilirska slovnica za početne učionice (An Illyrian grammar for elementary schools), Trieste.
1855 Ivan Danilo, Grammatica della lingua illirica, Zadar.
1855 Andrija Stazić, Grammatica illirica pratica secondo il metodo di Ahne di Ollendorff, Split.
1859 Antun Mažuranić, Slovnica hervatska (A Croatian grammar).
1859 Adolfo Veber Tkalčević, Skladnja ilirskoga jezika za niže gimnazije (Syntax of the Illyrian language for grammar schools), Vienna.
1860 Vinko Pacel, Slovnica jezika Hrvatskoga ili Srbskoga (A grammar of the Croatian or Serbian language), Zagreb.
1862 Adolfo Veber Tkalčević, Slovnica za četvrti razred katoličkih glavnih učionah u Carevini austrijanskoj (A grammar for the fourth class of Catholic schools in the Austrian Empire), Vienna.
1864 Vatroslav Jagić, Gramatika jezika hervackoga (A grammar of the Croatian language), Zagreb.
1865 Vinko Pacel, Oblici književne hrvaštine (Forms of the Croatian literary heritage), Karlovac.
1867 Pero Budmani, Grammatica della lingua serbo—croata, Vienna (The term Serbo—Croatian was here used in a title of a grammar for the first time).
1869 Paul Pierre, Abrege de grammaire francaise—croate et de dictionnaire francais—croate, Zagreb.
1871 Adolfo Veber Tkalčević, Slovnica hervatska za srednja učilišta (A Croatian grammar for secondary schools), Zagreb.
1873 Ivan Danilo, Slovnica za srednja učilišta nižega reda (A grammar for lower secondary schools), Zadar.
1873 Dragutin Parčić, Grammatica della lingua slava (illirica) compilata da P. Carlo A. Parčić, Zadar.
1879 Mirko Divković, Hrvatske gramatike I. dio. Oblici. (Croatian grammar. I part. Forms).
1880 Mirko Divković, Nauka o izreci. (Sentence grammar).
1880 Josip Vitanović, Gramatika hrvatskoga jezika. (Grammar of the Croatian language).
1881 Mirko Divković, Hrvatske gramatike II. dio. Sintaksa za školu. (Croatian grammar. Part II. Syntax for schools).
1893 Rudolf Strohal, Hrvatska slovnica (Croatian grammar).
1899 Tomo Maretić, Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskog jezika (Grammar and stylistics of the Croatian or Serbian language).