Paremiology, or the study of proverbs, is a recognized branch of linguistics and folklore studies with a long history and many distinguished scholars but largely neglected in Croatia. Unlike most of European and African languages, the Croatian language doesn’t have a contemporary dictionary of proverbs. Results of preliminary research indicate that 79.3% of young people aged 11 to 20 do not recognize the most common proverbs and proverbial expressions, and that proverbs are not being taught in Croatian schools. We need to find ways of preserving the Croatian paremiological heritage for future research and teach proverbs to younger generations. The present project will systematically investigate contemporary and historical usage of documented Croatian proverbs and proverbial expressions across speakers aged 14 to 90+, determining which items remain active, which are obsolete, and which should be prioritised in education. It will analyse regional, generational and stylistic variation in proverb use, as well as the degree to which speakers recognise and productively employ core elements of the Croatian paremiological repertoire. In parallel, the project will conduct a comparative study of Croatian proverbs and their full, partial and semantic equivalents in English, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Slovenian and Spanish, using corpora and expert judgement to establish cross-linguistic correspondences. As a result, there will be a large digital database containing over 8,000 Croatian proverbs and proverbial expressions constructed with core elements enriched with variants, usage examples and metadata. The data will be organised into the first Multilingual Dictionary of Croatian Proverbs and Proverbial Expressions with an integrated information-retrieval thesaurus that supports searching by meaning, keyword, topic, proverb type and language. Designed as an open, reusable infrastructure, this resource will support advanced cross-national research in paremiology, phraseology and lexicography, and provide a pedagogically exploitable foundation for teaching Croatian as both a first and a foreign language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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