On Serbian Slavic studies from the early 20th century from the perspective of the first volume of Juznoslovenski filolog

This paper analyzes the articles published in the first volume of Južnoslovenski Filolog which gives the clear picture of Serbian Slavic studies from the early 20th century. The articles mostly delt with the research of the oldest Slavic written documents, Slavic dialects which preserve the characteristics of the mutual Slavic proto-language, and they also delt with the comparative analyses of the Slavic langu ages in order to be able to recreate proto-Slavic language. The main method of research was comparative historical one. It is noticable that some of the articles were more topical than others, that reviewers were very critical, and that it is possible to get a picture of everyday life in Serbia from early 20th century from those articles. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 178021: Opis i standardizacija savremenog srpskog jezika