Kontaktološka istraživanja germanizama u hrvatskome jeziku

There is a large number of German loan-words in the Croatian language, especially in its dialects, due to intensive political, economic and cultural connections between speakers of Croatian and German. AlthoughGerman loan-words have been topic of previous separate studies, there is still neither systematic and comprehensive study that would capture that layer of loan-words in the historical texts, in literary language and in local idioms, nor the dictionary of German loan-words in the Croatian language.Our paper gives a short survey of previous research of German loan-words in the Croatian language taking into consideration the extralinguistic reality (the attitude towards that layer of loan-words) as well as its span and scientific quality. An attempt is made to set the direction for further research in that area.