Pavao Tekav？i？ – Pragmalinguist

Sa？etak The aim of this paper is to present the research performed by P. Tekav？i？ in the field of Croatian-Italian contrastive analysis, in which some aspects of pragmatics of exceptional importance for the study of discourse characteristics of the Croatian and the Italian language were analysed for the first time. A particular attention is given to an extensive study performed in 1989, in which the author discusses the issue of “particles” in the Croatian language and their equivalents in the Italian language