Nga “fjalori i kuq” te projekti i papërfunduar për botimin e veprave të plota të profesor Androkli Kostallarit (Çështje të botimit të veprave leksikografike në Prishtinë gjatë periudhës 1966-1981)
From the “Red Dictionary” to the Unfinished Project for the Publication of the Complete Works of Professor Androkli Kostallari (Issues of Publication of Lexicographic Works in Pristina during the Period 1966-1981)

Summary/Abstract: The effort to publish studies and works in the field of lexicography was one of the guiding policies of the prominent representatives of Albanian linguistics, including Idriz Ajeti, Abdullah Zajmit, Shefki Sejdiu, and Shefkije Islamaj. This process was closely related to the publication and study of the heritage of the Albanian language and its relationship with neighboring languages, reflecting the semantic richness of its development and contemporary technical, scientific, and professional advancements. The publication of works in the field of lexicography was necessarily connected to the period of intensified efforts to standardize the Albanian language and included significant contributions mainly in the fields of lexicography, terminology, and bilingual dictionaries from 1966 to 1982, which then continued with advancements in the field of lexicology as an effort to develop Albanian terminology. Key publications from this period include the Dictionary of the Albanian Language (1965), Russian-Albanian Dictionary (1966), French-Albanian Dictionary (1966), English-Albanian Dictionary (1966), Nikollë Gazulli's New Dictionary: rare words used in the north of Albania (1968), and Pano Tase's New Dictionary: rare words used in the South of Albania (1969), among others. This era also saw the first corpus of terminological dictionaries covering a variety of fields: Terminology of Botany, Mathematics and Theoretical Mechanics, Atomic Energy, Thermodynamics, Optics, Acoustics, Electromagnetism, Mechanics, Electrotechnics, Chemistry, Geology, Architecture, Mining, Hydraulics, Literature, and more. The culmination of these publications was undoubtedly the Dictionary of Today's Albanian Language (1981) and the five-volume project for the publication of Androkli Kostallari's Selected Works, which focused on the lexicon and problems in the field of standardization of the Albanian literary language. These volumes covered Development Directions of Albanian Sciences, Albanian Literary Language and Language Culture, Problems of Lexicology and Lexicography, Issues of Onomastics, and Support for the History of Literature. With the publication of the complete works of Professor Androkli Kostallari, it was intended to cover several parameters of institutional, scientific, and linguistic policy simultaneously: firstly, Professor Kostallari was considered a leading figure of all scientific developments in Tirana and of political, scientific, and educational relations with Kosovo; secondly, he was acknowledged as a central figure in the field of standardization of the Albanian language, a national project to which luminaries such as Professor Idriz Ajeti, Professor Rexhep Qosja, and Professor Ali Hadri, along with most of their generation, were committed; thirdly, Professor Kostallari was seen as the leading figure of all projects in the field of lexicography and lexicology, these being fundamental fields in the developments of the time; fourthly, unlike the researchers in Kosovo, who mainly dealt with historical toponymy, he dealt with toponymy as a structure and as a phonetic, grammatical, and semantic system, thus the publication of his studies in a separate volume brought a new perspective to Albanian linguistics in Kosovo; and finally, following the publication of the selected works of Aleksandër Xhuvani, Eqrem Çabej, Selman Riza, Jup Kastrati, Shaban Demiraj, Mahir Domi, and Idriz Ajeti, the publication of the complete works of Androkli Kostallari also fulfilled a collegial obligation.

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