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REVISTA “STUDIME FILOLOGJIKE” DHE RUBRIKA “MATERIAL LEKSIKOR NGA KRAHINAT”
THE JOURNAL “PHILOLOGICAL STUDIES” AND THE FILE “ALBANIAN REGIONAL LEXICON”

Author(s): Hajri Shehu
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Qendra e Studimeve Albanologjike
Keywords: JOURNAL PHILOLOGICAL STUDIES ; FILE ; ALBANIAN REGIONAL LEXICON

Summary/Abstract: Research and study on the people's speech has always been considered as one of great topics for Albanian linguistics. It's importance has resulted from the value the popular lexicon bears for the Albanian literary language. Because of the conditions of the development of the national literary Albanian language in general and in concordance with the historical stage of its development, such units have potential literary value. From the point of view of origin - of the past, these lexical units are dialectisms and regionalisms, for they live in various regional speeches; from the point of view of the present, they are still unknown or little known in the literary Albanian language; but from the point of view of the future, they may gain real literary values, when they bring a further enrichment of the literary language and then they may become a common national property, i.e., from units of potential literary value, they may turn into units of real literary value. The literary language elaborates, of course such units phonetically. Sources of displaying them are mostly dictionaries. The File of Lexicon of Albanian was brought up in the Institute of Linguistics and History in Tirana in 1955. Besides coping out lexicon from books and other publications, more than 350 lexicological expeditions have been organized throughout the country up to 1991 to collect the so-called “rare words”. Hundreds of teachers and students have taken part in these expeditions finding and registering thousands of popular words and expressions, mostly in the countryside. All these materials are part and parcel of the File.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 03-04
  • Page Range: 079-086
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Albanian