Dukuri sintaksore me interes dialektor në gjuhën shqipe
Syntactic features of dialectical interest in Albanian

Summary/Abstract: This article consists of two parts. In the first part, it provides a thorough overview of the history of the study of Albanian dialect syntax, focusing on the reasons that motivated it, as well as the methodological barriers that it faced over years. The first phase of dialectological study, which lasted about 25 years, was motivated largely by the need to determine the features that differentiate the two major dialects of Albanian and their geographical distribution. During this phase, work focused mainly in the domains of phonetics-phonology, morphology and lexicon. Syntax was left behind due to various methodological barriers connected with the lack of equipment. In addition, scholars believed that differentiating features in syntax were so small in number that they did not present any obstacle for the creation of the standard variety, which was the major goal of the Albanology during that time. The second part attempts to generalize a set of criteria for the selection of dialect syntax features to be followed in future studies. Specifically, this section first provides some examples of features that are specific to various dialectical variants, and features that are more common across differing dialectical variants. Secondly, it argues that dialectical features that have spread into the standard variety are not worth investigating as features that do not pertain specific dialectical information. This part also suggests that data collection should happen in not as many geographical points as in the case of the Dialectological Atlas of Albanian, but in a reduced set due to the fact that syntactic microvariation is not as varied as phonological and lexical variation.

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