ZHVILLIMI HISTORIK I MBIEMRAVE NË SHQIPEN E SOTME
ADJECTIVES IN OLD WORKS AND PRESENT DAY ALBANIAN LANGUAGE

Summary/Abstract: In the group of Indo-European languages attention of scholars was attracted by Albanian adjectives with connective articles, when it well known that all the languages of this big family (including Albanian language) anciently were equipped only with adjectives without connective articles. Our language, thus, in a certain temporal stage of its development, certainly pre-literal, has created also structural type of adjectives with connective articles and at this point has distanced from its Indo- European similar languages, which in their linguistic system preserved and still have only structural adjectives without connective articles, such as: lat. novus, Sanskrit návah, gr. néos, Slavic novi, Albanian has created form i ri. In old scriptions of our language, adjectives by its structure come out, as said, without connective articles and with connective articles and as such exist well consolidated since then and that form has been preserved even in later phases of its usage in entire Albanian language. I have to highlight that the number of adjectives with connective articles in the works of authors from sixteenth to eighteenth century appears to be quite small compared to the amount of those with connective articles, which is multiply bigger. . Special interest both for Albanian language and for the family of Indo-European languages present adjectives with connective articles in Albanian , which undoubtedly were created and developed within this language, thus differently from other Indo-European languages, which have had and still have only adjectives without connective articles. Another relevance in old scriptures present adjectives with connective articles such: i lee (today: i lehtë/i letë), i largë, i afër, i shpeshë, i turbullë, i blerë, i shumë, i dobë, i, e djathë, i vobegë , i zeshkë etc., so without supportive -t-, which they gained later. Indeed adjective of archaic forms without supportive suffix -t , thus with unexpended forms, were noticed earlier by Çabej in Buzuku’s “Meshari”, which as such and in quite a big number appear among other ancient authors.

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