FJALORI LEKSIKO-FRAZEOLOGJIK I DEVOLLIT SI DËSHMI HISTORIKE DHE ETNOSOCIOLINGUISTIKE
THE LEXICAL AND PHRASEOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF DEVOLL AS A HISTORIC AND ETNOSOCIOLINGUISTIC EVIDENCE

Summary/Abstract: “The Lexical and Phraseological Dictionary of Devoll”, published in 2016, is part of a series of published expository regional dictionaries, whose aim is to reflect the lexical-phraseological corpus of a region. This dictionary enlightens words and phrases that are particular to the regional speech of Devoll. It also displays words and expressions that are part of a wider Albanian language usage, but which have acquired new connotations, new meanings and figurative use in this particular regional speech. The dictionary in focus of this paper, stores more than thirteen thousand words and phraseological units, proverbs, wishing and swearing formula, proper names of people, toponyms, etc. They are all provided with respective definitions, as well as more than six thousand illustrations drown from the spoken language, found in previous publications of the Devoll speech and researched in the published work of twenty-five authors descendants of Devoll. Most of the displayed units in “The Lexical and Phraseological Dictionary of Devoll” can not be found in earlier publications and may be used as first hand source for futher, deeper research in the domain of dialectology, sociolinguistics, ethnography, etc. The Dictionary is a thorough “encyclopedia” of the spiritual treasury of the Devoll people, its culture and its language, which reflect many particular features if compared to other regions of Albania.

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