Për hartimin e një fjalori të gjuhës shqipe të ilustruar për fëmijë
Compiling an Illustrated Dictionary of the Albanian Language for Children

Summary/Abstract: The focus of this paper will be the development of an Albanian illustrated dictionary for children. The necessity of a dictionary in standard Albanian for Albanian school children has been discussed many times in the Albanian scientific community, but this gap remains yet unfulfilled. The authors of this paper have attributed their attention to this issue for quite some time now, which is why in this paper we want to address the general principles and special criteria that come into play when one writes such a major book. Specifically, we will talk about the basic lexicon of Albanian school age children and the corpus to be used for that. Very important is the way of presenting, explaining, and illustrating the lemmas with specific clauses and phrases for proper paradigms. Furthermore, a dictionary of this kind needs special grammatical information appropriate to the school and cognitive needs of the target group. Also, this dictionary should unify and improve lexical and grammatical criteria followed in previous Albanian dictionaries, especially with regard to functional words such as prepositions, adverbs, conjunctions or particles, which are often unclear not only to a child, but for an adult as well. Another special feature of this age group is the need for colourful illustrations, with photos and drawings that represent the meaning of the lemmas, especially the meanings that refer to concrete objects in the real world. Of course, such a dictionary is certainly contemporary and comparable with dictionaries of the same type that have already been published in languages with highly developed lexicography, such as English, French, and so on. Finally, we emphasize that a dictionary in standard Albanian for children of ages 6 to 15 would surely be very useful and a novelty for Albanian linguistics and Albanian teaching schools, for the entire community dealing with the education of children in Albanian language, as well as foreigners who wish to learn Albanian.

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