| Summary: | Spiro Floqi belongs to the Albanian linguists of the second half of 20th century. He graduated and accomplished his postgraduate studies (Aspirantura, the present Ph.D. equivalent) at the Lomonosov University, in Moscow (1954). The same year he was employed by the Institute of Sciences in Tirana. Although his main contributions are related to modern Albanian syntax, he commenced his research activity in the research area of dialectology, through writing a descriptive monograph study focusing on the spoken idiom of Dangëlli, a region situated in South-Eastern Albania, renowned, inter alia, as the birthplace of the Frashëri brothers, respectively Abdyl, Naim e Sami Frashëri. Two of them, Naim, the national poet, and Sami, the renowned philosopher and linguist, played an especially key role in the formation and the codification of literary Albanian in the late quarter of XIX century. Therefore, perfectly accurate familiarity with their native regional dialect assumes great importance even with respect to the history of evolution for the Albanian literary language. In his monograph, he described the phonetic system, the morphological forms and the syntactic peculiarities of this regional dialect. The last part of the monograph includes a glossary of characteristic words for this regional dialect and a number of texts collected and recorded through field research. S. Floqi also compiled the dialectological questionnaire employed as early as late 1950s in the area of dialectological research. In his research concerning syntax, S. Floqi’s activity focused mainly on compound period and syntagma. He wrote a comprehensive monograph on compound sentence and a series of monographs focusing on the subordinate sentences consisting of subject, predicate, object, attributive, local, temporal, causal and consecutive clauses. Based on these monographs, he compiled the respective chapters included in “Gramatika e gjuhës shqipe (vëll. 2, Sintaksa, 684 f.) (“Albanian Grammar”, Volume II, Syntax, 684 pp), edited by the Academy of ...
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