MORPHOLOGICAL AND ORTHOGRAPHIC COMMENTS ON PETRO MARKO'S WORK, "HALIMI"

Evolution of the Albanian language through the artistic words. Morphological and orthographic analysis of the novel Halimi by Petro Marko. The Congress of Orthography held in 1972 entered the history of the Albanian language as a great scientific assembly, with the Albanian language reaching the stage of a unified national literary language for all the Albanian people. The purpose of this article is to describe the deep and complex process of consolidation of the entire phonetic, grammatical, word-formation, and linguistic structure of the national literary language in its most important elements. Whole generations of language researchers, teachers, and patriots have continuously worked on a consistent development of the literary language and unified orthography, supporting consistency of the language process. Their work has also turned into significant support for schools, the media, publications, and for all institutions. The novel used as a reference here was published in 1969, a few years before the “Drejtshkrimi i Gjuhës Shqipe” (Orthography of the Albanian Language” was published. The exhaustive analysis is made from two perspectives: morphology and orthography, looking into the entire body of words used by author P. Marko. The article intends to shed light on the irreplaceable contribution that Albanian writers have given to disseminating the unified orthography, and illustrate how they have played a first-hand role, through their artistic use of the words, to creating, establishing, and disseminating the literary norm, including the orthographic norm, an integral part thereof.