Phraseology and Set Phrases in Albanian Language

Abstract

The new approach, in Albanian linguistics, concerning the phrase (sintagmë, in Albanian) consisting of two or more whatever
successive elements as the minimal syntactic unit instead of the “word-group” (togfjalësh, in Albanian) consisting of at least two content
words is of great interest to the field of phraseology as well. Researching in this frame, we adopt the set phrase theory for the multiword
structure on which phraseology should be based. In our research in the field of phraseology, we consider the importance of the (set)
phrase in justifying some cases which are accepted as idioms (phraseological unit, in Albanian), such as the idioms vret e pret =
[he,she] is brutal (kills and destroys, lit.), varg e vistër, zhyt e mbyt, flakë e flakë, etc. which are expressed through coordinated relations
and which, as a result, are not justified by the word-group theory that is defined as subordinated relation of content words. We consider
the importance of the phrase even in revealing other cases of multiword units, such as në tym = without thinking (in smoke, lit.), me
spec, me bisht, etc. expressed by prepositional phrases or e piu = [he,she] had a bad end (drank it, lit.), e qau; i dhashë një (në kokë),
etc. expressed by phrases one component of which is not a content word, but a pronoun or a numeral, and which should be accepted as
idioms.