Russian Linguistic Bulletin (Jun 2020)

AN ANALYSIS OF THE VERB TENSES IN THE NEWSPAPER “KOHA DITORE”

  • Hasimja-Pasha, A.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.18454/RULB.2020.22.2.14
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2020, no. 2 (22)
pp. 163 – 166

Abstract

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In the 1970’s, Rexhep Ismajli, based on the results of his time in Europe, saw the need for studying beyond the sentence. Analyzing the text as the largest unit in Albanian language, Albanian scholars, although not many, continued their studies including the text in their linguistic treatments, also. Since the text is a necessary unit for better communication than the sentence, which cannot always fulfill the desired purposes, it was seen necessary to also study the tenses in a text. There are several types of texts, and with a variety of types, the distribution of verb tenses varies from one text to another. In the present work, we shall try to discuss the use of the two tenses we have to study, as well as the statistics of other scholars about the past tenses in general of the indicative mood. During this work, we shall try to reveal what the difference is between the impluperfect and the aor-pluperfect, when each is used, and whether the speaking attitude and viewpoint differ as far as their use is concerned. A quantitative analysis is one of the main goals of this work, through which we shall make the distinction of the impluperfect and aor-pluperfect, seeing the quantity of use in certain linguistic contexts. The work shall consist of both theoretical and practical parts. A part of it will be dedicated to the speaking viewpoint, as well as to the tenses in the text. Eventually, an analysis of the corpus shall be presented, which is the daily newspaper “Koha Ditore” (The Daily Time), along with our conclusions about them. The verb tenses are divided into two groups: commentative and narrative. The division is based on the relation of the sender, the subject (object) being narrated, and the message receiver. When the narrating tenses are used, the sender and the receiver are directly linked to the event, whereas when the commentative tenses are used, the sender makes a greater distance between him and the narration.

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