Anglicisms in Albanian: A Language Contact Phenomenon: (monograph)

This paper shows that there are many more Anglicisms in the Albanian language than it has been traditionally believed by most Albanian linguists, that Anglicisms began to be used in Albania earlier than it has been hitherto assumed, since the 1920s, and that they constitute a considerable body of words in current use in the Albanian language; it considers a number of sources. The collection of the newspaper Laboremus, a periodical published by the students of the Technical School of Harry Fultz in the 1920s, funded by the American Red Cross; four dictionaries: A Dictionary of European Anglicisms by Manfred G rlach (2001), the 1980 and the 2002 editions of the Albanian Dictionary, Fjalor i Fjal ve t Huaja (1986) by Mikel Ndreca; a three-month collection of the newspaper Gazeta Shqiptare and three questionnaires provide the material of the empirical investigation.