Matasović Ranko. A Grammatical Sketch of Albanian for Students of Indo-European

Zagreb, 2018. — 49 p.This is a very brief introduction to Albanian intended for students of Indo-European linguistics. It is a subject I have taught in the University of Zagreb for almost thirty years, during which I often felt that Albanian, although a very important Indo-European language, has been somewhat neglected by comparativists. This introduction is not a comprehensive grammar, and one can not reasonably expect to learn Albanian by studying it. It is also not written by a fluent speaker of Albanian, but rather by a comparative linguist whose knowledge of the language is bookish and superficial. I hope it will still be useful to those students of Indo-European languages who have not had the opportunity to study Albanian in depth from native speakers and who are unable to read reference works on the history of the language written in Albanian. I would like to thank Professor Bardh Rugova, from the University of Prishtinë, for correcting some embarrasing mistakes in the earlier version of this manuscript, and also for some very useful suggestions and advices.