THE ORIGINE OF PARTICIPAL SUFFIXES IN ALBANIAN

Abstract

In the I.E. languages are atested various kinds of participles having stem-building suffixes in relation of the grammatical cathegory of tense and diatheses, but not all of them are attested in each I.E.language. In the course of the evolution, in Albanian verbal system, only the past passive participle, is inherited form the I.E. non-finite forms. The I.E. suffix -meno has reflected -m, the reflexes of -no, has yielded -n(ë)/rë, and I.E. suffix -to has reflected -të. In Albanian, the participal suffixes are added to the verbal stem, which are the same as that of the past. After the formal distinction of the participial adjectives from the mere participles through the pre-articulation and after the formation of the analytic perfect, the Albanian past participle has undergone to a restriction of its functions as a term of the sentence, and an extension of its use as an integral part of the analytic perfect forms on the other. As a result of this change, the participle suffixes have been reorganised as well. The article aims to analyse the developement of these suffixes, in their form-building role, and in their grammatical functions.