Mahir Domi, linguist, professor, academic, Teacher of the People, passed away in Tirana. He was born in Elbasan, in 1915. He started his secondary studies at the Elbasan Normal School and continued and finished at the National (French) Lyceum of Kor\u00e7a (1937). He attended higher studies in classical philology and graduated from the University of Grenoble (France) in 1941. That same year he started working as a teacher and then as a director at the Normal School of Elbasan. Since 1947, employee at the Institute of Sciences, simultaneously lecturer at the Higher Pedagogical Institute. He participated in the drafting of the “Fjalori i gjuh\u00ebs shqip” (\u201cAlbanian language dictionary\u201d) (1954). With the establishment of the University of Tirana, he was appointed head of the chair of the Albanian language (1957\u20131962) and of the grammar and dialectology sector at the Institute of Linguistics and Literature (1957\u20131991). He has taught the following subjects: syntax of the Albanian language, historical morphology of Albanian and the history of Albanianology. Mahir Domi’s scientific activity extends to many fields of philological sciences: in grammar (syntax and morphology), history of language, history of Albanianology, dialectology and onomastics, normative linguistics and language culture, scientific criticism, history of literature, etc. He wrote the university texts “Morfologjia historike e shqipes\u201d (\u201cHistorical morphology of Albanian\u201d)(1961) and “Sintaksa e gjuh\u00ebs shqipe” (\u201cSyntax of the Albanian language\u201d), part I (1968), part II (1969). He has also written a number of articles and syntactic studies on general issues of Albanian syntax and the development of its structure. In the field of language history, he has written several articles and reports on the problem of the origin of the Albanian language and on issues of relations between the Albanian language and the languages of the Balkans, especially Romanian, such as: “Prapashtesa ilire dhe shqipe, p\u00ebrkime dhe paralelizma\u201d (“Illyrian and Albanian prefixes, concurrences and parallelisms”)(1974 ), “Konsiderata mbi tiparet e p\u00ebrbashk\u00ebta t\u00eb shqipes me gjuh\u00ebt ballkanike dhe mbi studimin e tyre” (\u201cConsiderations on the common features of Albanian with Balkan languages \u200b\u200band their study\u201d)(1975), “Mbi disa p\u00ebrkime dhe paralelizma sintaksore shqipe-rumune\u201d (\u201cOn some syntactic concurrences and parallelisms Albanian-Romanian\u201d)(1977), “Probleme t\u00eb historis\u00eb s\u00eb formimit t\u00eb gjuh\u00ebs shqipe, arritje dhe detyra\u201d (\u201cProblems of the history of the formation of the Albanian language, achievements and tasks\u201d)(1982). Member of the organizing committee and delegate of the Spelling Congress (1972). He participated in the drafting commissions of a number of terminological dictionaries, including “Fjalori i termave t\u00eb gjuh\u00ebsis\u00eb\u201d (\u201cDictionary of linguistic terms\u201d)(1975). As the author of a series of reviews, he has helped in the development of scientific criticism, paving the way for the drafting of a history of Albanian linguistic thought. He received the Republic Award of the First Class twice . (In the photo: Mahir Domi)<\/i> <\/p>\n
Text:<\/strong> Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 1 <\/i>, Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2008, page 504-505. <\/p>\n Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 https:\/\/diasporashqiptare.al\/2020\/04\/03\/105-vjetori-i-lindjes-se-akademikut-mahir-domi\/ <\/p>\n Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Tirana, Mahir Domi, a linguist, professor, academic, and People’s Teacher, passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vdekje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12065,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8163\/revisions\/12065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}