E-ISSN 2240-0524 ISSN 2239-978X Journal of Educational and Social Research www.richtmann.org Vol 11 No 1 January 2021 73 . Research Article © 2021 Pranvera Osmani and Naser Pajaziti. This is an open access article licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) Received: 6 October 2020 / Accepted: 21 December 2020 / Published: 17 January 2021 Predicative Clauses in Albanian Language Pranvera Osmani PhD Candidate, Faculty of Philology, Albanian Language, University of Prishtina “Hasan Prishtina”, Agim Ramadani Str., Prishtina 10000, Kosovo Prof. Dr. Naser Pajaziti Professor, University of Prishtina “Hasan Prishtina”, Agim Ramadani Str., Prishtina 10000, Kosovo DOI: https://doi.org/10.36941/jesr-2021-0008 Abstract In this paper, it is aim to treat predicative clauses in the Albanian language. The structuring of subordinate clauses remains a debatable issue with incomplete solution in the Albanian syntax. The lack of a proper criterion for classification, structuring of clauses makes predicative clauses not treated properly, a few attentions is paid to them moreover they are explained superficially. This type of subordinate clause leaves room for treatments and discussions. They are among the most specific types of dependent clauses in Albanian. In the treatment of the subject, it is intended to explain the syntactic structures of these clauses, to describe as fully as possible the syntactic functions. It will address some conceptions and perspectives on Albanian syntaxes starting from the earliest to the present day. It has been selected the following grammars: the grammar of J. Rrota, M. Domi, S. Prifti, Th. Dhimës, M. Toton, M. Çeliku and the grammar of the Academy 2 (2002) etc. Keywords: predicative clauses, subordinate clauses, classification, Albanian grammar 1. Introduction In Albanian grammars and studies, the subordinate clauses are defined as a syntactic whole organically interconnected in terms of meaning and grammar, consisting of at least two or more predicative units in the form of sentences that are related to syntactic relations of dependence or subordination. The unit that serves as the organizing basis of the period is called the main sentence, while the one that completes it, explains what is grammatically dependent on it is called the dependent clause. Despite the different points of view, subordinate clauses based on the function of relations with the main sentence and parallelism with the limbs of the sentence, are divided into five groups in Albanian grammar: subject clauses, predicative clauses, object clauses, relative clauses and adverbial clauses. Exceptions to this rule are the classifications made by S. Floqi, M. Totoni, Th. Dhima, M. Çeliku etc., who as a result of the combination of the semantic criterion along with the structural and functional one, make a somewhat different division with more subtypes of subordination. In some