philology of the University of Tirana. In April 1967 he was again put to trial and as a result his writing and publishing rights were revoked. After being transferred to Berat his right to borrow books from the library was revoked too. Selman Riza died in 1988, while most of his works were published post-mortem. In 2005 Ibrahim Rugova, President of Kosovo, posthumously awarded him with the Golden Medal of the League of Prizren and in 2009 Fatmir Sejdiu, his successor awarded Riza with the Golden Medal of Freedom. Works In 1944 his commentary work on Albanological studies, titled Tri Monografina Albanologjike, was published in Tiranë. His works' main subjects include variants of the Albanian language used in early Albanian literature, especially with Gjon Buzuku's Meshari. His 1952 study on the Serbo-Croatian grammar is regarded as a work of contrastive analysis, although that theory was not formulated until five years later by Robert Lado. Sources 1909 births 1988 deaths Linguists from Albania Linguists from Yugoslavia Albanian resistance members Albanian anti-fascists Albanian anti-communists Albanian nationalists University of Toulouse alumni Heidelberg University alumni Academic staff of the University of Tirana People from Kosovo vilayet 20th-century Albanian people Writers from Gjakova Kosovo Albanians Albanian National Lyceum alumni Yugoslav prisoners and detainees Albanian prisoners and detainees Albanologists Yugoslav expatriates in Albania 20th-century linguists Yugoslav emigrants to Albania