Abstract
The paper examines Albanian progressive forms and their distribution in comparison with the English progressive. The objective is to find the similarities and differences between the Albanian progressive and the progressive in English.
The theoretical part provides a survey and the description of the forms of the progressive in each language. The research project offers an analysis of the progressive forms, first in an Albanian-English translation and second visa versa.
The research part qualifies the observation in the literature on the Albanian progressive in one important respect: it shows that of the two available progressive constructions in Albanian, po- particle appears to be the prevailing one. However, there is an asymmetry between the po-construction and the English progressive in the examined texts.
While the English progressive translates 2/3 (and possibly more) of the Albanian po-constructions, only 1/3 of the English progressive forms are translated into Albanian by po-constructions.