Lietuvių kalbos instituto kronika. 1999

CHRONICLE OF THE INSTITUTE OF THE LITHUANIAN LANGUAGE 1999 Structure The Institute had 7 divisions: the Great “Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language” (head – Assoc. Prof. habil. Dr. Vytautas Vitkauskas), Dictionaries of the Standard Language (head – Dr. Gertrūda Naktinienė), Onomastics (head – habil. Dr. Vitalija Maciejauskienė), Grammar (head – Prof. habil. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazas), Language Culture (head – Dr. Pranas Kniūkšta), Terminology (head – Dr. Kazimieras Gaivenis), and History of Language and Dialectology (head – Dr. Kazys Morkūnas); the publishing house (head – Audronė Stanislovaitienė). The Institute’s director was Prof. habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas. The deputy directors were Dr. Kazys Morkūnas (for research) and Kęstutis Jurkūnas (for general affairs). The scientific secretary was Irena Andriukaitienė. At the end of 1999, the Institute employed 140 people, including 93 research staff (39 researchers: 3 habilitated doctors who were professors, 1 habilitated doctor who was an associate professor, 6 habilitated doctors, 4 doctors who were associate professors, and 25 doctors). As of October 1, Audronė Gužauskaitė and Ilona Norvilaitė were admitted to the doctoral program in philology, in the humanities, jointly run by Vytautas Magnus University and the Institute of the Lithuanian Language and funded by the Institute (22 doctoral students were enrolled in total). Main Areas of Activity The following main areas of the Institute’s activity were established by Resolution No. 825 of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, dated 1998 07 02, “On the Most Important Areas of Activity of State Research Institutes”: 1) research into the lexicology, lexicography, and grammatical structure of the Lithuanian language; 2) research into the history of the Lithuanian language, its dialects, and language contacts; 3) research into the use of the Lithuanian language in society and into terminology. Key decisions of the Institute Council Council Chair: Prof. Habil. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazas; Vice-Chair: Habil. Dr. Nijolė Slizienė; Secretary: Dr. Gertrūda Naktinienė. A total of 6 Council meetings were held. At the meeting on January 29, it was resolved to approve the publication of works in external linguistics as a separate volume; to ask the publication’s editor-in-chief, Dr. Giedrius Subačius, to coordinate funding matters with the Institute’s administration; to approve the Institute’s 1998 report on research activities and its 1999 work plan; and to approve the following publications for printing: Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language 19 (editor-in-chief Vytautas Vitkauskas); 227 Jonas Paulauskas: bibliography (compiled by Adelė Judeikienė, edited by Zita Šimėnaitė); to certify Dr. Assoc. Prof. Gintautas Akelaitis and Dr. Marija Razmukaitė as senior research fellows for five years; to re-certify Prof. Habil. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazas, Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas, and Habil. Dr. Nijolė Slėzienė as principal research fellows for five years; to re-certify Dr. Kazimieras Gaivenis, Dr. Jonas Klimavičius, Dr. Kazys Morkūnas, Dr. Elena Valiulytė, and Dr. Aloyzas Vidugiris as senior research fellows for five years; to approve fixed-term employment contracts with Dr. Elena Grinaveckiene and Habil. Dr. Adelė Valeckienė. At the meeting on March 31, it was resolved to approve the Institute’s 1999 Certification Commission (Dr. Angelė Kaulakienė, Dr. Pranas Kniūkšta, Dr. Danutė Liutkevičienė, Dr. Marija Razmukaitė, Habil. Dr. Nijolė Slėzienė, Dr. Aloyzas Vidugiris); to nominate Prof. Habil. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazas as a member of the expert commission of the Research Council of Lithuania; on the recommendation of the joint habilitation commission of LKI and LLTI, and given that more than three months had passed since the habilitation committee was approved, to reapprove the habilitation committee for Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vytautas Vitkauskas with its membership unchanged; and to approve for printing Habil. Dr. Saulius Ambrazas’s monograph The Development of Noun Formation II. Nominal Derivatives in the Lithuanian Language. At the meeting on April 19, it was resolved to approve the habilitation committee for Dr. Giedrius Subačius on the recommendation of the joint habilitation commission of LKI and LLTI; to re-certify Dr. Irena Ermantytė and Dr. Ritutė Petrokienė as senior research fellows for five years; to nominate Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas and Prof. Habil. Dr. Zigmas Zinkevičius as candidates for membership of the Lithuanian Science Prize Committee (Humanities and Social Sciences Section); to endorse the principles for compiling the Dictionary of Lithuanian Place Names set out in the prospectus and instructions; to give particular attention, when revising the instructions and preparing the dictionary text, to the transcription of dialect forms, clearly distinguishing transcribed (dialect) forms of place names from their official forms; and to instruct the dictionary’s compilers to submit proposals to the Institute Council by December 31, 1999, on the planned scope of the dictionary and the schedule for its preparation. At the meeting on June 18, it was resolved to approve the following Institute publications for printing: Kazys Ulvydas, Lithuanian Adverbs (compiled by Elena Valiulytė); Questions in Lithuanian Linguistics 41; Archivum Lithuanicum 1; Language Advice Information Bulletin 7; Kazys Morkūnas: bibliography (compiled by Irena Andriukaitienė); Kazys Pakalka: bibliography (compiled by Zita Šimėnaitė); to supplement the title of Questions in Lithuanian Linguistics with the Latin-language first title Acta linguistica Lithuanica, while retaining the volume numbering; to approve the Certification Commission’s decisions on the certification of Dalia Blažinskaitė, Dr. Jolanta Gelumbeckaitė, and Rasa Mielkuvienė; to approve the 1999 doctoral admissions commission (Habil. Dr. Simas Karaliūnas, Dr. Kazys Morkūnas, Dr. Gertrūda Naktinienė, Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vytautas Vitkauskas, Prof. Habil. Dr. Zigmas Zinkevičius). At the meeting on September 21, it was resolved to approve the Certification Commission’s decisions on the certification of Assoc. Prof. Habil. Dr. Vytautas Vitkauskas, Habil. Dr. Axel Holvoet, Dr. Ona Alek- 228 navičienės, and assistant Vilija Rutkauskienė and Vilma Vaivadaitė; to admit Audronė Gužauskaitė and Ilona Norvilaitė to doctoral studies in the humanities (philology) at LKI and VDU; to extend the doctoral study period until 2000 03 15 for doctoral students Edmundas Trumpa and Albina Auksoriūtė; to submit the cycle of works in theoretical grammar to the Lithuanian Science Awards competition: Grammatika litovskogo jazyka (Vilnius: Mokslas, 1985), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos gramatika (Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidykla, 1994; Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos inst., 1996, 1997), Lithuanian Grammar (Vilnius: Baltos lankos, 1997), and to recommend the following principal authors for awards: Prof. Habil. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazas, Prof. Habil. Dr. Aleksas Girdenis, Habil. Dr. Nijolė Sližienė, Prof. Habil. Dr. Vincas Urbutis, Habil. Dr. Adelė Valeckienė, Dr. Elena Valiulytė; to submit the scholarly monograph by Habil. Dr. Giedrius Subačius, Ideas for a Standard Samogitian Language: The Early Nineteenth Century (Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos inst., 1998), for the Kazimieras Būga (linguistics) Award competition; to nominate Dr. Laimutis Bilkis for the 2000 state scholarship for young researchers; to submit Dr. Jolanta Gelumbeckaitė’s research work, The Use of Case and Prepositional Constructions in Jonas Bretkūnas’s Translation of the Gospel According to Luke, to the Young Researchers’ Research Paper Competition; to nominate doctoral student Daiva Atkočaitytė for the Evelina Kolupailaitė Masiokienė Scholarship; to approve for publication: Kalbos kultūra 72, Normų kaita ir vartosena (abstracts of papers from the Jonas Jablonskis Conference). At the meeting on October 19 it was decided: to recommend Prof. Habil. Dr. Zigmas Zinkevičius as a candidate for membership of the Lithuanian Science Council; to approve the doctoral committees for doctoral students Audronė Gužauskaitė and Ilona Norvilaitė. Publishing Acta linguistica Lithuanica: Questions of Lithuanian Linguistics. Vol. 41: In Memory of Aleksandras Vanagas / editorial board: Kazys Morkūnas (editor-in-chief), Vytautas Ambrazas (deputy editor-in-chief), Aina Blinkena, Vincentas Drotvinas, Vitalija Maciejauskienė, Guido Michelini, Danguolė Mikulėnienė, Gertrūda Naktinienė, William R. Schmalstieg, Wojciech Smoczyński, Bonifacas Stundžia, Zigmas Zinkevičius; compiled by Laimutis Bilkis, Vitalija Maciejauskienė, Marija Razmukaitė. – Vilnius: Lithuanian Language Institute Press, 1999. – 268 p. – 500 copies. Aleknavičienė, Ona. Sources of the Pericopes in Jonas Bretkūnas’s Postil: Summary of a doctoral dissertation. Humanities, philology, 04 H. – Kaunas: Vytautas Magnus University, [Vilnius: Lithuanian Language Institute], 1999. – 28 p. – 70 copies. Aleksandras Vanagas: Bibliography. Reprint from Acta linguistica Lithuanica. Questions of Lithuanian Linguistics. Vol. 41 / compiled by Laimutis Bilkis, Vitalija Maciejauskienė, Alma Ragauskaitė. – Vilnius: Lithuanian Language Institute, 1999. – 53 p. – 50 copies. Archivum Lithuanicum 1 / Klaipėda University, Lithuanian Language Institute, Šiauliai University, Vilnius University, Vytautas Magnus University; editorial board: Giedrius Subačius (editor-in-chief), Ona Aleknavičienė, Saulius Ambrazas, Roma Bončkute, Pietro U. Dini, 229 Jolanta Gelumbeckaite, Birute Kabašinskaitė, Rūta Marcinkevičienė, Jochen D. Range, Christiane Schiller, William R. Schmalstieg, Skirmantas Valentas. – Vilnius: Lithuanian Language Institute, 1999. – 274 p. – 600 copies. Gelumbeckaite, Jolanta. Die Verwendungen von Kasus- und Präpositional-konstruktionen in Jonas Bretkūnas’ Übersetzung des Lukasevangeliums: Summary of a doctoral dissertation. Humanities, philology, 04 H. – Kaunas: Vytautas Magnus University, [Vilnius: Lithuanian Language Institute], 1999. – 24 p. – 70 copies. Jonas Paulauskas: Bibliography / compiled by Adelė Judeikienė, edited by Zita Šimenaitė. – Vilnius: Lithuanian Language Institute Press, 1999. – 31 p. – 200 copies. Jonas Jablonskis Conference: Changing Norms and Usage (Conference Abstracts), Vilnius, October 7, 1999 / edited by Pranas Kniūkšta, prepared for publication by Dana Vainauskienė. – Vilnius: Lithuanian Language Institute, 1999. – 24[1] p. – 100 copies. Kalbos kultūra / editorial board: Vytautas Ambrazas, Kazimieras Gaivenis, Pranas Kniūkšta (editor-in-chief), Vitas Labutis, Vitalija Maciejauskienė, Rita Miliūnaitė, Gertrūda Naktinienė; compiled and prepared for publication by Albina Bataitytė. – Vilnius: Lithuanian Language Institute Press, 1999. – Issue 72. – 132 p. – 1000 copies. Language Advice Information Bulletin 7: January–June 1998 / edited by Rita Miliūnaitė, prepared for publication by Janina Vileikienė. – Vilnius: Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing Institute, 1999. – 41 p. – 500 copies. Kazys Morkūnas: Bibliography / compiled by Irena Andriukaitienė, edited by Rūta Pleskačiauskienė. – Vilnius: Lithuanian Language Institute Press, 1999. – 46 p. – 200 copies. Encyclopedia of the Lithuanian Language / Vytautas Ambrazas, Aleksas Girdenis, Kazys Morkūnas, Algirdas Sabaliauskas, Vincas Urbutis, Adelė Valeckienė, Aleksandras Vanagas; Lithuanian Language Institute; prepared by Kazys Morkūnas; edited by Vytautas Ambrazas. – Vilnius: Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing Institute, 1999. – 457 p.: ill., maps. – 3000 copies. – (Language Development Programme). Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language. [Vol.] 19: Veša – zvumterėti / editor-in-chief Vytautas Vitkauskas; editorial board: Irena Ermanytė, Gertrūda Naktinienė, Jonas Paulauskas, Ritutė Petrokienė, Vytautas Vitkauskas. – Vilnius: Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing Institute, 1999. – 1120 p. – 3000 copies. – (Language Development Programme). Lithuanian Studies: Traditions, Present, Prospects. Papers from the academic conference commemorating the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Institute of Lithuanian Studies. March 9, 1999, Vilnius / Lithuanian Language Institute, Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Lithuanian Institute of History / editorial board: Algis Kalėda, Zig mantas Kiaupa, Kazys Morkūnas. – Vilnius: Lithuanian Institute of History Press, 1999. – 147 p. – 450 copies. Sofija Kėzytė: bibliography / compiled by Zita Šimenaitė, edited by Kazys Morkūnas. – Vilnius: Lithuanian Language Institute Publishing House, 1999. – 19 p. – 200 copies. Subačius, Giedrius. Ideas about Standard Lowland Lithuanian: Beginning of Nineteenth Century: Summary of the monograph submitted for habilitation. Humanities: Philology (04 H). – Vilnius: Lithuanian Language Institute, 1999. – 47 p. – 60 copies. 230 Subačius, Giedrius. Ideas about Standard Lowland Lithuanian: Beginning of the Nineteenth Century: Summary of the monograph submitted for habilitation. Humanities, Philology (04 H). – Vilnius: Lithuanian Language Institute, 1999. – 39 p. – 60 copies. Vitkauskas, Vytautas. Morphophonemic phenomena in Lithuanian dialects and their variation: Habilitation thesis. Humanities, Philology (04 H). – Vilnius: Lithuanian Language Institute, 1999. – 159 p. – 50 copies. Vitkauskas, Vytautas. Morphophonemic phenomena and their variations in Lithuanian dialects: Summary of the habilitation thesis. Humanities, Philology (04 H). – Vilnius: Lithuanian Language Institute, 1999. – 23 p. – 100 copies. Vladarskienė, Rasuolė. Features of syntactic means in the language of state documents: Summary of the doctoral dissertation. Humanities, Philology (04 H). – Kaunas: Vytautas Magnus University, [Vilnius: Lithuanian Language Institute], 1999. – 22 p. – 50 copies. Funding for publication was provided by the Ministry of Education and Science and the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language under the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, as part of the 1996–2005 Programme for the Use and Development of the State Language. Computer publications: Guidelines for Official Language Usage. Computer edition, diskette / Lithuanian Language Institute; prepared by Dana Vainauskienė, 1999. Print run: 500 copies. Project implementers: Pranas Kniūkšta, Dana Vainauskienė, Rūta Glemžienė. The work was funded by the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language under the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, as part of the 1996–2005 Programme for the Use and Development of the State Language. Other publications prepared by Institute staff: English–Lithuanian Dictionary for Beginners / Gražvydas Kirvaitis, Jonas Paulauskas. – Kaunas: Šviesa, 1999. – 216 p. – 5,000 copies. Keinys, Stasys. Word Formation in Standard Lithuanian. – Šiauliai: Šiauliai University Press, 1999. – 118 p. – 3,000 copies. Dictionary of Social Security Terms / compiled by S. Angele, A. Dobrovolskas, St. Keinys, L. Murauskienė, R. Sakalaitė, H.-D. Steinmeyer. – Vilnius: Health Economics Centre, 1999. – 157 p. – 1,000 copies. Learner’s Dictionary of Lithuanian Spelling and Stress / compiled by Pranas Kniūkšta, Antanas Lyberis. – 7th ed. – Kaunas: Šviesa, 1999. – 368 p. – 10,000 copies. Dictionary for Beginners / Gražvydas Kirvaitis, Jonas Paulauskas. – 3rd ed. – Kaunas: Šviesa, 1999. – 216 p. – 5,000 copies. Publications in the press Fifty-eight scholarly articles (8 in foreign publications) and about 90 popular science articles were published. Abstracts of 29 papers presented at scholarly conferences were published. 231 Dissertation defences May 4 doctoral student Jolanta Gelumbeckaitė defended her doctoral dissertation, “The Use of Case and Preposition Constructions in Jonas Bretkūnas’s Translation of the Gospel According to Luke,” at a public meeting of the joint doctoral committee of LKI and VDU. The dissertation was in doctoral studies (humanities, philology, 04 H). Doctoral committee: chair and supervisor, Prof. Habil. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazas (LKI, humanities, philology, 04 H); members: Prof. Habil. Dr. Eugenija Ulčinaitė (VU, humanities, philology, 04 H), Prof. Habil. Dr. Guido Michelini (University of Parma, humanities, philology, 04 H), Prof. Habil. Dr. Jonas Palionis (VU, humanities, philology, 04 H), Prof. Habil. Dr. Zigmas Zinkevičius (VDU, humanities, philology, 04 H). Opponents: Prof. Habil. Dr. Bonifacas Stundžia (VU, humanities, philology, 04 H), Dr. Giedrius Subačius (LKI, humanities, philology, 04 H). May 5 at a public meeting of the habilitation committee, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vytautas Vitkauskas defended his habilitation thesis in the field of humanities and philology (04 H), “Morphonemic Phenomena in Lithuanian Dialects and Their Variation.” Habilitation committee: chair, Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas (LKI, humanities, philology, 04 H); members: Prof. Habil. Dr. Aleksas Girdenis (VU, humanities, philology, 04 H), Prof. Habil. Dr. Evalda Jakaitienė (VU, humanities, philology, 04 H), Habil. Dr. Simas Karaliūnas (VDU, humanities, philology, 04 H), Habil. Dr. Vitalija Maciejauskienė (LKI, humanities, philology, 04 H), Habil. Dr. Vytautas Vanagas (LLTI, humanities, philology, 04 H), Prof. Habil. Dr. Zigmas Zinkevičius (LKI, humanities, philology, 04 H). June 22 doctoral student Ona Aleknavičienė defended her doctoral dissertation, “Sources of the Pericopes in Jonas Bretkūnas’s Postil,” at a public meeting of the joint doctoral committee of LKI and VDU. The dissertation was in doctoral studies (humanities, philology, 04 H). Doctoral committee: chair, Prof. Habil. Dr. Zigmas Zinkevičius (VDU, humanities, philology, 04 H); members: Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas (LKI, humanities, philology, 04 H), Habil. Dr. Saulius Ambrazas (LKI, humanities, philology, 04 H), Dr. Kazys Morkūnas (LKI, humanities, philology, 04 H), Prof. Habil. Dr. Antanas Tyla (LII, humanities, history, 05 H). Opponents: Habil. Dr. Vytautas Vanagas (LLTI, humanities, philology, 04 H), Dr. Giedrius Subačius (LKI, humanities, philology, 04 H). July 7 at a public meeting of the habilitation committee, Dr. Giedrius Subačius defended the scholarly monograph “Ideas for a Standard Samogitian Language (Early 19th Century)” for the degree of habilitated doctor. Habilitation committee: chair, Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas (LKI, humanities, philology, 04 H); members: Habil. Dr. Saulius Ambrazas (LKI, humanities, philology, 04 H), Habil. Dr. Saulius Ambrazas (LKI, humanities, philology, 04 H), 232 lai, philology, 04 H), Prof. Habil. Dr. Aleksas Girdenis (VU, humanities, philology, 04 H), Prof. Habil. Dr. Jonas Palionis (VU, humanities, philology, 04 H), Prof. Habil. Dr. Vincas Urbutis (VU, humanities, philology, 04 H), Habil. Dr. Vytautas Vanagas (LLTI, humanities, philology, 04 H), Prof. Habil. Dr. Zigmas Zinkevičius (LKI, humanities, philology, 04 H). November 22 doctoral student Rasuolė Vladarskienė defended her doctoral dissertation, “Features of Syntactic Devices in the Language of State Documents.,” at a public meeting of the joint doctoral committee of LKI and VDU. The dissertation was in doctoral studies (humanities, philology, 04 H). Doctoral committee: chair, Dr. Pranas Kniūkšta (LKI, humanities, philology, 04 H); members: Prof. Habil. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazas (LKI, humanities, philology, 04 H), Prof. Habil. Dr. Simas Karaliūnas (VDU, humanities, philology, 04 H), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Irina Mikalk evičienė (VU, humanities, philology, 04 H), Prof. Habil. Dr. Aldona Paulauskienė (VU, humanities, philology, 04 H). Opponents: Prof. Habil. Dr. Kazimieras Župerka (Šiauliai University, humanities, philology, 04 H), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Albertas Ruzė (VU, humanities, philology, 04 H). Scientific Expeditions March 15–20 Professor Jan Peter Locher of the University of Bern, his assistants Markus Roduner and Tobias Privitellis, and doctoral student Edmundas Trumpa collected language data in the vicinity of Lukštai, Marcinkonys, Nemunėlis Radviliškis, Zarasai, and Žeimelis. Twelve informants were interviewed, and 7.5 hours of continuous texts were recorded. May 11–14 Swiss researchers Jan Peter Locher, Markus Roduner, and Simon Christen, and doctoral student Edmundas Trumpa collected language data in the vicinity of Dūkštas, Leipalingis, Reškutėnai, and Veisiejai. Eleven informants were interviewed, and 6 hours of continuous texts were recorded. June 25 – July 5 Asta Leskauskaitė (leader), Ona Aleknavičienė, Rima Bacevičiūtė, and RiČardas Petkevičius took part in a dialectological expedition in the vicinity of Seirijai (Lazdijai District). Students from Vilnius Pedagogical University undertaking practical training in dialectology also joined the expedition. July 19–30 Associate Professor Dr. Laima Grumadienė (leader), accompanied by a group of students from Vilnius Pedagogical University, took part in a dialectological expedition in the vicinity of Grybenai (Ignalina District). Institute staff also collected various language data individually: Daiva Atkočaitytė (Kražiai, Kelmė District), Aurelia Genelytė (Vaškai, Pasvalys District), Adelė Judeikienė (Šilutė, Klaipėda District), Vilija Lazauskaitė (Lazdijai, Ignalina District), Gertrūda Naktinienė (Biržai District), Zita Šimėnaitė (Alanta, Molėtai District), Jolita Urbanavičienė (Adutiškis, Švenčionys District), Vytautas Vitkauskas (the vicinity of Kuršėnai), and Asta Žukaitė (Raseiniai and Varėna Districts). 233 Card files, databases, and data banks Unique and invaluable card files: The Great Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language – approximately 4.48 million items (in 1999, 40,500 items were added); Onomastics – approximately 1.8 million items (27,180 items added); Dialectology – 1.42 million items (7,000 items added); Dialectology sound archive – 1,400 hours of dialect texts (50 hours recorded). Language Policy Information Database: 1) Card file of language recommendations (approximately 15,000 language recommendations from periodicals and specialist linguistic publications of recent decades); 2) Subject card file (bibliographic data on articles addressing various issues of language usage and linguistic education, dating from approximately 1968 onward). Card file of new loanwords and their equivalents (data from periodicals, advertising leaflets, and public signs; approximately 1,600 headwords have been collected, with usage examples filling about 220 computer pages). Computerized bank of language consultations (a collection of telephone consultations, compiled and systematized; the bank is based on consultations provided by the Department of Language Culture and also incorporates data from the Departments of Grammar and Terminology, the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language under the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, and language consultation offices in Kaunas and Šiauliai; the bank contains about 4,000 questions, organized by computer program, together with their answers). Computerized bank of old writings (a foundation for a historical dictionary of the Lithuanian language that is still being developed; for more on this, see LKK 39,192–210). Lexicographic database of Standard Lithuanian (development begun). The collection and computerization of various language data are funded by the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language under the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, within the framework of the 1996–2005 State Language Use and Development Programme. Conferences, seminars February 24–28 At the international academic conference held at the University of Oldenburg, Kasusvariation in Nominalgruppen in Sprachen verschiedenen Typs, habil. dr. Axel Holvoet delivered a paper entitled Zur Variation des possessiven Dativs mit dem abnominabalen Genitiv im Baltishen. March 2–3 The 28th academic and methodological conference for university lecturers and postgraduate students was held at Saint Petersburg State University, Problems of Baltic Phonetics and Accentology. Papers were delivered by the Institute’s doctoral students: Daiva Atkočaitytė (Shortening of Unstressed Syllables in the Raseiniai Subdialect of Southern Samogitian), Vilija Lazauskaitė (On the Oxytone Accentuation of o-Stem Nouns in the Vilnius Subdialect of Eastern Aukštaitian and the Southern Aukštaitian Dialects), Asta Leskauskaitė (The Word-Final Vocalism of the Southwestern 234 Southern Aukštaitian Dialects), Edmundas Trumpa (Vowel Quality after Alveolar Consonants in the Pelesa Dialect). March 9 The 60th anniversary of the founding of the Institute of Lithuanian Studies was commemorated at the academic conference Lithuanian Studies: Traditions, Present, Prospects. Papers at the conference, organized by three institutes—the Institute of the Lithuanian Language, the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, and the Lithuanian Institute of History—were delivered by: Prof. habil. dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas (Six Decades of Lithuanian Linguistics), Assoc. Prof. dr. Danguolė Mikulėnienė (The 1996–2005 Programme for the Use and Development of the State Language of the Republic of Lithuania and Its Significance for Lithuanian Studies), and dr. Giedrius Subačius (Lithuanian Studies in the USA). Prof. habil. dr. Vytautas Ambrazas and dr. Pranas Kniūkšta took part in the discussions. The conference participants were welcomed by Valdas Adamkus, President of the Republic of Lithuania; Prof. habil. dr. Benediktas Juodka, President of the Academy of Sciences; Prof. habil. dr. Antanas Kaminskas, Rector of Vytautas Magnus University; and Prof. habil. dr. Algimantas Matulionis, Director of the Institute of Culture and Art. The conference was supported by the Lithuanian State Science and Studies Foundation. An exhibition of scholarly publications was held. Irena Andriukaitienė and dr. Kazys Morkūnas served on the conference organizing committee representing the three institutions. The academic papers were published in a separate volume. March 25 Papers were delivered at a seminar organized by the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language under the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, Pranas Skardžius: Theorist and Developer of the Standard Language, by: Assoc. Prof. dr. Stasys Keinys (Pranas Skardžius’s Terminological Works and Ideas), Assoc. Prof. dr. Danguolė Mikulėnienė (Criteria for Selecting Lithuanian Equivalents of International Words), and dr. Pranas Kniūkšta (Pranas Skardžius’s View of Adjectives in the Suffix -inis and Their Present-Day Usage). April 17 Papers at a seminar organized by the council of the Lithuanian Language Society were delivered by dr. Jonas Klimavičius (The Russification of Phraseology in Independent Lithuania) and Assoc. Prof. dr. Danguolė Mikulėnienė (Foreign Words in the Local Press). April 23 At the academic seminar Dialects: Studies by Young Linguists, held at the Centre for Dialectology of the Faculty of Humanities of Šiauliai University, papers were delivered by Vilija Lazauskaitė (On Presenting Accentuation Variants in Dialect Dictionaries) and Asta Leskauskaitė (A Couple of Remarks on Southern Aukštaitian Locatives). April 28 At the academic conference held in Kaunas, Vytautas Magnus University in the Transformation of Lithuanian Society and Science, 1989–1999 habil. dr. Simas Karaliūnas delivered a paper entitled Research on Onomastics and Lithuanian Ethnogenesis. April 29 At a conference held at Vytautas Magnus University to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of linguist Alfred Senn, Prof. habil. dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas delivered a paper entitled A Scholar Who Loved Lithuania. May 14 At the academic conference Relics of the Languages and Cultures of the Western Balts (3), held at Klaipėda University, habil. dr. Saulius Ambrazas delivered a paper entitled Several Isoglosses of Lithuanian and Prussian. May 20 At the academic conference of Šiauliai Pedagogical University, Work on Language Culture: Experience and Problems, Assoc. Prof. dr. Danguolė Mikulėnienė delivered a paper entitled Elite Language as a Direction for Developing the Standard Language. 235 On May 25, Dr. Pranas Kniūkšta led a seminar for employees of various institutions at the Vilnius Teachers’ House on records management and matters of office administration and language culture. The participants were introduced to business correspondence and general aspects of office language culture, developments in office language, and regulatory documents concerning records management. Document forms and the formatting of correspondence were also discussed. On October 7, at the Jonas Jablonskis Conference Change in Norms and Usage, held at the Faculty of Philology of Vilnius University, presentations were delivered by: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Danguolė Mikulėnienė (Public Language: Norm and Usage), Dr. Gertrūda Naktinienė (“The Dictionary of Standard Lithuanian⟧ and Problems of Language Standardization), Dr. Daiva Murmulytė (“Computerization of the Dictionary of Standard Lithuanian), Asta Ryklienė (Electronic Lithuanian: Norms and Non-norms), Dr. Rita Miliūnaitė (Degrees of Evaluation of Language Phenomena in “Kalbos patarėjas” (1939)), Dr. Pranas Kniūkšta (Unusual Cases of Describing States), Ramunė Vaskelaitė (Use of the Locative with Nouns: Norm and Usage Tendencies), and Jurga Girčienė (Problems in the Adaptation of New Loanwords). The conference abstracts were published as a separate volume. On October 9, Institute employees participated in the Congress of Lithuanian Scientists, Lithuanian Science at the Turn of the Millennia. Presentations and discussions were held on the theme The State of Lithuanian Science Today: Problems and Prospects. On October 16, at the scientific conference of Kaunas Medical University, Dr. Angelė Kaulakienė delivered a presentation entitled The Possibilities and Reality of Teaching Professional Language at a Technical University. October 16–20, at the Norway–Baltic Symposium organized by the Department of Scandinavian Studies of Vilnius University, doctoral student Sigita Rackevičienė delivered a presentation entitled The Expression of Causation in the Languages of the Northern Baltic Region. On October 20, at the scientific conference of Kaunas University of Technology, Lexicon: A Reflection of Social Development, presentations were delivered by: Dr. Angelė Kaulakienė (Statistical Evaluation of Term Length; the presentation was prepared jointly with E. Makariūnienė), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Stasys Keinys (The Role of Terminology in Modern Life), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Danguolė Mikulėnienė (Principles for Finding and Selecting Lithuanian Equivalents of International Words), and doctoral student Jolanta Gaivenytė (Lithuanian Two-Word Names of Physical Quantities and Their English Equivalents). October 21–22, at the international conference Mikalojus Daukša and the Cultural Context of His Time, organized by the Department of Baltic Philology of Vilnius University, presentations were delivered by: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Juozas Karaciejus (Mikalojus Daukša’s “Postilė” in the Cultural Context of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the End of the 16th Century), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Danguolė Mikulėnienė (On the Development of Stress in Suffixed Nouns), Vilija Lazauskaitė (The Stress of Mikalojus Daukša: Proofreading Errors or Stress Variants?), Jūratė Pajėdienė and Dr. Artūras Judžentis (Complex Sentences with įdant and jog in Mikalojus Daukša’s Catechism), and Audra Ivanauskienė (Tendencies in Changes to Noun Declension Types, Based on Mikalojus Daukša’s “Postilė”). 236 October 21–22, at the conference of Klaipėda University’s Faculty of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology in Western Lithuania: The Present and Prospects of Electrical Engineering, Dr. Jonas Klimavičius delivered a presentation (Dictionary of Electrical Engineering Terms: Questions of Terminology and Standardization; the presentation was prepared jointly with R. Mukulis, S. Žebrauskas, and A. Smilgevičius). On November 9, at the conference The Information Society in Lithuania: Situation and Prospects, held at the Academy of Sciences, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Danguolė Mikulėnienė delivered a presentation entitled The Lithuanian Language in the Information Society. On November 25, at the conference of the Liepāja Pedagogical Academy, Vārds un tā petīšanas aspekti, presentations were delivered by: Rima Bacevičiūtė (Some Vocalic Features of the Southern Western Aukštaitian Dialects), Asta Leskauskaitė (Isolated Vowels in the Kučiūnai Subdialect), Ričiardas Petkevičius (Consonant-Stem Nouns in the 1685 Edition of the New Testament), and Edmundas Trumpa (The Quality of i-Type Vowels in the Pelesa Subdialect of the Southern Aukštaitian Dialect). Other Events On January 20, the public was introduced to the revised and expanded edition of Advice on Official Language Usage in the Grand Hall of Vilnius City Municipality. The event was initiated by language editor Albina Šiupienienė. The new book and current issues in official language usage were discussed by the volume’s editor, Dr. Pranas Kniūkšta; the Chair of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Danguolė Mikulėnienė; the head of the Language Inspectorate, Donatas Smalinskas; and Habil. Dr. Nijolė Sližienė. Dana Vainauskienė introduced the computer version of Advice on Official Language Usage. On March 23, the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences and the Scientists’ Palace organized an event to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of linguist Pranas Skardžius. Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas gave a detailed account of the state of linguistics in Lithuania and at Vilnius University before Pranas Skardžius. Prof. Habil. Dr. Albertas Rosinas delivered an extensive paper on the distinguished linguist’s scholarly and public activities. Academician Zigmas Zinkevičius shared his memories of Pranas Skardžius. On March 24, the 1998 publications of the Institute were presented in the hall of the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore. The works prepared were discussed by Habil. Dr. Nijolė Sližienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Laima Grumadienė, Dr. Vida Žilinskienė, Dr. Pranas Kniūkšta, Dr. Rita Miliūnaitė, Dr. Kazimieras Gaivenis, and Dr. Kazys Morkūnas. The event was organized by Irena Andriukaitienė and chaired by Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas. On March 26, the 100th anniversary of Pranas Skardžius’s birth was commemorated in the town of Subačius. The events were attended by scholars Zigmas Zinkevičius, Albertas Rosinas, and Aloyzas Vidugiris. At the conference A Living Language—a Living Nation, Dr. Aloyzas Vidugiris delivered a paper entitled The Lithuanian Language and Subačius. At the secondary school, the scholars met with Lithuanian-language teachers; at the library, they met with the public. On April 30, the Institute’s Director, Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas, attended celebrations marking the tenth anniversary of the restoration of Vytautas Magnus University. 237 On May 6, the Scientists’ Palace of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences held a science day, A Glimpse into the 21st Century, at Žemyna Gymnasium. Dr. Kazys Morkūnas took part in the meeting between the scholars, pupils, and teachers. On June 12, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Juozas Karaciejus gave a lecture on the linguistic features of K. Lukauskas’s Sermons at a methodological conference held in Troškūnai. On June 16, a commemoration of the 180th anniversary of the birth of Antanas Juška, collector of Lithuanian folk songs and recorder of wedding rites, was held in the Small Hall of the Academy of Sciences. Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas surveyed Antanas Juška’s lexicographical work. On August 12, a new publication, Archivum Lithuanicum 1, was presented to the public at the National Picture Gallery. Its editor-in-chief, Habil. Dr. Giedrius Subačius, surveyed the first issue of the annual scholarly journal, symbolically linking it with the approaching millennium of the name Lithuania. The new linguistics publication and its place among other prestigious scholarly publications in the humanities were discussed by Prof. Habil. Dr. Bonifacas Stundžia, Prof. Habil. Dr. Eugenija Ulčinaitė, Habil. Dr. Egidijus Aleksandravičius, and others. The event was chaired by Dr. Jolanta Gelumbeckaitė. On September 7, the Institute’s Director, Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas, attended events organized by the Embassy of the Republic of Latvia with Latvia’s President, Vaira Vyke-Freiberga, who was making her first official visit to Lithuania. On September 16, a discussion of the publication Encyclopedia of the Lithuanian Language was held in the hall of the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore. The event was organized by Irena Andriukaitienė and chaired by Prof. Habil. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazas. The authors were represented by Prof. Habil. Dr. Aleksas Girdenis and Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas. The new book was discussed by Lithuanian-American linguist Dr. Antanas Klimas; the Chair of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language under the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Danguolė Mikulėnienė; the editor of the Institute of Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing, Dr. Antanas Balašaitis; and Prof. Habil. Dr. Zigmas Zinkevičius. On September 29, summer dialectological expeditions to the areas around Grybėnai, Kražiai, and Seirijai were discussed in the Department of the History of Language and Dialectology. Pupils from Simono Daukanto Secondary School spoke about their educational expedition to the village of Barkuškė (Ignalina District). On October 18, the 90th anniversary of Kostas Korsakas, critic, literary scholar, poet, and translator, was commemorated at the Maironis Museum of Lithuanian Literature. Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas attended the anniversary afternoon event. On November 9, at the seminar The Brothers Grimm—Life and Work held at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library, Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas delivered a paper entitled Jacob Grimm—Founder of Comparative Linguistics. An exhibition from the Brothers Grimm Museum in Kassel was also on display. On November 12, the 120th anniversary of the birth of Lithuanian linguist Kazimieras Būga was commemorated. Anniversary events were held in the scholar’s birthplace, Pažiegė, and at the Zarasai Regional Museum. Many distinguished Lithuanian linguists attended the celebrations. The Institute was represented by Dr. Kazys Morkūnas and Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas. 238 At a meeting with the public, Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas. spoke about Kazimieras Būga’s personality and scholarly work. December 15–17, the Lithuanian Language Institute Press took part with its latest publications in the traditional book fair held at the Lithuanian Technical Library. On December 17, a conference to elect members of the Lithuanian Science Council was held in the hall of the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore. Seven candidates were nominated for a six-year term in the humanities. Prof. Habil. Dr. Simas Karaliūnas (VDU) and Habil. Dr. Nijolė Laurinienė (LLTI) also took part in the conference and spoke. The event was chaired by the Council’s chairman, Prof. Habil. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazas. Research Visits and Business Trips August 15–21, doctoral students Asta Leskauskaitė and Edmundas Trumpa took part in a summer camp organized by the Institute of Baltic Studies at the University of Greifswald. At the dialectologists’ seminar, they presented papers on the subjects of their doctoral dissertations. September 1–December 31, Dr. Jolanta Gelumbeckaitė held a fellowship awarded by the Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft program and undertook a research stay at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel. October 22–November 1, Dr. Ona Aleknavičienė worked at the Institute of Baltic Studies at the University of Greifswald. Institute Visitors On March 9, Dr. Björnac Wiemeris, a researcher at the University of Konstanz, visited the Department of Grammar. The guest was interested in interference between Lithuanian and Slavic languages in peripheral dialects. He spoke with Prof. Habil. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazas, Habil. Dr. Nijolė Sl采žienė, and Habil. Dr. Adelė Valeckienė. On March 25, Professor Janas Peteris Locheris of the University of Bern and his colleagues Markus Roduneris, Tobias Privitellis met with the Institute’s administration. On April 13, a group of students from Vilnius Simono Daukanto Secondary School visited the Institute. They spoke with Dr. Kazys Morkūnas and doctoral student Edmundas Trumpa. On April 15, Dr. Kęstutis Juškevičius and Evaldas Ožeraitis, researchers from the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, visited the Institute. They were consulted about upgrading the research equipment. On May 6, Dr. Marija Zavjalova, a guest from Moscow, visited the Institute. On May 10, the Swiss scholar Janas Peteris Locheris and his assistants Markus Roduneris, Simonas Christenas visited the Institute. They spoke with Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas, Dr. Kazys Morkūnas, and Prof. Habil. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazas. 239 June 2 The Lithuanian-language specialists from the Naujoji Vilnia Teachers’ Seminary learned about the scholarly activities and work of the major *Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language*, Onomastics, and Language History and Dialectology departments. The introductory tour of these Institute divisions was led by Associate Professor, Habilitated Doctor Vytautas Vitkauskas, Doctor Laimutis Bilkis, and Doctor Aloyzas Vidugiris. June 3 A research fellow from the University of Riverside, Jules Levinas, visited the Grammar Department. Professor, Habilitated Doctor Vytautas Ambrazas advised the guest on issues concerning Lithuanian morphology. June 9 Doctor Christiane Shiller, a guest from the Institute of Baltic Studies at the University of Greifswald, visited the Language History and Dialectology Department. She was interested in dialect texts recorded in Lithuania Minor and the Klaipėda Region. Habilitated Doctor Saulius Ambrazas, Doctor Giedrius Subačius, and Doctor Aloyzas Vidugiris assisted the guest. June 17 Professor Anatolijus Nepokupnas, head of a department at the A. Potebnia Institute of Linguistics of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, visited the Institute. He took an interest in the linguists’ work and scholarly activities. The guest was presented with the latest publications. September 16 Lithuanian-American linguist Doctor Antanas Klimas visited the Institute’s administration and also took part in a discussion of the recently published Encyclopedia of the Lithuanian Language. The guest stressed that this important and significant book should be published in English, and promised his help and support. October 20 Polish linguist Professor Wojciechas Smoczyńskis visited the Institute. November 11 Students in grades 9–12 from Kaišiadorys Secondary School visited the Institute. The introductory tour for them was led by Doctor Kazys Morkūnas, Doctor Laimutis Bilkis, doctoral student Edmundas Trumpa, and assistant Vidmantas Kuprevičius. November 16 Scientists Romanas Roszko and Danuta Roszko from the Institute of Slavic Studies in Warsaw visited the Institute’s administration. The latest scholarly publications were exchanged. People and Dates On March 1, the Institute’s directors, Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas and Dr. Kazys Morkūnas, congratulated the distinguished folklorist Prof. Habil. Dr. Kazys Grigas on the occasion of his 75th birthday. On March 4, Dr. Kazys Morkūnas, Deputy Director for Research, turned 70. Colleagues, friends, and well-wishers congratulated the jubilarian. On June 11, the Senate of Vytautas Magnus University awarded the title of professor to Habil. Dr. Simas Karaliūnas. On June 18, Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas and Dr. Kazys Morkūnas congratulated linguist Jonas Palionis on behalf of the Institute on his 75th birthday. On July 26, the Institute’s director, Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas, turned 70. The distinguished anniversary was commemorated on September 16. 240 On September 5, Latvian linguist Habil. Dr. Aina Blinkena turned 70. Remembering the friendship that connected the scholar with Lithuanian linguists, the Institute’s administration sent her its heartfelt congratulations. On December 30, by Order No. 586 of Andrius Kubilius, Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania, Dr. Laimutis Bilkis was awarded the 2000 state scholarship for young researchers. Losses. In memoriam On January 9, the Norwegian Balticist and sincere friend of Lithuanian linguists, Professor Terje Mathiassen, died. On April 11, marking the fourth anniversary of the death of Aleksandras Vanagas (1934 08 12–1995 04 13), Holy Mass was celebrated at St. Nicholas Church. On the eve of what would have been his 65th birthday, a monument was erected on his grave. On September 29, Dr. Elena Grinaveckienė, senior research associate in the Department of the History of the Lithuanian Language and Dialectology, died. She was buried in her native Jurbarkas. *** The new internet address of the Institute of the Lithuanian Language website: http://www.lki.lt Irena Andriukaitienė 241