Lietuvių kalbos instituto kronika. 1997
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LITHUANIAN LANGUAGES INSTITUTO CHRONICLE 1997 Structure Since the 1997 day of January 2 The Institute was headed by Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas. Jo deputies dr. — Kazys Morkin (for scientific purposes) ir Kęstutis Jurkūnas (general affairs). Scientific secretary dr. — Artūras Yugentis. : The Institute operated six departments: Zodynes (head — doc. Dr. Vytautas Vitkauskas- ), Grammar (head of — prof. Habil. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazas), Vardyno (manager habil. — Dr. Vitalija Maciejauskienė), Terminology (manager — dr. Kazys History of Linguistics History of ir Linguistics (manager — dr. Kazys Morkūnas), Language culture (manager — dr. Pranas Kniūkšta). Worked The publishing group (wedja — Audronė Stanislavski). 1997 at the end of the year The Institute 117 employed iš jų 86 staff, researchers, 31 scientists, (2 habilitated doctors, professors, 5 habilitated doctors, 5 doctors, doctors). 19 Į joint Institute ir Jolanta Gaivenytė, Asta Leskauskaitė, Loreta Vaičiulytė, Rolandas Mikulskas, Sigutė Rackevičienė and Dana Vainauskienė have accepted the doctoral program at Vytautas Magnus University from 15 September. The following are the main activities of the Institute, which were established by the Decree No. 399 of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania of 21 March 1995 on the list of state scientific institutes: research on lexicology and lexicography of the Lithuanian language, grammar structure, dialects, nomenclature, terminology development; studies of the history of the Lithuanian language and linguistic relations, studies of the current functioning of the Lithuanian language in society and its normalization. At the end of 1997, the Institute’s scientific work was evaluated by an expert committee (headed by Prof. Romualdas Apanavičius, Ph.D.) appointed by the Ministry of Education and Science. She evaluated the work of the Institute in many respects well and suggested developing fundamental research, publishing more articles in foreign scientific press, more integration into global science. On January 21, at the general meeting of the Institute’s staff, the report of the scientific secretary Artūras Judžentis on the Institute’s research work in the past year and the plans for the new year was heard, and the statements of the report were discussed. 261
ir ‘October 6 d. at the meeting of the Institute's scientists somewhat changed Composition of the Council: į refused to work in it habil. Dr. Vitalija Maciejauskienės publicly elected tą habil. Dr. Simas King. November 11 d. meeting met su The members of the expert group evaluating the scientific activities of the Institute were prof. Habil. Dr. Romualdu Athanasius, prof. Habil. Dr. Juozu Kuliu doc. ir Dr. Alfred A bumblebee. The criteria for evaluating the humanities and the Institute’s recent research work were discussed. The most important decisions of the Institute Council February 18 d. Council meeting discuss1996 ed years Institute- 's scientific activity report ir 1997 annual plans, new Attestation Commission (Saulius Ambrazas, Angelė Kaulakienė, Pranas Kniūkšta, Marytė Razmukaitė, Nijolė Sližienė, Zita Šimėnaitė, Aloyzas Vidugiris), approved for press Language Culture 69 notebook, approved the agreement of scientific cooperation with the Faculty of Philology of St. Petersburg State University and discussed the agreement of scientific cooperation with the Department of Lithuanian Linguistics of Vilnius Pedagogical University ir Lithuanian Language Departments Project. On February 28, the draft regulations of the Institute for doctoral studies and the awarding of degrees were discussed, the agreement of scientific cooperation with the Department of Lithuanian Language of the Faculty of Philology of the Šiauliai Pedagogical Institute and the Centre of Ethnoculture and Dialectology was approved, the results of the staff attestation were approved, and Dr. Kazys Garšva was instructed to submit the work on the Schneckets of the Lithuanian Outskirts to the Department of Language History and Dialectology for consideration. Press releases approved on May 15: Aloyzas Vidugiris. Dictionary of the Zietelos schnekt; The King's Man. Language and society; Language Advice Information Bulletin I, Regina Sedekerskytė, Adelė Ubeikaitė. Lithuanian Linguistics (1977-1980). Index of literature. The direction of further lexicographic work chosen by the Dictionaries Section and the main principles of this work set out in the prospectus were approved. The proposal to publish a new (computerized and polygraphic) version of the academic Lithuanian language dictionary, including necessary additions and corrections, was approved. The draft of the scientific cooperation agreement with the Faculty of Philology of Vilnius University was discussed. The decisions of the Attestation Commission were approved, it was decided to grant doctoral students 56 calendar days of paid leave each year. On June 18, 1997, Adele Valeckienė- ’s printed Functional Grammar of Lithuanian Language and Sapūno-Shulco grammar were approved, the results of the staff attestation were approved, the procedures for the election and re-election of the heads of the Institute’s departments were established, and a committee for the admission of doctoral students of the Institute was formed. 2 D AO
The general 17 parts of the doctoral study programmes were approved at the September meeting; Competition for Heads of Departments of the Institute (published in 1997 09 10 No. 15) the Commission; decided to convene a meeting of scientists mą Adjust the composition of the Council. The author of a series of monographs on the pronouns of Baltic languages, Prof. Habil. Dr. A/bertas Rošinas; candidates į Board of the Lithuanian ir State Science Studies ba Foundationproposed by doc. Dr. Danguolė Mikulėnienė; Vidmantas Kuprevičius, a doctoral student, was proposed as a candidate for Evelina Masiokienés Kolupailaite’s one-time scholarship. Confirmed by Dr. Danutė Marija Liutkevičienė- ’s report on her mission to Belgium; decided to allow a doctoral student To Laimučiui Bilkis to finish writing the dissertation jo without changing the status until 1998 m. of March 31d. | October 31 d. elected heads of departments (prof. — Habil. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazas, Department of Language — Culture, Dr. Pranas Kniūkšta, Department of Terminol- — ogy, Dr. Kazys Gaivenis, Dictionaries — Department doc. Dr. Vytautas Vitkauskas); approved by doctoral students Jolanta Gaivenytė, Astos Leskauskaitės, Rolandas Mikulsko, Loretos Vaičiulytės ir Composition of Dana Vainauskienė’s doctoral committees; approved new United States LKI ir Composition of the VDU ir doctoral habilitation committee (Vytautas Ambrazas, Artūras Judžentis, Simas Karaliūnas, Albertas Rosinas, Algirdas Sabaliauskas, Nijolė Sližienė, Zigmas Zinkevičius); approved for publication Volume 38 of Lithuanian Linguistics Issues, Notebook 4 of Terminology, Parts 2 and 3 of the Language Advice Information Bulletin; hearing and approval of the report of assistant Milda Lučinskienė on her participation in the international seminar on Text diversity in medieval texts in Sofia; it was decided to allow doctoral student Vidmantas Kuprevičius until 31 March 1998. finish writing the dissertation without changing the status. On December 12, the printed monographs of Elena Valiulytė Syntactic Synonyms of Contemporary Lithuanian Language, Danguolė Mikulėnienė and Kazis Morkūnas Dieveniškių schnektas texts, and the jo Notebook of Language Culture 70 were approved, and it was decided to prepare and publish a collection of writings by Jon Kruop and a booklet about the Lithuanian Language Institute. The results of the staff attestation, the composition of the doctoral committee of the doctoral candidate Sigita Rackevičienė and the extension of the scientific cooperation agreement with the Ukrainian A. Potebnia Institute of Linguistics were approved. It was decided to submit Laimutis Bilkis’s publications on Lithuanian helonyms research to the Young Scientists’ Research Papers Competition. The Vice-Chairman of the Institute Council was elected habil. dr. Nigel Slattery. The meeting also discussed the issues of awarding prizes to the Institute’s employees and formed the awarding committee. On July 8-15, in the vicinity of Mosėdis, Skuodas district, the researchers collected words for the vocabulary of this schnekt, answered the questions of the questionnaires for the study of dialects and their inter263
rašė Vita Frantskūnaitė (expedition leader), Ona Aleknavičienė, Asta Leskauskaité, Ričardas Petkevičius it Edmundas Trump. In the month of July, dialectological expeditions, working in Ignalina district Gubava, Kazitiškis neighborhoods (leader Laima Grumadienė), Raseiniai district Eržvilkas neighborhood (manager Daiva Atkočaitytė), participated ir po dozens Vilnius Pedagogical University. The phono library of the Department of Language History and ir Dialectology has been supplemented with texts recorded on magnetic tapes from other places: į ir iš Pelesos (Gudija; Edmundas Short), Lukšių (Scottish Highlands). ; Rima Bacevičiūtė), Linkmenų (Ignalinos raj. ; Vytautas Kardelis), Žiobiškio (Rokiškio raj. ; Artūras Judžentis), Kučiūnų (Lazdijų raj. ; Asta Leskauskaitė), Skardupių (Marijampolės raj. ; Ona Around the Neighborhood. Conferences, seminars February 19 d. In the seminar held ir in the hall of the Lithuanian Literature Folklore Institute iš į The monsters were shared by Prof. Habil. Dr. Jonas Palionis, about Baltic studies in Finland told habil. Dr. Simas King. February 20 d. Latvian Language Institute (Riga) at the scientific conference Leksikografijas teorija prakse (Lexicography theory in ir practice), dedicated to the 124th un anniversary of the birth of academician Jūgis Endzelins, lectures were read by Dr. Kazimieras Garšva (Lituanisms in Latvian language) and Vidmantas Kuprevičius (On thematic groups of the manuscript of an unknown author of the middle of the 19th century Lithuanian Highland Oriental — Polish Languages Dictionary (RtŽ)). On April 14-18, 2018, PhD student Jolanta Gelumbeckaitė presented a paper on the relationship between prepositional and conjunctive constructions in the Latin Vulgate and the Translation into Old Lithuanian by Jonas Bretkūnas (J. Bretke) at the Ninth International Colloguium on Latin Linguistics, held in Madrid, Spain. On the Relation of Prepositional Phrases with Cases). On 28 April, at the conference Problems of Theatre, Questions of National Dramaturgy, organized by the Society of Theatre History and Traditions in the Arts Workers’ Hall, doc. dr. Vytautas Vitkauskas read a presentation on the language of our stage. Asta Leskauskaitė (Kučiūnų šnekto vokalizmas) presented a paper at the First Lithuanian Student Lithuanianists Scientific Conference, organized by Vilnius University on 9 May. On May 13, Professor Algirdas Sabaliauskas read a presentation on Martynas Mažvydas in Lithuanian Linguistics at the Mažvydas Day organized by the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. 264
On May 28, the Department of Baltic Philology of Vilnius University hosted a visit from Professor Wojciech Smoczynski of the University of Krakow. In the Kazimieras Boge Auditorium the guest lectured on the Problems of Prussian Paleography, which was listened to ir by a large number of employees and doctoral students of the Institute. On May 30, the Department of Language History and Dialectology of the Institute convened a meeting of dialectologists, which was attended by doc. dr. Janina Švambarytė from Šiauliai, dr. Zofija Babickienė from Vilnius University, Rita Urnėžiūtė, deputy editor of the Mother Tongue, and others. The meeting discussed topical issues of methodology of dialect material collection, coordination of work, information exchange. The meeting was chaired by Dr. Kazys Morkūnas. of June 4 d. Kaunas University of Technology Department of Lithuanian Language and Department of Terminology of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences of Kaunas University of Technology held an international conference on the problem of language in technical sciences. (On the understanding of terminology work), Kazimieras Gaivenis ir Angel Kaulakienė (Linguistic ir evaluation of technical terminology), Nijolė Banevičienė (Defects in the definitions of technical terms standards), Jolanta Gaivenytė (Comparing the structures of Lithuanian and English four-word technical terms), Albina Auksoriūtė (Some cases of synonymy in the latest computer terminology dictionaries). The conference was attended by guests from the Latvian Language Institute. On June 10, in the Academy of Sciences a new hypothesis of the origin of the name Lithuania was presented by Dr. The King's Man. The discussion was led by Professor Algirdas Sabaliauskas. The discussion was attended by doc. dr. Romas Batūra, Dr. Artūras Dubonis, Prof. habil. dr. Edvardas Gudavičius and other historians and linguists. On June 17, at the morning session of the XVII Congress of the Lithuanian Catholic Academy of Sciences, which was chaired by professors Birutė Ciplijauskaitė and Zigmas Zinkevičius, Juozas Karaciejus read a report (Attempt to standardize Lithuanian written language in the 16th century); In the afternoon session, which was chaired by Drs. Antanė Kučinskaitė and Klementina Vosylytė, reports were read by Ona Aleknavičienė (on the authorship of John Bretkūn’s Postilla passages), Jolanta Gelumbeckaitė (Latin constructions in John Bretkūn’s translation of the Gospel according to Luke) and Milda Lučinskienė (comparison of the 1647 and 1705 editions of John Jaknavičius’ Gospels). On July 1 and 2, Vilnius Pedagogical Institute hosted the conference of the World Lithuanian Association Lithuanian Studies in the World Today: Work and Problems. Researchers of the Institute also participated and spoke in the discussion. On August 20-23, 2016, the Institute’s researchers attended the Second Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe Values and Norms in Changing Societies, organized by Vilnius University and the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences (prof. Algirdas Sabaliauskas was a member of its programme committee). 265
September 5-8 d. PhD student Jolanta Gelumbeckaitė at the Fifth International Congress of Late Latin Folk Language in ir Heidelberg (V International Congress3 iiber Vulgurund Spatlatein) read a report on the language of the Latin scriptures of St. Jerome (St. Jerome: Christian or Ciceronian Latin? Evidence from the Syntax of his Writings). September 22-25 d. Vytautas Zinkevičius participated in the Fifth European Conference on Language Communication Technologies organized by the European Speech Communication Association (ESCO) ir (5" European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology). The conference featured a presentation on the structure of dialogue (Generality and Transferability: Two Issues in Putting a Dialog Evaluation Tool into Practical Use), prepared by him and his Danish colleagues Niels Ole Bernsen, Hans Dybkjær and Laila Dybkjar. The conference was held in Rodo (Rhodes) island Greece. October 3 d. Vilnius University Faculty of Philology Institute The Department of Language Culture and the Department of Lithuanian Language of the University of Vilnius organized a conference on Jonas Jablonskis Language Culture: Tradition and Present. Thirteen papers were presented in three conference sessions chaired by Pranas Kniūkšta and Asta Kupčinskaitė, Aldona Paulauskienė and Loreta Vaicekauskienė, Vitas Labutis and Jurga Girčienė. From the Institute, Jurga Girčienė (We need a new approach to the new foreignness- ), Pranas Kniūkšta (National, national, state and state), Asta Kupčinskaitė (Textual linguistics and/or computer-aided research of authentic language), Danguolė Mikulėnienė (Administrative supervision of the correctness of the state language), Rita Miliūnaitė (From the old to the new edition of the KPP), Loreta Vaicekauskienė (Speaking language still waiting for its turn) and Rasuolė Vladarskienė (Syntactic expression of accuracy in the language of state documents) read their papers, answered questions and participated in the discussions. Researchers from Vilnius University, Vilnius Pedagogical University, Šiauliai University, Kaunas Medical Academy and the Language Inspection also delivered presentations at the conference. The next conference of Jon Jablonskis, to be held in the coming year, will discuss new language phenomena and their evaluation. On October 7-9, the Institute together with Vilnius University and the International Baltic Association organized the Eighth International Baltic Congress on the Baltic Language in the 16th and 17th Centuries. The Congress is dedicated to the 450th anniversary of the first Lithuanian book — the Catechism of Martin Mažvydas. In the Congress organizational committee (Chairman — Prof. Dr. Bonifacas Stundžia) worked the Director of the Institute Prof. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas (vice-chairman), prof. habil. dr. Vytautas Ambrazas and habil. dr. The King's Man. The Congress was divided into five sections: written language, lexicology and lexicography, etymology and onomastics, morphology and syntax, phonetics, phonology and accentology. From the Institute, the sections were headed by Vytautas Ambrazas (Morphology and Syntax Section, together with Audrone Kaukiene) and Simas Karaliūnas (Etymology Onomastics Section, together with 266
ir su Pietru Umbertu Diniu). Plenary du meetings were held. Iš total read over seventy messages. Į The congress was iš attended by scientists from twelve foreign countries: Latvia, Poland, Germany, Russia, Italy, USA, Netherlands, Switzerland, Norway, Finland, Estonia; Ukraine. Thirteen lectures at the Congress Staff of the Institute (twelve messages): Ona Aleknavičienė (J. The question of the authorship of Bretkūnas's "Postilas" passages), Saulius Ambrazas ir Vytautas Zinkevičius (Historical Dictionary of Lithuanian Language computerization of ancient writings), ir Vytautas Ambrazas (Translations XVI-XVII a. Lithuanian writings as sources of historical syntax), Nijolė Čepienė (Ion Bretkūno Biblical Germanisms), Kazimieras Garšva (Development of the phonetics of the Linuva schnekt), Jolanta Gelumbeckaitė (Postpositional substitutes J. Bretkūno "The Gospel according to Luke” translation), Simas King (Etnomo jétvingis structure ir origin), Gina Kavaliūnaitė (Influence of the Dutch source Samuel Boguslavas Chylinskis New Testament translation), Vilija Lazauskaitė (For u-stem adjectives ir jų abstract su suffix -umas root pronunciation), Evija Lipartė (On the translation of particular verbs in the vacu language G. Mancela works), Milda Lučinskienė (J. Jaknavičiaus 1647 m. ir 1705 m. „Ewangelie polskie y litewskie“ some language differences), Danguolė Mikulėnienė (For circumflex metatonia in stitches). Presentation of new books on Baltic studies, trip for congress participants po Literary Places of Anykščiai. October 16-18 d. Warsaw ir International Conference Sociolinguistic Psycholinguistic Language Situations, ir organized by Vilnius Universities in Vilnius ir Conditions in Vilnius Region (Socio-psycholinguisi tic conditions of the language situation in Vilnius and Wilno region) in Warsaw lectures read Laima Grumadienė (Lietuvių slavų kalbų sąveika ir Southeast Lithuania) ir Edmundas Trumpa (Some Peculiarities of Peleso Lithuanian dialect — Some features of the Lithuanian dialect in the village of Pelesa). The program also included the presentations of Aloyzas Vidugiris (From the history of Lithuanian dialect research in Vilnius region) and Nijolė Tuomienė (Some peculiarities of the Lithuanian dialect of Ramaškoniai village). On October 31, 2016, the doctoral student Ona Aleknavičienė read a presentation on the theme “Symbolic Conception of Man in Old Lithuanian Culture” at the conference “The Symbolic Conception of Man in Jono Bretkūno Postila”. On November 20, the Institute of Language History and Dialectology organized the Conference of Young Linguists. Conference organizational committee: Daiva Atkočaitytė, Vilija Lazauskaitė, Asta Leskauskaitė, Edmundas Trumpa. Twelve papers were read in the three sessions of the conference, nine of them by the Institute’s staff: Daiva Atkočaitytė (Collateral accents in the South Samogitian Raseiniškiai dialects), Albina Auksoriūtė (Terminological legacy of Laurynas Ivinskis), Laimutis Bilkis (On the phenomenon of the lateral accent “u” in Lithuanian helonymy), Vidas Garliauskas (Lithuanian oikonimų genders in the 16th-19th century historical sources. Lithuanian words and phrases in 16th-17th century manuscripts), Vilija Lazauskaitė (On the presentation of dzūkijos in the “Dictionary of Contemporary Lithuanian Language”), Asta 267
Leskauskaitės (For Kučiūnų šnektos vowel phoneme systems), Vilijos Sakalauskienės (Semantics of Power and its ir Expression in Lithuanian Language), Edmundas Trumpas (Among other things, he was the author of a book on the morphology of the language, The Linguistics of the Language.) Posts read by guests: nė ir Romualdas Apanavičius (Ide. primary semantic meaning of the root *tuer-2) iš Asta Kazlauskienė (The length of open and closed vowels in the South-West Highland dialect) from Vytautas Magnus University and Everita Milčonoka (Morphological variants of nouns in G. Mancelio’s “Lettische postill” (1654)) from the Institute of Latvian Language (Riga). The thesis of the conference papers are published in a separate publication (it includes summaries of four other papers not read at the conference). On December 11-12, 2016, at the lectures dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the birth of Professor Antanas Salis, organized by the Lithuanian Language Society in Kretinga, doc. dr. Vytautas Vitkauskas read the presentation Principles of creating and strengthening the common language of Antanas Salis. On March 4, Edmundas Trumpa presented to the staff of the Institute the first computer-based CD-ROM “Lithuanian language dialects” at the Department of Language History and Dialectology. Please. On May 22, Jolanta Gelumbeckaitė told about the IX International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics held in Madrid, where she had the opportunity to read a presentation. June 19, 2007. Giedrius Subačius talked about Lithuanian studies at the University of Illinois in Chicago. On September 19, Danutė Liutkevičienė and Ignas Urbonas presented ELSNET's Fifth European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication Lexicon Development for Language and Speech Processing, which was held at the University of Leuven, Belgium, in July 2016. On October 20, Milda Lučinskienė spoke about the international seminar Text Variety in the Witnesses of Medieval Texts held in Sofia on September 21-23, Vytautas Zinkevičius — about the 5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology organized by the European Speech Communication Association (ESCO) on the island of Rhodes in Greece on September 21-24, and Edmundas Trumpa — about the international conference Sociolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Conditions of the Linguistic Situation in Vilnius and Vilnius Region organized by the Universities of Warsaw and Vilnius. 268
(Sociopsycholinguisti ic conditions of the linguistic situation w Vilnius i na Wileriszczyznie), spalio 16-18 d. occurred Warsaw. December 4 d. Dr. Nijolė Čepienė told about Small Acts of Lithuania Berlyno In the secret Prussian Heritage State Archives, Albina Auksoriūtė — about Lauryno Manuscripts of Ivan Ivanovich in Krakow libraries. Internships, business trips April 8 — of June 30 d. Habil. Dr. Saulius Ambrazas trained at the mo University of Stockholm The Department of Baltic Studies, headed by Prof. Bibos Methuselah—Kangeres. University of Stockholm ir In the royal libraries he studied the literature necessary for his scientific work, wrote an article The derivative structure of substantives in Lithuanian and Latvian from the diachronic point view. of The internship was supported by the Swedish Institute. July 14-24 d. Dr. Danutė Marija Liutkevičienė participated in the Fifth ELSNET European Summer School on Computational Linguistics (ELSNET's Fifth European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication „Lexicon Development for Language and Speech Processing“), vykusioje Belgijoje, Leuveno universitete. The main topics studied at the school are: the formalization and presentation of lexical data, the internal structure of the lexicon, machine language recognition, the relationship between syntax and lexicon, problems of machine translation. The researcher listened to lectures, shared experience, established contacts with colleagues from other countries. August - September 2001. Simas Karaliūnas with Kasa im. Jozefa Mianowskiego —Fundacja wspierania nauki stipendija trained at Jogaila University in Krakow. In the university library he collected material for planned topics, studied scientific literature. Since October 8, Evija Lipartė, a doctoral student of the Institute, has been working at the University of Leipzig. On September 21-23, PhD student Milda Lučinskienė participated in the international seminar Text Variety in the Witnesses of Medieval Texts, organized by the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia. She presented a presentation entitled Computerisation of the Old 16-17" Centuries Lithuanian Scripts, in which she presented the work of the Institute's group on computerization of ancient scripts. The papers will be published in a separate publication. November 16-22 dr. Nijolė Čepienė collected personal names and place names from the acts of Lesser Lithuania in the Secret Prussian Cultural Heritage State Archives in Berlin, Germany, and examined the special literature available there. 269
