Lietuvių kalbos instituto kronika. 1996

CHRONICLE OF THE INSTITUTE OF THE LITHUANIAN LANGUAGE 1996 In July 1996, information about the Institute was disseminated via worldwide computer networks. It can be found at: http://www.mch.mii.lt/more/lki/pradzia.htm The Institute’s email address: [email protected] Structure Until 15 December 1996, the Director of the Institute was Professor, Habilitated Doctor Zigmas Zinkevičius. The Deputy Directors were Doctor Kazys Morkūnas (research affairs) and Kęstutis Jurkūnas (general affairs). Until 1 February 1996, the Scientific Secretary was Irena Andriukaitienė; from 1 February, it was Doctor Artūras Judžentis. In 1996, six departments operated at the Institute: Dictionaries (Head: Associate Professor, Doctor Vytautas Vitkauskas), Grammar (Head: Professor, Habilitated Doctor Vytautas Ambrazas), Onomastics (Head: Habilitated Doctor Vitalija Maciejauskienė), Terminology (Head: Doctor Kazys Gaivenis), History of the Language and Dialectology (Head: Doctor Kazys Morkūnas), and Language Culture (Head: Doctor Pranas Kniūkšta). The Publishing Group was also active (its head’s duties were temporarily performed by Neda Marcinkienė). At the end of 1996, 125 employees worked at the Institute, including 94 research staff members and 34 scholars (2 habilitated doctors who were professors, 6 habilitated doctors, 4 doctors who were associate professors, and 23 doctors). Ramute Bingelienė, Asta Kupčinskaitė, Vilija Lazauskaitė, Evija Lipartė ir Vilija Sakalauskienė. Main areas of activity By Resolution No. 399 of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, dated 1995 03 21, On the List of State Research Institutes, the Institute’s main areas of activity were established as follows: Research into Lithuanian lexicology, grammatical structure, dialects, and onomastics, and the development of terminology; Research into the history of the Lithuanian language and language contacts, and studies of the use of contemporary Lithuanian in society and its standardization. Key Decisions of the Institute Council On February 20, the results of the Institute’s research work in 1995 and plans for 1996 were discussed; the 68th issue of Language Culture was approved for printing; considered 260 the right of foreign scholars to use the computerized edition of the Dictionary of Contemporary Lithuanian and approved the agreement licensing its use; Dr. Artūras Judžentis was confirmed as the Institute’s scientific secretary; the request of Habil. Dr. Vitalija Macijauskienė to relieve her of her duties as chair of the doctoral studies and habilitation commission in linguistics in the humanities at VDU and LKI was accepted, and Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas was elected chair of this commission. On March 22, the organization of work by VDU and LKI doctoral students admitted in 1995 was considered; the draft of the general provisions governing the system of research degrees and academic titles in the Republic of Lithuania was discussed. On April 16, the results of the Institute’s international evaluation were discussed; the composition of Danutė Sabaliauskaitė’s doctoral studies committee was amended. On May 23, volume 18 of the Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language, volume 36 of Questions of Lithuanian Linguistics, and Vytautas Vitkauskas’s Program for Collecting Facts from Spoken Language for the “Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language” were approved for printing; rates were set for collecting and typesetting the texts of linguistic works; Prof. Habil. Dr. Zigmas Zinkevičius was proposed as the Institute’s representative to the VDU Senate; matters concerning a meeting with UNESCO officials and admission to doctoral studies in 1996 were discussed. On July 3, a committee was formed for admission in 1996 to doctoral studies in linguistics in the humanities at VDU and LKI; the protection of the Institute’s Antakalnis buildings was discussed; information was provided about the Institute’s participation in the project Research and Study Institutions in Global Computer Networks. On September 24, the composition of the doctoral studies committees for Institute doctoral students admitted in 1996—Ramutė Bingelienė, Asta Kupčinskaitė, Vilija Lazauskaitė, Evija Lipartė, and Vilija Sakalauskienė—was approved; approval was given to the composition of the doctoral studies committees for VDU doctoral students Raimonda Adamonytė, Birutė Briaukienė, Sigitas Jankauskas, and Jovita Liutkutė; the composition of doctoral student Audra Zavadskaitė’s doctoral studies committee was amended; approval was given to amendments to the composition of VDU doctoral student Gailius Laukagalis’s doctoral studies committee and to its new composition; candidates were proposed to represent the Institute in the reserve of the Expert Commission of the Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education. On October 15, it was decided to submit the following nominations: for the Republic of Lithuania Science Prizes competition—the volumes 7–16 of the Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language and its authors and editors, Dr. Irena Ermąnytė, Dr. Sofija Kėzytė, Dr. Jonas Paulauskas, Dr. Kazys Ulvydas (posthumously), Associate Professor Dr. Vytautas Vitkauskas, Dr. Klementina Vosylytė, Angelė Vilutytė-Rimševičienė, and Dr. Kazimieras Pakalka; for a State Research Scholarship—the candidacy of Dr. Rita Miliūnaitė; for the Young Scientists’ Research Paper Competition—the work of Dr. Danutė Marija Liutkevičienė; for the highest-level State Research Scholarship—the candidacy of Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas; for the Martynas Mažvydas Prize—the scholarly works of Prof. Jochen Dieter Range. The scientific cooperation agreement between the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw) and the Institute of the Lithuanian Language, and the draft scientific cooperation agreement between the Faculty of Philology of Saint Petersburg State University and the Institute of the Lithuanian Language were approved. 261 On December 30, habil. dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas was elected Director of the Institute, effective January 2, 1997; approved for publication: Questions in Lithuanian Linguistics vol. 37, Terminology [Issue] 3, Research Programme on Lithuanian Dialects and Their Interaction. Sociolinguistics. Publishing Grammar of Contemporary Lithuanian = A Grammar of Modern Lithuanian / V. Ambrazas, K. Garšva, A. Girdenis, E. Jakaitienė, P. Kniūkšta, S. Krinickaitė, V. Labutis, A. Laigonaitė, E. Oginskienė, J. Pikčilingis, A. Ružė, N. Slizienė, K. Ulvydas, V. Urbutis, A. Valeckienė, E. Valiulytė; Ed. V. Ambrazas. – V.: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų l-kla. – 1996 – 2nd revised edition – 743 p.: diagrams. – 3,000 copies. D aukantas S. The Great Polish–Lithuanian Dictionary. Vol. 3: r – ž / Prepared by G. Subačius. Summaries in Polish and English. – V.: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų l-kla. – 1996. – 384 p. – 1,000 copies. Jonas Jablonskis Conference: At the Boundary of Language Culture and Stylistics: (Abstracts of papers. Vilnius, October 4, 1996) / Ed. P. Kniūkšta; prepared for publication by D. Vainauskienė. – V.: Lietuvių k. inst. – 1996. – 22 p. – 150 copies. Language Culture. [Issue] 68/Editorial board: V. Ambrazas, K. Gaivenis, P. Kniūkšta (executive editor), V. Maciejauskienė, R. Miliūnaitė, G. Naktinienė, A. Pupkis, K. Ulvydas; compiled and prepared for publication by A. Bataitytė. V.: Lietuvių k. inst. – 1996. – 122 p. – 1,500 copies. Lithuanian Language: Researchers and Research. Abstracts of papers for the conference commemorating the 450th anniversary of the first Lithuanian book, Martynas Mažvydas’s Catechism. October 23–24, 1996 / Organizing committee: D. Mikulėnienė, K. Morkūnas, A. Sabaliauskas. – V.: Lietuvių k. inst. – 1996. – 39 p. – 200 copies. Research Programme on Lithuanian Dialects and Their Interaction. Accentuation / Compiled by D. Mikulėnienė, B. Stundžia; executive editor K. Morkūnas. – V.: Lietuvių k. inst. – 1996. – 91 p. – 300 copies. Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language. Vol. 17: Tūlė – valgus / Chief editor V. Vitkauskas; editorial board: I. Erm anytė, G. Naktinienė, J. Paulauskas, Z. Šimėnaitė, V. Vitkauskas. – V.: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų l-kla. – 1996 – 1,079 p. – 5,000 copies. Questions in Lithuanian Linguistics. Vol. 36: Lithuanian Language: Researchers and Research / Volume compiled by D. Mikulėnienė, K. Morkūnas, A. Sabaliauskas; editorial board: V. Ambrazas (acting chair), V. Maciejauskienė, D. Mikulėnienė, K. Morkūnas (executive editor), G. Naktinienė, B. Stundžia, Z. Zinkevičius. – V.: Lietuvių k. inst. – 1996. – 246 p. – 700 copies. Sabaliauskaitė D. M. Names of Clothing in the Lithuanian Language. Abstract of a doctoral dissertation in the field of linguistics within the humanities. – V., 1996. – 11 p. – 100 copies. Terminology [Issue] 3 / Editorial board: A. Buračas, K. Gaivenis (executive editor), A. 262 Kaulakienė, J. Klimavičius (deputy editor-in-chief) A. Smilgevičius. – V.: Institute of the Lithuanian Language. – 1996. – 119 pp. – 500 copies. Vačiulytė-Romančuk O. Proper Names in the Dialect of the Gervėčiai Area / Responsible editor E. Valiulytė. Summary in English. – V.: Institute of the Lithuanian Language. – 1996. – 160 pp. – 700 copies. Vanagas A. Names of Lithuanian Cities / Prepared and preface written by V. Maciejauskienė. Summary in German. – V.: Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing House. – 1996. – 322 pp. – 3,000 copies. Vitkauskas V. A Program for Collecting Facts from Living Speech for the Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language / Edited and supplemented with guiding questions by I. Ermanytė. – V.: – 1996 – 56 pp. – 1,000 copies. Zinkevičius Z. The History of the Lithuanian Language. With a Foreword by W. R. Schmalstieg. – V.: Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing House. – 1996. – 333 pp. – 1,000 copies. In 1996, funding for the publication of the Institute’s landmark and other major works was provided by the Ministry of Education and Science and the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language from the State Language Use and Development Program. Participation in the Press A total of 63.5 scholarly articles were published (9 of them in foreign publications), and 43.33 conference abstracts were printed (23.33 of them for international conferences). Scientific expeditions The Dictionary Department organized an expedition in the Alanta area of Molėtai District from July 1 to 14. The expedition was led by Zita Šimėnaitė; Angelė Kaulakienė, Ritutė Petrokienė, and Klementina Vosyl irtė took part. The linguists were assisted by G. Jakučionienė, a teacher at Alanta Secondary School, and university students. During the expedition, 24 hours of dialect texts were recorded, and 2,000 lexicographic records were submitted to the card file of the Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language. The Department of Language History and Dialectology organized three expeditions: from June 27 to July 5, Vita Pranskūnaitė (leader), Ona Aleknavičienė, Rima Bacevičiūtė, Ri čardas Petkevičius, Nijolė Tuomienė, and Edmundas Trumpa went to the Ylakiai area of Skuodas District; from July 8 to 19, Laima Grumadienė (leader), Ri čardas Petkevičius, Vita Pranskūnaitė, Irena Raišutienė, Nijolė Tuomienė, Aloyzas Vidugiris, and students from Vilnius Pedagogical University collected material in the Balčiai area of Utena District; from July 23 to 31, Edmundas Trumpa (leader), Daiva Atkočaitytė, Rima Bacevičiūtė, Asta Leskauskaitė, Vita Pranskūnaitė, Audra Zavadzkaitė, and students from Vytautas Magnus University studied the dialect in the Taujėnai area of Ukmergė District. Dialect material was also collected from the speech varieties of Linkmenys (Vytautas Kardelis) and Pelesa (Edmundas Trumpa). 263 Using various questionnaires and programs (the Study of Dialects and Their Interaction, the Collection of Language Data, and the Atlas of European Languages), the department recorded about 7,000 units of dialect data in total and made audio recordings of texts lasting about 70 hours. Conferences, seminars At the conference Ethnic Culture in the Restored Republic of Lithuania: Revival or Decline?, held on January 26–27 at the Teachers’ House in Vilnius, Jonas Klimavičius (How Language Is Stabilizing) and Vytautas Vitkauskas (The Results of the Ultimate Disappearance of Dialects) delivered papers. At the 31st Lithuanian National Physics Conference, held February 5–7, Angelė Kaulakienė delivered a paper entitled Characteristics of the Development of Physics Terminology. At a commemoration of August Schleicher held on February 19 at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Algirdas Sabaliauskas spoke about the life and work of the renowned linguist. At the scholarly conference Statics and Dynamics of Language, held on February 22 at the Institute of the Latvian Language to mark the 123rd anniversary of Academician Jānis Endzelīns’s birth, Saulius Ambrazas (On the Development of the Formation of Baltic Language Derivatives with the Suffix *-mo-) and Ričardas Petkevičius (On Same-Meaning Nouns in Lithuanian and Latvian) delivered papers. At the Mažvydas readings held on March 28 at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Juozas Karaciejus (The Wolfenbüttel Postil in the Context of Lithuanian Writings from Lithuania Minor) and Artūras Judžentis (Research on the Language of Martynas Mažvydas’s Writings: Status and Tasks) delivered papers. On April 18, the Institute’s Department of Language Culture held a seminar at the Vilnius City Municipality entitled Foreign Words Through the Eyes of Linguists and Language Users. Jonas Klimavičius spoke about searching for missing words and those who search for them; Danguolė Mikulėnienė surveyed word management and public corrections; and Pranas Kniūkšta discussed attitudes toward foreign words, urging people to fear not loanwords but a foreign spirit. For this event, Jurga Girčienė and Loreta Vaicekauskienė prepared a leaflet entitled Foreign Words and Their Replacements. At the conference Maironis’s “Young Lithuania” in the School, organized by the Maironis Lithuanian Literature Museum in Kaunas on April 22, Vytautas Vitkauskas delivered a paper entitled The Value of the Language and Ideas of “Young Lithuania.” At the seminar Problems in the Study of Latgalian Literature and Literary (Written) Language, held in Rezekne on April 25, Vidmantas Kuprevičius delivered a paper entitled On Latvian Words in the Register of an Unknown Author’s Manuscript Dictionary of Lithuanian Eastern Dialects and Polish from the First Half of the 19th Century. At the seminar Language Planning: Theoretical and Practical Problems, organized on April 25–26 by the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language under the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, Laima Grumadienė (A Prerequisite for Successful Language Planning: Communication with the Public) and Pranas Kniūkšta (On the Strategy of Language Planning 264 her), Danguolė Mikulėnienė (Language management: standardization and administration), Loreta Vaicekauskienė (Language and prestige), and Vytautas Vitkauskas (How our standard language should be managed). At a gathering organized by the Vilnius City Municipality on May 3, A foreign word is like a foreign hat, Vytautas Vitkauskas spoke about a small nation with a large vocabulary, while Pranas Kniūkšta spoke about fear of Lithuanian words in Vilnius public signage. At the international conference Relics of the Languages and Cultures of the Western Balts, organized by the Baltic Studies Center of Klaipėda University on May 3–4, Aloyzas Vidugiris presented a paper entitled Connections between the lexicons of Zietela and Southern Aukštaitian. Marytė Razmukaitė and Vidas Garlauskas participated in and delivered papers at a meeting of the UN Baltic Division Expert Group on the standardization of geographical names, held in Riga on May 6. Danguolė Mikulėnienė, Aloyzas Vidugiris, and Zigmas Zinkevičius took part in the discussion The Native Language: Concerns about Its Fate, organized by the Scientists’ Palace on May 7. At a seminar held at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) on May 18–25, Saulius Ambrazas presented a paper entitled Word-formation categories in the Baltic languages from a historical perspective. At the conference Culture and Society, organized by the Institute of Humanities of Kaunas University of Technology on June 4, Kazys Gaivenis and Angelė Kaulakienė presented papers (Extralinguistic principles for standardizing terms), as did Stasys Keinys (The Lithuanian language on the eve of the 21st century). At the conference Nation and Language, organized by Kaunas’s Verdenė Club on June 7, Kazys Garšva presented a paper (The concerns of the Lithuanian language in the country’s borderlands), as did Zigmas Zinkevičius (Vilnius—the world center of Baltic studies). At the conference of the World Community of Lithuanian Studies, held on July 4–6, entitled Lithuanian Studies on the Eve of the 21st Century: Research Priorities, Methods, and Innovations, Zigmas Zinkevičius (On Priorities for Research in Historical Lithuanian Studies) and Aloyzas Vidugiris (The significance and prospects of Lithuanian dialects) presented papers. Kazys Morkūnas participated in the meeting of the editorial board of the Atlas of European Languages, held at the Latvian Language Institute (Riga) on September 20–21. He presented the meeting participants with a paper entitled On linguistic geography work in Lithuania. At the Jonas Jablonskis conference At the boundary between language culture and stylistics, organized in Marijampolė on October 4 by the Language Culture Division and the Department of Lithuanian Language of Vilnius University, Laima Grumadienė (Dialect features in the standard language), Asta Kupčinskaitė (Tendencies in the use of non-Lithuanian language elements (components)), and Pranas Kniūkšta (The spread and dissemination of bureaucratic clichés) presented papers. At the conference National Terminology: History, Present, and Prospects, held in Riga on October 22, Albina Auksoriūtė, Kazys Gaivenis, and Angelė Kaulakie- 265 also delivered the general presentation Some thoughts on Lithuanian terminology standards. On October 23–24, at the international conference The Lithuanian Language: Researchers and Research (marking the 450th anniversary of the first Lithuanian book, Martynas Mažvydas’s Catechism), organized by the Institute’s Department of Language History and Dialectology, presentations were given by Ona Aleknavičienė (Problems in researching the vocabulary of Jonas Bretkūnas’s Postil), Saulius Ambrazas (On the origin of names for bearers of a characteristic with the suffix -(i)ūnas), Irena Andriukaitienė (Names of colors in Lithuanian written monuments of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries), Daiva Atkočaitytė (Distribution of pitch accents in diphthongs in the Eržvilkas dialect), Rima Bacevičiūtė (On the pronunciation of the consonants [l] and [l’]), Nijolė Čepienė (Archival documents from Königsberg), Kazimieras Gaivenis, Valentinas Černiauskas, and Vida Žilinskienė (The Lithuanian Language Terminology Bank), Kazimieras Garšva (Phonetics of the Lithuanian dialects of southeastern Latvia), Jolanta Gelumbe­ckaitė (The relation of Vulgate prepositional constructions to the illative in J. Bretkūnas’s translation of the Gospel according to Luke), Elena Grinaveckienė (Lithuanian-origin phraseological units in Belarusian dialects), Laima Grumadienė (Surnames of residents of the Žasliai parish in the mid-eighteenth century), Juozas Karaciejus (When was the first Lithuanian book published?), Gina Kavaliūnaitė (S. B. Chylinski’s Bible and the problem of its source text), Pranas Kniūkšta (On the nominalization of the pronoun tamsta), Vilija Lazauskaitė (On root stress in neuter adjectives), Asta Leskauskaitė (The merger of the consonants t’, d’, and k’, g’ in the Southern Aukštaitian and Eastern Aukštaitian Vilnius dialects), Evija Lipartė (On some adverbial and locative constructions in S. Daukantas’s writings), Milda Lučinskienė (Some lexical differences between J. Jaknavičius’s Gospels of 1647 and 1705), Danguolė Mikulėnienė (On the relation between the subordinating conjunctions kad and ką), Kazys Morkūnas (Verb morphology in M. Mažvydas’s writings and D. Klein’s grammars), Alma Ragauskaitė (Bimorphemic personal names of sixteenth-century Samogitian peasants), Nijolė Tuomienė (Code-switching in a bilingual environment), Edmundas Trumpa (Some characteristics of the phoneme /a/ in the Pelesa dialect), Aloyzas Vidugiris (The Zanavykai: descendants of Samogitians or Sudovians?), Vytautas Zinkevičius (Computerization of research on old Lithuanian writings), and Zigmas Zinkevičius (The first Lithuanian book and the origins of our written language). In addition, presentations were given at the conference by Anatolij Nepokupnyj of Kyiv (К проблемам дифференциации славизмов М. Мажвидаса), Ilga Jansone (Vārda cilme un tā semantiskā motivācija (latv. piedurknē)), and Anna Stafecka of Riga (Izlokšņu īpatnības garīgo dziesmu krājumā „Dzimies Swatas...” (1801)), as well as lecturers from Lithuanian institutions of higher education, doctoral students, and other Lithuanianists. At the Kazimieras Būga conference organized by the Department of Baltic Philology of Vilnius University on November 6, presentations were given by Laimutis Bilkis (On the origin and formation of some old helonyms), Jonas Klimavičius (Apidemė), Vitalija Maciejauskienė (On the classification of Lithuanian surnames (personal names)), and Zigmas Zinkevičius (The Curonian, Curonian Spit, new Curonian, or Curonian Spit dialect?). 266 At the conference organized by the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore on December 21 to mark the 150th anniversary of Laurynas Ivinskis’s calendars, presentations were given by Albina Auksoriūtė (L. Ivinskis’s Prigimtuomenė: Names of Systematic Categories) and Vytautas Vitkauskas (Lexical choices for publication (based on L. Ivinskis’s writings). Study visits and business trips From April 30 to May 25, habilitated doctor Simas Karaliūnas undertook a research visit at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In Warsaw libraries, he collected materials and read literature on questions of Balto-Slavic etymology and the origin and development of the ethnonyms of Slavic tribes. From June 24 to July 2, doctoral student Jūratė Pajėdienė. also attended the Nordic summer school on tense and aspect, held in Vatnahalsen (Norway), and delivered a presentation on tense and aspect in complex subordinate temporal clauses in contemporary Lithuanian (Tense and aspect in temporal complex sentences in modern Lithuanian). From August 18 to September 1, doctoral student Gina Kavaliūnaitė undertook a research visit in Antwerp (Belgium). At the summer school she studied contemporary Dutch and collected materials in libraries on Dutch translations of the Bible. From September 3 to December 31, Professor of Vilnius Pedagogical University Vincentas Drotvinas. undertook a research visit at the Institute. The visit was supervised by habilitated doctor Algirdas Sabaliauskas. From September 4 to December 24, habilitated doctor Simas Karaliūnas. undertook a research visit at the Institute for the Languages of Finland. In Helsinki libraries, he studied literature on Indo-European and Finno-Ugric linguistics and collected materials for his research. From November 24 to December 22, doctoral student Gina Kavaliūnaitė. undertook a research visit in the Netherlands. In Amsterdam and other cities, she investigated the source texts for S. B. Chylinski’s Bible translation and secured for the Institute a facsimile edition of the principal source, Statenbijbel. From December 8 to 13, doctoral student Milda Lučinskienė. undertook a research visit at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. In Warsaw libraries, she collected materials for her dissertation. Institute guests On March 27–April 3 and October 22–30, Professor Anatolij Nepokupnyj, head of a department at the A. Potebnia Institute of Linguistics of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (Kyiv), visited the Institute and collected Lithuanian-language data for his research. At the conference The Lithuanian Language: Researchers and Research, the guest delivered a paper. On April 12–17, a postgraduate student from the University of St Petersburg’s State Faculty of Philology visited the Institute— 267 the Department of General Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, Aleksej Andronov. On May 22, Uppsala University (Sweden) Professor Lars-Gunar Larsson delivered a paper at the Department of Slavic Philology of Vilnius University entitled The influence of Baltic languages on Baltic Finnic languages. Institute staff also attended the talk. On May 23, the guest visited the Institute. He met with the Institute’s director, Zigmas Zinkevičius, as well as Kazys Morkūnas and Algirdas Sabaliauskas. On June 14, Italian Balticist Pietro Umberto Dini visited the Institute. On July 11, the President of the Republic of Lithuania, Algirdas Brazauskas, visited the Lithuanian Language Institute (LKI) and the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore (LLTI) and inspected the construction of the Institute’s building with its Lithuanian studies collections. The President’s advisers, Romas Gudaitis and Arvydas Matulionis, and the head of the President’s Office, Andrius Meškauskas, accompanied him. On July 18, Björn Wiemer from the University of Konstanz in Germany visited. On September 13, professors Georgij Klimov and Džoja Edelman from the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences visited the Institute. From September 14–16, Derk Boonstra, a philosopher from the Netherlands interested in issues in Lithuanian studies, was a guest. On October 23, Ilga Jansone and Anna Stafecka, guests from the Latvian Language Institute (Riga), visited the Institute and delivered papers at the conference The Lithuanian Language: Researchers and Research. People and Dates On January 20, habilitated doctor Simas Karaliūnas turned 60. On February 15, Academician Kazys Ulvydas was awarded the Third-Class Order of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas. On February 16, foreign members of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, Zigmas Zinkevičius and Algirdas Sabaliauskas, together with Academician Algirdas Gaižutis, Chair of the Humanities and Social Sciences Division of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, attended the Latvian Academy of Sciences’ general assembly commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of that scientific institution. During the festivities, Latvian Academy of Sciences President Tāls Millers presented Zigmas Zinkevičius with the Latvian Academy of Sciences’ diploma of foreign membership. On March 8, at the Academy of Sciences, Professor and Habilitated Doctor Zigmas Zinkevičius was awarded the 1995 Lithuanian State Science Prize and laureate’s diploma for his book History of the Lithuanian Language. On March 19, a meeting was held at the Academy of Sciences with Academician Zigmas Zinkevičius, a 1995 Lithuanian State Science Prize laureate. The topic of his presentation was The Origins of the Lithuanian Written Language. Habilitated Doctor Algirdas Sabaliauskas spoke at the meeting. On April 9, the second day of Easter, the Institute’s young staff and their families gathered for a lively evening party in the hall of the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, recalled the old customs associated with the holiday, danced, and sang. 268 At the April 17 meeting of the Senate of Vytautas Magnus University, habilitated doctor Vytautas Ambrazas was awarded the title of Professor. On May 28, Danutė Marija Sabaliauskaitė-Liutkevičienė, a research associate in the Institute’s Dictionary Department, defended her doctoral dissertation in the humanities, entitled Lithuanian Words for Clothing. On June 15, staff of the Terminology Department congratulated their colleague, Dr. Angelė Kaulakienė, on the occasion of her milestone birthday. On August 20, Dr. Giedrius Subačius was awarded the Simonas Daukantas Prize for researching and publishing the works of Simonas Daukantas and other Samogitians. On September 19, a festive celebration was held in the hall of the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore to mark the 35th anniversary of Kalbos kultūra. The event looked back at the history of language-cultivation work and celebrated the continued publication of the renewed journal. On September 20, Dr. Stasys Keinys turned 60. The jubilarian was honored at a gathering hosted by the Terminology Department. On November 27, a presentation of Volume XVII of the Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language, organized by the Dictionary Department, took place at the Lithuanian Artists’ Palace. The evening was hosted by Habilitated Doctor Algirdas Sabaliauskas; speakers included the dictionary’s responsible editor Vytautas Vitkauskas, Professors Zigmas Zinkevičius and Donatas Sauka, Zigmas Pocius, director of the Institute of Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing, and writers Juozas Aputis and Kazys Bradūnas. The artistic program featured actors Regina Paliukaitytė, Aldona Vederaitė, and Remigijus Vilkaitis, singer Danielius Sadauskas, and the ensemble Dijūta. For 1995–1996, the highest-level state scholarship was awarded to Dr. Kazys Morkūnas. In 1996, a state scholarship for young researchers was awarded to Dr. Artūras Judžentis. In 1996, the one-time Evelina Kolupailaitė-Masiokienė (USA) scholarship was awarded to assistant Ričardas Petkevičius. In 1995, it was awarded to the Institute’s doctoral student Laimutis Bilkis. Deaths On March 16, after a brief and serious illness, long-time Institute employee and corresponding member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences Kazys Ulvydas died (born 1910 08 14). On April 12, the anniversary of the death of former long-time Institute employee, director, habilitated doctor and professor Aleksandras Vanagas (1934 08 12 – 1995 04 13) was commemorated. On April 22, long-time Institute employee Dr. Kazimieras Eigminas died (born 1929 01 22). On November 22, after a long and serious illness, the renowned lexicographer and long-time Institute employee Dr. Antanas Lyberis died (born 1909 11 06). Artūras Judžentis 269