Lietuvių kalbos instituto kronika. 1995

XXXVI (1996) „LITHUANIAN LANGUAGE: RESEARCHERS AND STUDIES CHRONICLE OF THE LITHUANIAN LANGUAGE INSTITUTE - 1995 Structure There were 6 departments: Dictionaries (headed by V. Vitkauskas, PhD), Vocabulary (headed by V. Maciejauskienė, PhD), Grammar (headed by V. Ambrazas, PhD), Language Culture (headed by P. Kniūkšta, PhD), Terminology (headed by K. Gaivenis, PhD), Language History and Dialectology (headed by K. Morkūnas, PhD). He worked for the publishing group (head — A. Stanislovaitienė). At the end of 1995, there were 128 employees, including 33 researchers (prof. Habil. dr. —1, habil. dr. —7, doc. dr. —4, dr. —21). I. Andriukaitienė, A. Auksoriūtė, M. Lučinskienė, G. Kavaliūnaitė, J. Pajėdienė, E. Trumpa, N. Vaišnytė, A. Zavadzkaitė enrolled in the PhD programme in Humanities (Linguistics) at LKI and VDU. The Government of the Republic of Lithuania, pursuant to Articles 15, 16 and 17 of the Law on Science and Studies of the Republic of Lithuania and taking into account the conclusions of the first stage of the evaluation of the activities of state scientific institutes, decided to extend the status of state scientific institute of the Lithuanian Language Institute until 31 December 1997; approved the main directions of the Lithuanian Language Institute: lexicology and lexicography of the Lithuanian language, grammar structure, dialects, vocabulary research, terminology development, history of the Lithuanian language and linguistic relations research and standardization (Government Decree No. 399 of 21 March 1995 "On the Status of State Research Institutes- "). Publishing Published 19 publications (244,2 referred edition 1., 15250 ex.): Ambrazas S. The development of noun formation. Deverbatives in Lithuanian: Summary of the habilitation thesis for the obtaining of the habil. Doctor of Humanities (linguistic direction). —V., 1995. —16 p. —100 ex. Čepienė N. Germanisms in Lithuanian language and their phonetic adaptation: Summary of the doctoral dissertation in the field of linguistics. — V., 1995. —12 p. —100 ex. ; The Great Polish-Lithuanian Dictionary. T. 2: n-p /Prepared by G. Subačius. —V. : Science and encyclopedias 1-kla. —1995. —439 p. —1500 ex. Conference of Jono Jablonskio: Practical and Methodological Implementation of Language Culture: (Theses of Presentations. Vilnius, 9 November 1995) /Red. P. Kniūkšta; 235 D. Vainauskienė. —V. : Vilnius University l-kla. —1995. —29 p. —200 ex. | Judžentis A. Comparative Construktions in Old Lithuanian: (Doctoral thesis). —V., 1995. —14 p. —50 ex. Language Culture /Red. The judges: V. Ambrazas, K. Gaivenis, P. Kniūkšta, V. Maciejauskienė, R. Miliūnaitė, G. Naktinienė, A. Pupkis, K. Ulvydas; Compiled by R. Miliūnaitė; A. A. Batytė. —V. : Science and encyclopedias l-kla. —1995. -Sas. 67. —117(3) p. —1500 ex. Kazys Ulvydas. Bibliography /Composed by I. Andriukaitienė; Red. K. Morkūnas. —V. : Lithuanian k. inst. —1995. —38 p. —200 ex. Problems of lexicography: semantics, etymology, presentation of dialectal facts, principles of compilation of dictionaries: for the 115th anniversary of K. Buga and the 110th anniversary of J. Balčikonis: (Thesis of the conference reports, 16-17 March 1995). —V. : Lithuanian k. inst. —1995. —40 p. —200 ex. In Lithuanian: researchers and research: To mark the 400th anniversary of the first Lithuanian book — the Catechism of Mikalojus Daukša — in Greater Lithuania (Vilnius, 1595): (Thesis of the conference reports, October 25—26, 1995). —V. : Lithuanian k. inst. —1995. —36 p. —200 ex. Research programme on Lithuanian dialects and their interaction. Lexicon / Compiled by A. Vidugiris; Ats. red. K. Morkūnas. —V. : Lithuanian k. inst. —1995. —46 p. —300 ex. Research programme on Lithuanian dialects and their interaction. Morphology / Compiled by: D. Mikulėnienė, K. Morkūnas. —V. : Lithuanian k. inst. —1995. — 42 p. —300 ex. Dictionary of the English Language. T. 16: Tema-tulė /Red. 2009. 12. 12. - 13. 12. - 13. 12. - 14. 12. - 14. 12. - 15. 12. - 15. 12. - 16. 12. - 17. 12. - 18. 12. - 19. —V. : Science and encyclopedia Ikla. —1995. —1086(1) p. —5000 ex. Lithuanian Linguistics. T. 33: Grammar and lexicology /Red. Board of Judges: V. Ambrazas (adj.), A. Valeckienė, E. Valiulytė. —V. : Lithuanian k. inst. —1995. —237 p. —700 ex. ; Lithuanian Linguistics. T. 35: Lithuanian lexicology studies /The volume was compiled by I. Ermanytė, G. Naktinienė, J. Paulauskas, V. Vitkauskas; Editors: V. Ambrazas (corresponding editor), V. Maciejauskienė, D. Mikulėnienė, K. Morkūnas (corresponding editor), G. Naktinienė, B. Stundžia, Z. Zinkevičius. —V. : Lithuanian k. inst. —1995. —237 p. —700 ex. Sedekerskytė R., Ubeikaitė A. Lithuanian Linguistics. 1973—1976. Literary index /Red. Board of Judges: L. Kanopkienė (adj.), J. Marcinkevičius (pr.), K. Morkūnas, A. Sabaliauskas. —V. : Lithuanian MA b-ka: Lithuanian inst. k. — 1995. — 392 p. — 800 exp. A dictionary of Lithuanian verb conjugation. T. 1: AM /Ats. red. V. Ambrazas. —V. : Science and encyclopedias l-kla. —1994. —444 p. —1000 ex. —[Published in 1994, dated 1995]. Terminology /Red. Board: A. Buračas, K. Gaivenis (ed.), A. Kaulakienė, J. Klimavičius (ed.), A. Smilgevičius; Composed and edited most of the texts by St. Caine; A. Noreikaitė. —V. : Lithuanian k. inst. —1995. - Kn. 2. —118 p. —700 ex. Valiulytė E. Place is described differently: Deputy and his synonyms /Ats. red. V. Ambrazas. —V. : Science and encyclopedias I-kla. —1995. —140 p. —1500 pcs. 236 RISE FE XEN ENS FEE Vytautas Vitkauskas. Bibliography /Composed by A. Juodeikienė, A. Kaluinienė; Editors: I. Ermanytė, A. Kaluinienė, G. Naktinienė, J. Paulauskas (head). —V. : Lithuanian k. inst. —1995. —67 p. —200 ex. The employees of the Institute are authors or editors of other publications: Barauskaitė J., Čepaitienė G., Mikulėnienė D., Pabrėža J., Petkevičienė R.. [D.]1. Lexicology, Phonetics, Accentology, Dialectology, Spelling (Textbook). —V. : Science and encyclopedias l-kla. — 1995. —336 p. —(D. Mikulėnienė —"Accentology" section, p. 161—220, author). The history of the city / prepared by B. Vanagienė. —V. : Pa-' preparation: Institute of Lithuanian Language, Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore. Released by UAB "Vaga". —1995. —[I]. —664 p. —[II]. —462 p. Paulauskas J. Systematic Dictionary of Phraseology of Lithuanian Language. - K. : Light. —1995. — 415 p.; A Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language. —V. : Science and encyclopedias I-kla. —1995. —103 p. Zinkevičius Z. History of Lithuanian language. Indexes and bibliography. —V. : Science and encyclopedias |-kla. —1995. —374 p. Participation in the press 81 scientific (13 in foreign publications) and 138 popular science articles were published. | Scientific expeditions The Department of Language History and Dialectology organized 2 expeditions: J July 7—13 in the vicinity of Vištytis (participated L. Grumadiene (leader), L. Mačianskaitė, D. Mikulėnienė, K. Morkūnas, R. Petkevičius, V. A. Zavadzkaitė, E. Trumpa, N. Vaišnytė, A. Vidugiris- ). 2 July 14-21 in Ylakiai area (participated V. Frantskunaite (leader), E. Liparte, R. Petkevičius, E. Trumpa, B. Vanagiene. According to the European Atlas of Languages, the Study of Lithuanian Dialects and their Interaction, and the Language Facts Collection programs, about 8000 units of dialect data were recorded, and about 80 hours of texts of these dialects were recorded on tapes. In 1995, the databases of the entire language were supplemented: dictionary — 40,5 thousand pieces, dialects — 12 thousand pieces. Conferences and international scientific relations On January 10, 2009, the seminar "Language and Computers" presented some newer computer language research programs and discussed them with their authors. Dr. L. Grumadienė, Dr. B. Stundžia and others spoke. From 20 February to 20 May 2016, N. Vaišnytė taught Lithuanian at the Institute of Eastern Slavic Languages of the University of Warsaw in Balstogė. Kovo 14 d. —1996 m. vasario 1 d. J. Gelumbeckaitė stažavosi Oslo universitete. 237 Kovo 16—17 d. Žodynų skyriaus surengtoje tarptautinėje konferencijoje "Leksikografijos problemos: semantika, etimologija, tarminių faktų pateikimas, žodynų sudarymo principai“, skirtoje K. Būgos 115-osioms ir J. Balčikonio 110-osioms gimimo metinėms, pranešimus skaitė: A. Sabaliauskas ("Kazimieras Būga ir lietuvių leksikografija"), V. Vitkauskas ("J. Balčikonio nustatyti "Lietuvių kalbos žodyno" pagrindiniai principai"), S. Karaliūnas ("Lietuvos vardo kilmė ir senovės baltų socialinė organizacija"), E. Grinaveckienė ("Sunkiau pažįstami lietuvių šnektų baltarusizmai”), V. Lazauskaitė ("Dėl kai kurių žodžių naujojo kirčiavimo istorijos ir vertės"), J. Klimavičius ("Kas yra bendrinės kalbos leksika"), J. Zabarskaitė (* Bendrinės kalbos žodynas —realybė ar fantazija?- ”), M. Daškus ("Lietuvių kalbos žodyno papildymai ir pataisymai- ”), K. Morkūnas ("Norminamasis žodynas ir lingvistinė geografija- "), L. Grumadienė ("Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodyno" (1993 m.) tarmybés”), I. Ermanytė ("Lietuvių kalbos enantiosemijos reiškinys"), Z. Šimėnaitė ("Daiktavardžio širdis semantika"- ), G. Naktinienė ("Pietų aukštaičių ir rytų aukštaičių vilniškių priežastiniai veiksmažodžiai"), A. Vidugiris ("Lazūnų ir Zietelos šnektų leksikos lyginimas*"), E. Jakulis (*Mišriojo tipo a-kamienių veiksmažodžių su priesaga -éti (varvėti, varva, varvejo) kirčiavimas- "), D. Mikulėnienė ("Sisteminiai kirčiavimo variantai morfologijos požiūriu”), J. Karaciejus ("Apie istorinį ir etimologinį lietuvių kalbos Zodynus”), V. Kuprevičius ("Dėl rytiečių rankraštinio žodyno (Rtz)”), M. Norkaitienė ("Kelios pastabos dėl pavardės Ulvydas kilmės"), D. Sabaliauskaitė (”Sijono pavadinimai lietuvių kalboje"). The conference was attended by linguists from Latvia (E. Kagaine, I. Jansone, A. Timuška) and Ukraine (A. Nepokupnas- ). From March 20 to June 15, 2015, Dr. V. Ambrazas was a trainee at Stockholm University. On April 26, the Language Culture Department organized a seminar "Sociolinguistics through the eyes of Lithuanian linguists". The papers were read by: L. Laužikaitė ("Sociolinguistics: origin, evolution and development perspectives"), L. Grumadienė ("Lithuanian sociolinguistics terms"), V. Labutis ("About the publication "Sociolinguistics and language culture"). The speakers P. Kniūkšta and A. Pupkis discussed the relationship between sociolinguistics and language culture, the prospects of sociolinguistic research. The participants of the seminar were given a list of preferred language practice publications for the ordinary language user, prepared by A. Kupčinskaitė and L. Laužikaitė. May 22 — June 15. habil. dr. King was educated at the University of London. : At the VII International Baltic Languages Congress, held in Jurmala on 13-15 June, the following lecturers delivered their papers: S. Ambrazas (* “Breaks in the development of the nominative noun construction in Baltic languages”), N. Čepienė (“Phonetic variants of Germanisms in Lithuanian language”), K. Garšva (“Relations between Lithuanian and Latvian dialects”), L. Grumadienė (“Reflections of dialectal prepositions in the speech of urban people”), V. Kuprevičius (“On the lexicographical method of the Lithuanian-- Polish dictionary (RtŽ)”), D. Mikulėnienė (“On the metatonia varna: varnas type Ys K. Morkūnas (“On the coordination of some Lithuanian and Latvian dialectology work”), A. Sabaliauskas (“Comparative-historical linguistics and Lithuanian national revival”), A. Vidugiris (“Some phenomena of the western Baltic language in southern Lithuanian dialects”), Z. Zinkevičius (“Remarks on the disappearance of the double count in the Baltic languages”). On June 27-29, at the World Lithuanian Community Scientific Conference "Lithuanian Society in the Years of Independence (1940-1990): Resistance and Adaptation to the War" L. Grumadienė read the report "The Decline of the Lithuanian Language". On August 25-26, St. Keinys ("Kap rokavuos veikšnėške priš šymta metu") and V. Vitkauskas ("Biržiškas — Atgimimo sąjūdžio žmonės") read their papers at the conference "Vieksniy kraštas ir profesoriai Biržiškos". At the conference "Lithuanian language: research and researchers" organized by the 238 Department of Language Lp Gi Lie "S History and Dialectology on October 25—26, 2009, to mark the 400th anniversary of the first Lithuanian book — the Catechism of Mikalojus Daukša — in Greater Lithuania (Vilnius, 1595), the following lecturers delivered their papers: Z. Zinkevičius ("On the origins of the language of the writings of Mikalojus Daukša"), J. Pajėdienė ("Intellectual situation in Lithuania in the second half of the 16th century and its reflection in the language of M. Daukša's translations"), N. Čepienė ("Germanisms in M. Daukša's writings"), M. Lučinskienė ("Some morphological differences between J. Jaknavičius' (1647) and 1705 "Ewangelie polskie y litewskie"), K. Eigminas. (*Notation of non-personalized verb forms in K. Sapūno-T. Šulco and D. Klein's grammar), L. Grumadienė ("Dictionary of frequencies of contemporary Lithuanian language (1995): structure and workflow"), V. Ambrazas ("The problem of the origin of the suffix -ininkas"), S. Ambrazas ("The origin of the suffix -ininkas"), D. Mikulėnienė ("The development of the pronunciation of prefixes of verbs and verb nouns"), V. Lazauskaitė ("Pronunciation of the suffix -ine, -inis of nouns*"), A. Zavadzkaitė ("The presentation of hispanismes and portugalisms in international dictionaries"), K. Garšva ("Distinction, notation, interpretation of suffixes"), E. Grinaveckienė ("Remains of nominative forms in Valkininkai dialect"), A. Leskauskaitė ("On the mixing of consonants ¢, d' and k', g' in Druskininkai dialect"), E. Trumpa ("On the relationship between hard consonants and vowels of type 4 in Pelesa dialect"), N. Vaišnytė ("Some cases of non-conformity of the noun genus of Ramaškonių šnektas with the genus of b.k. nouns"), A. Vidugiris ("On the expression of multiple action in southeastern dialects of Lithuanian language"). The conference was attended by guests from Latvia (E. Milčonoka, A. Ozolina, A. Stafecka) and Ukraine (A. Nepokupnas- ). V. Garliauskas, M. Razmukaitė participated in the first meeting of the United Nations Organization Baltic Division on geographical names in Tallinn on 26-27 October. On November 9, 2009, at the conference "Practice and Methodology of Implementation of Language Culture" organized by the Department of Language Culture and the Department of Lithuanian Language of the University of Vilnius, the following lecturers presented their papers: P. Kniūkšta ("Goals and Strategy of Language Management"), D. Mikulėnienė ("On the Meaning of Debt Selection"), A. Kupčinskaitė ("7 Language Consultations and Computerization of their Data"), D. Vainauskienė ("Computerization of Office Language Data"), L. Grumadienė (*"The Missing Code of Language- "), R. Miliūnaitė (* "Society about Language and Linguists- "), L. Vaicekauskienė ("How the image of a linguist with a spear is created. ; The conference is dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the linguist Kazis Ulvydas. On 10-11 November 2009, at the conference "Baltic Studies: Challenges and Methods" organized by the Catholic University of Eichstätt, the following lectures were read: 239 razas ("Several problems of diachronic word formation in the Baltic languages"), Z. Zinkevičius ("Problem of Lithuanian manuscript texts before Mažvydas"), S. Karaliūnas ("Etymology of the name Sembo and the problem of Estonian ethnic identity"). December 1-15. habil. dr. S. Karaliūnas worked at the Polish MA Institute of Slavistics in Warsaw. On December 14, Dr. St. Keinys presented a paper entitled "Words formation in Rygiškių Jono grammar" at a scientific conference dedicated to Jon Jablonski at Šiauliai Pedagogical University. On December 21, 2009, at the seminar "Language and computers" (organizer — Dr. L. Grumadienė) held at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, linguists were introduced to the computerized versions of the "Dictionary of Contemporary Lithuanian Language", "Lithuanian Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary Written Language", and the creation of the Term Bank. L. Grumadienė, D. Tekorienė, B. Stundžia, V. Žilinskienė, V. Černiauskas and others spoke. Meetings of scientists Meetings were held, in which: 9 May —Habil. dr. N. Sližienė; considered du Nominations for the LKI Director; June 20 — a new Institute Council of 14 members was elected: habil. dr. V. Ambrazas, prof. dr. V. Drotvinas, dr. K. Gaivenis, dr. J. Klimavičius, dr. P. Kniūkšta, prof. habil. dr. V. Kubilius, habil. dr. V. Maciejauskienė, doc. dr. D. Mikulėnienė, dr. K. Morkūnas, dr. N. Sližienė, Prof. Dr. A. Rosinas, habil dr. A. Sabaliauskas, prof. habil. Dr. Z. Zinkevičius. January 31 — the results of the research work in 1994 and the prospects were discussed; information on the Institute's 1995 budget; approved for the press "Kalbos kultūros" 67 sas. ; Dr. S. Ambrazo’s habilitation committee was formed. March 15 — discussion of the Terms Bank creation program; approved for the press "Lithuanian Linguistics Issues" 35 t. į May 5 — approved for the press "Terminology" (No. 2); adjusted N. Čepienės, D. Sabaliauskaitės doctoral study committees; discussed the issue of Election of LKI Director. , June 22 —V. Ambrazas, Ph.D., elected Chairman of the Institute Council, A. Sabaliauskas, Ph.D., elected Vice-Chairman, Dr. A. Sabaliauskas, Ph.D., elected Secretary. Mr. Nightingale. Prof. habil. dr. A. Rosinas. July 5 d. — approved LKI ir VDU Humanities (Linguistics) Doctoral and Habilitation Commission (chairperson — habil. dr. V. Maciejauskienė). September 26 d. — satisfied prof. Habil. Dr. A. Mr. Rosino's request to be dismissed from the post of Director of the Institute; new Director of the Institute elected prof. Habil. Dr. Z. Zinkevičius; approved ir adjusted LKI doctoral study committees. 240 noise p “ hed asi SA BR Rw, EE brightness ab 2 i r | October 29 — it was decided to submit the candidacy of Dr. A. Judžentis for the State scholarship. 5 December — new rates for data collection and translation of Lithuanian language were discussed; approved: LKI Regulations on the awarding of degrees; Recommendation to the VDU Senate on the granting of the professor’s pedagogical title to V. Ambrazas; In 1996, the Attestation Commission (habil. dr. S. Ambrazas, habil. dr. A. Kaulakienė, habil. dr. P. Kniūkšta, habil. dr. V. Maciejauskienė, habil. dr. A. Sabaliauskas, habil. dr. N. Sližienė, research associate Z. Šimėnaitė).. Guests of the Institute On April 26, the construction of the Lithuanian Language Institute with the depository of Lithuanian studies funds was inspected by Arvydas Matulionis, advisor to the President of the Republic of Lithuania. On 4 May, the Department of Language History and Dialectology was visited by Polish linguist Leszek Bednarczuk. Professor honored his friend A. Vanaga by visiting his eternal resting place in Antakalnis cemetery. On May 15, Prof. Denis Howard Green from the University of Cambridge visited the Institute. On May 17, a group of 12 teachers organized by the Lithuanian Language Society of Radviliškis district got acquainted with the work of the Departments of Dictionaries, Names, Language History and Dialectology and other departments of the Institute, the collection and preservation of data from living language and dialects. On June 19, experts of the Norwegian Science Council Prof. John Ole Askedal, Prof. Jostein Bgrtnes (chair), assistant Ingunn Lunde, Prof. Jan Peter Locher (Switzerland) updated information about the Institute’s scientific activities. On August 14, Dr. Zofia Sawaniewska-Mochowa from the Pedagogical Institute of Bydgoszcz visited the Dictionaries Department. On October 18, the Department of Language History and Dialectology was visited by the Russian linguist Georgiy Klimov. On November 10, the Dictionaries Department was visited by Dr. Mette Dalsgaard from the University of Copenhagen, a Danish translator and researcher of literature and Baltic-Scandinavian relations. The guest was accompanied by the director of the Baltoskandija Institute, Dr. Silvestras Gaižiūnas. On November 20, the third-year students of the Bydgoszcz Pedagogical Institute were introduced to the work of the Institute- ’s lexicographers and the academic Lithuanian language dictionary. Dates and people On January 4, academician Zigmantas Zinkevičius turned 70 years old. The Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania has opened an exhibition of Jubilee’s scientific works. Dr. V. Ambrazas spoke at the opening. On January 10, in the Small Hall of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Prof. Zigmas Zinkevičius delivered a lecture entitled “The most important problems of the history of the Lithuanian language”. At the anniversary event spoke habil. dr. A. Sabaliauskas. On January 11, the senate of Vilnius Pedagogical University granted the professor’s title to habil. dr. Alexander Vanguard. 241 On January 19, the Swedish linguist Richard Ekblom (1874 10 30 — 1959 04 07) was mentioned at the extended meeting of the Department of Language History and Dialectology. K. Morkūnas has extensively reviewed the work of the scientist in Baltic and Lithuanian studies. A. Sabaliauskas, D. Gargasaitė, N. Čepienė, D. Mikulėnienė presented interesting facts and data about R. Ekblom as a person and scientist. J. Karaciejus and D. Gargasaitė shared their impressions from the research mission to Uppsala University. On February 7, Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania A. Šleževičius, on the proposal of the Lithuanian Science Council, awarded the highest level state scholarship to Dr. Kaziui Carrot. On February 14, in the conference hall of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Prime Minister A. Šleževičius presented the 1994 Science Prizes of the Republic of Lithuania and laureate diplomas to Elena Grinaveckienė, Aldona Jonaitytė, Jonina Lipskienė, Kazis Morkūnas, Birutė Vanagiene, Aloyzas Vidugiris for their work "Atlas of the Lithuanian language" (Vol. 1 —Lexicography, Vol. 2 —Phonetics, Vol. 3 —Morphology. —V., 1977—1991). On February 15, the President of the Republic of Lithuania A. Brazauskas presented the Orders of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas of the 3rd degree to the distinguished linguists Aleksandr Vanagas and Zigmantas Zinkevičius. On February 15, the young staff of the Language Culture Department held a meeting with the correspondent member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Kazis Ulvydas. On February 17, the Department of Language History and Dialectology honoured its colleagues — winners of the 1994 National Prize for Science: Elena Grinaveckienė, Aldona Jonaitytė, Jonina Lipskienė, Kazys Morkūnas, Birutė Vanagienė, Aloizas Vidugiris. On February 24, 2017, Artūras Judžentis, assistant professor of the Department of Grammar, defended his PhD dissertation in the humanities (linguistics) on the topic "Comparative constructions in the ancient Lithuanian language". Doctoral Studies Committee: habil. dr. V. Ambrazas (chairman), doc. habil. dr. V. Labutis, habil. dr. A. Sabaliauskas, habil. dr. N. Sližienė, Prof. Habil. Dr. Z. Zinkevičius. Official opponents: prof. habil. dr. J. Palionis, Dr. A. Ružė. On March 7, the Head of the Namebook Department, Dr. Vitalija Maciejauskienė, defended her habilitation thesis in the humanities (linguistics) "Lithuanian surnames: development and origin". Habilitation committee: Prof. Dr. A. Vanagas (chairman), habil. dr. V. Ambrazas, prof. habil. dr. V. Mažiulis, prof. habil. dr. A. Rosinas, habil. dr. A. Sabaliauskas, habil. dr. N. Sližienė, prof. Habil. Dr. Z. Zinkevičius. On March 15, 2015, at the reporting session of the General Assembly of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, the following awards were presented: Zigmantas Zinkevičius for his significant researches on the legacy of the famous linguist K. Buga; Young Scientist Competition laureate diploma and prize for Dr. — Arturui To the už worker "The Order of Elements of Comparative Constructions in the Old Lithuanian Language". in Moslimnby works for these honorable awards presented by the Institute aryba. March 25 d. Head of the Grammar Department habil. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazu- 's birthday. 65 In the 6 d. name of the April linguists, Dr. K. Morkūnas congratulated the 242 Ns i small m TT Tania a a Tl friend of the Institute, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Latvia to Lithuania H.E. Albert Sarkanis on his birthday. On April 18, the Senior Research Associate of the Department of Language History and Dialectology, Dr. Saulius Ambrazas, defended his habilitation thesis in the humanities (linguistics) "The development of noun construction. "Lithuanian language". Habilitation committee: Prof. Dr. Z. Zinkevičius (chairman- ), Prof. habil. dr. E. Jakaitienė, habil. dr. S. Karaliūnas, prof. habil. dr. V. Mažiulis, prof. habil. dr. A. Rosinas, habil. dr. A. Sabaliauskas, prof. habil. dr. V. Urbutis. 22 April 2012. Dr. On behalf of the Institute, A. Sabaliauskas congratulated Dr. Antana Kučinskaitė on her 80th birthday. On April 26, a new publication was presented in the Lithuanian MA library (Lietuvių kalbbotyra, 1973—1976; Literatūros. rodyklė /Prepared by R. Sedekerskytė, A. Ubeikaitė. —V.: Lietuvos MA b-ka: Lietuvių k. inst., 1994. — 392 p.). K. Morkūnas and A. Sabaliauskas, members of the editorial board and authors of the publication, who helped to select and systematize the material, participated in the event and spoke: On June 3, in Veliuona, habil. dr. A. Sabaliauskas. Birželio 14 d. Vardyno skyriaus vadovei habil. dr. Vitalija Maciejauskiene turned 50 years old. On June 21, the senate of Vilnius Pedagogical University granted Dr. Laima Grumadiene the title of associate professor of pedagogical science. On 1 August, the Head of the Dictionaries Department, doc. dr. Vytautas Vitkauskas turned 60 years old. On August 27, the correspondent member of the Lithuanian MA, Dr. Kazis Ulvydas, turned 85 years old. 10 October 2000. prof. Zigmas Zinkevičius is elected a foreign member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. On October 17, the Institute congratulated the linguist Kazys Ulvydas on his honorable anniversary by his colleagues and friends. On November 17-18, the anniversaries of the Catechism of Mikalojus Daukša (400 years) and the linguist Kazis Ulvydas were celebrated in Kėdainiai. Dr. P. Kniūkšta read a report on K. Ulvydas’s scientific activities. The prominent linguist was elected an honorary citizen of Kedainiy city. On November 27, the Lithuanian Chamber of Artists and the Lithuanian Society of Theatre History and Traditions organized a meeting with the speaker and theatrologist doc. dr. Vytautu Vitkausku. The anniversary evening was attended by theatrologists, actors, linguists. Not only students of the Theatre and Film Faculty of the Music Academy played and read poems, but also Jubiliatas himself. There was an exhibition of photographs and scientific works. On November 30, the employees of the Dictionaries Department congratulated their head Vytautas Vitkauskas on his anniversary by presenting the prepared and published bibliography of his works. 10 December 2016 Senior Research Associate of the Department of Grammar, habil. dr. Adele Valeckiene turned 70 years old. * * * 243