Acta Linguistica Lithuanica

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Vilnius 2024

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Acad. Prof. Habil. Dr. Grasilda Blažienė (Institute of the Lithuanian Language)

DEPUTY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Dr. Aurelija Tamulionienė (Institute of the Lithuanian Language)

EDITORIAL BOARD

Prof. Dr. Xaverio Ballester (Francisco Javier Ballester Gómez) (University of Valencia, Spain) Prof. Dr. Ineta Dabašinskienė (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania) Prof. Dr. Pietro Umberto Dini (University of Pisa, Italy) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Olena Fomenko (Фоменко Олена Степанівна) (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine) Prof. UL Habil. Dr. Artur Gałkowski (University of Łódź, Poland) Prof. Habil. Dr. Jolanta Gelumbeckaitė (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany) PhDr. Milan Harvalík, Ph.D. (Ľudovít Štúr Institute of Linguistics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, p. r. i., Bratislava, Slovakia) Prof. (Apl.) Habil. Dr. Marie-Luise Heckmann (University of Potsdam, Germany) Assoc. Habil. Dr. Tomáš Hoskovec (Prague Linguistic Circle, Czechia) Prof. Dr. Brian D. Joseph (Ohio University, United States of America) Prof. Dr. Laima Kalėdienė (Institute of the Lithuanian Language, Lithuania) Prof. (Apl.) Habil. Dr. Götz Keydana (University of Göttingen, Germany) Dr. Asta Leskauskaitė (Institute of the Lithuanian Language, Lithuania) Prof. Dr. Alessandro Parenti (University of Trento, Italy) Prof. Dr. Daniel Petit (École normale supérieure, Paris, France) Dr. philol. Sanda Rapa (Institute of the Latvian Language, University of Latvia, Latvia) Prof. Dr. Daiva Sinkevičiūtė (Vilnius University, Lithuania) Prof. Habil. Dr. Pēteris Vanags (University of Latvia, Stockholm University, Latvia, Sweden)

ASSISTANT TO THE EDITOR

Dr. Darius Ivoška (Institute of the Lithuanian Language)

COMMUNICATIONS EDITOR

Dr. Pavel Skorupa (Institute of the Lithuanian Language)

COMPILED BY

Acad. Prof. Habil. Dr. Grasilda Blažienė (Institute of the Lithuanian Language)

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DOI: doi.org/10.35321/all91

© Authors of the publications, 2024

ISSN 1648–4444

© Institute of the Lithuanian Language, Vilnius, 2024

CONTENTS

ARTICLES

Darius Juoška, Andrej Ryčkov Mapping the Boundary of Vyžuonos: 15th-Century Personal Names of North-Eastern Lithuania and the (Un)forgotten Road........................................ 11 Mapping the Boundaries of Vyžuonos: 15th-Century Personal Names and the Enduring Legacy of North-Eastern Lithuania

Ilja Lemeškin Forma Chrikſtima (1559) from a formal perspective. Acrostic by priest M. Mažvydas........................................ 39 Forma Chrikſtima (1559) from a formal perspective. Acrostic by priest M. Mažvydas

Harald Bichlmeier Addenda etymologica to “Notes on Some Lithuanian Hydronyms Beginning with An and Their Non-Baltic Relatives”........................................ 66 Etymological Additions to the Article “Notes on Several Lithuanian Hydronyms Beginning with An- and Their Non-Baltic Relatives”

Sandra Lukšaitė-Ramonienė, Vytautas Rinkevičius The Development of Stress Patterns in Lithuanian Verbs with the Suffix –(i)uoti........................ 77 Accentuation History of Lithuanian Verbs in –(i)uoti

Paweł Brudzyński Disappearance of the Auxiliary Verb esti from the Lithuanian Passive........................................ 117 Disappearance of the auxiliary verb esti in the Lithuanian passive

Oleksandra V. Popova, Olga A. Kopus, Oleksandra O. Morhun Lithuanian–Ukrainian Language Parallels: Etymological Relationship and Typological Similarity........................................ 147 Lithuanian–Ukrainian Language Parallels: Etymological Relationship and Typological Similarity

Rita Miliūnaitė Nouns with the Suffix -istas, -ė in Terms of Variation, Norms, and the Substandardization of Contemporary Standard Lithuanian........................................ 177 Nouns with the Suffix -istas, -ė in the Aspect of Variation, Norm and Substandardization of the Current Standard Lithuanian Language

Laura Brazaitienė Images of the Dialectal Language of Young Eastern Aukštaitians—Anykščiai, Kupiškis, and Utena Dialect Speakers: Boundaries and Objective Dialecticity........................................ 198 Dialect Images of the Young Eastern Aukštaitians of Anykščiai, Kupiškis and Utena: Borders and Objective Dialecticity

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Nataliia Darchuk, Oksana Zuban, Valentyna Robeiko, Yuliia Tsyhvintseva, Victor Sorokin, Mykola Sazhok

The System for Automatic Stylometric Analysis of Ukrainian Media Texts TextAttributor 1.0 (Techniques, Means, Functionality).......... 224 „TextAttributor 1.0“ (metodai, priemonės, funkcionalumas)

Žydrūnė Šalaviejūtė

Nomination and Motivation of the Names of Aquatic Animals in the Northern Samogitian Subdialect........................................ 248 Nomination and Motivation of the Names of Aquatic Animals in the Northern Samogitian Subdialect

Lina Rutkienė

Contextual Substantivisation on the Websites of Higher Education and Vocational Training Institutions........................................ 264 Contextual Substantivisation on the Websites of Higher Education and Vocational Training Institutions

Victor O. Ntabo, Catherine W. Ndung’u

Exploring Endearing Metaphors among Swahili Youths in Mombasa County, Kenya: Insights from Conceptual Mappings........................................ 287 Exploring Endearing Metaphors among Swahili Youths in Mombasa County, Kenya: Insights from Conceptual Mappings

Fince L. Sambeka, Muhammad I. Ali

Evolution of Abstracting Metaphors in Modern Japanese J-pop Lyrics: Analysis of Linguistic Devices........................................ 310 Evolution of Abstracting Metaphors in Modern Japanese J-pop Lyrics: Analysis of Linguistic Devices

INSIGHTS

Zigmas Zinkevičius

Anniversary of a Meticulous and Conscientious Linguist........................................ 331

REVIEWS

Lina Murinienė

Evaldas Švageris, Jolita Urbanavičienė. Interaction and Hierarchy of Factors Determining the Formant Structure and Duration of Lithuanian Vowels............ 335

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Dear readers of Acta Linguistica Lituanica!

To paraphrase the talented poet, painter, and medallist Gvidas Latakas, it is worth saying: whoever has soaked through with the wine of scholarship to the very core need no longer fear the rain. Living in scholarship for many years, being with it, conversing with it, and awaiting its response, one finds ideas and ways of expressing them, and develops a desire or wish to investigate as much as possible, as deeply as possible, and as newly as possible. The languages in which scholars can express their thoughts, discoveries, and possibilities are limitless; an article’s idea can be conveyed both substantially and intriguingly. Recently, while discussing a text written by my friend, the renowned composer Giedrius Kuprevičius, I used the phrase deep understanding, receiving a favorable evaluation from seasoned Facebook readers. The power of the word is especially significant if we understand it. Many years ago, we met in archives and libraries, where we spent many days and months; counted together, they could amount to years, and not merely one or two. The unforgettable smell of manuscripts, the simple and sincere nod of the head to neighbors—all this has remained in our memories, and sincere communication with more than one of them has been cherished to this day. Out of habit, I greet the computer screen every day as well, because its contents bring articles by authors, insights from reviewers, and sometimes letters that have been written.

In search of deep understanding, I continue to reflect on it. Pliny the Younger (61 or 62–c. 113), in his letters, recalled his uncle Pliny the Elder’s (23–24–79) infinite desire to read, because, he said, there is no book so poor that it contains nothing of value. I would think that every journal team hopes that no issue of the journal will contain articles that no one will want to read, and that many of our scholarly experiences will be reborn precisely through reading a journal volume and inspire searches, new ideas, writing, and creation. One can also look in a journal for a topic for discussion or inspiration for one’s scholarly work. Sometimes a single essential word is enough for such inspiration to release a multitude of sources. One of them ought to be a source of respect for the authors. Readers understand what has been found, and perhaps what has been lost.

Volume 91 of the journal begins with the identification of personal names from fifteenth-century North-Eastern Lithuania and of a physical road. The joint work of a historian and a Baltist is heartening. One cannot fail to mention the study of the acrostic created by Martynas Mažvydas in the 1559 publication FORMA Chrikštima. There are also considerations concerning several Lithuanian hydronyms and their non-Baltic relatives. Attention is devoted to

Lithuanian verbs and their accentuation, as well as to the disappearance of the auxiliary verb esti from the passive. It is gratifying that a young colleague from Poland writes about this, giving hope that grammatical phenomena of our language will likely also be discussed in the neighboring country. The variation of our language, its norms, and contemporary standard Lithuanian are not forgotten. The authors also devote attention to dialects of our native language—the young Eastern Aukštaitians and the Northern Samogitians. There is also a study based on data from websites. It is gratifying that the attention of foreign authors is also turning to parallels between Lithuanian and Ukrainian—the etymological relationship and typological similarity are examined. Given the difficult conditions of life and of writing scholarly works, one can understand that sometimes time flows more slowly or, in the case in question, more quickly. An ambitious group of authors from Kyiv has presented specialized studies of Ukrainian media texts. Why speak of ambition? The authors wrote many letters, revised the text, and demonstrated each author’s contribution. They fought for their idea, sensing its importance and the need to prove their case. A colleague from Kenya offers an interesting study of metaphors of admiration used by the younger generation. The gaze of Indonesian authors turned to the evolution of abstracting metaphors in contemporary Japanese J-pop lyrics. They were interested in analyzing linguistic devices. The editor-in-chief’s family members, who live and work in Australia and have extensive information about the level of science and education in the countries mentioned, confirmed the curiosity of educated scholars and students from those countries and their awareness of the importance of learning foreign languages. The Insights section also received a contribution—a colleague, Mindaugas Šinkūnas, submitted a manuscript by the academician, his grandfather Zigmas Zinkevičius, intended to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the linguist Jadvyga Kardelytė, celebrated on February 17, 2019. She died on August 15, 2024, at the age of 95. In Zigmas Zinkevičius’s archive, an unfinished manuscript prepared for publication was found, For the Anniversary of a Meticulous and Conscientious Linguist, with the author’s note “to be postponed until the anniversary.”

The 91st volume of ALL also contains one review.

Those who work on publishing the journal wish for its texts to cast a long shadow. In publishing the journal, we move forward together. We work patiently, but strive for scholarly truth. Anything may be expected, but the journal, like a person, grows accustomed to other people who cover its body and reveal its identity. One may play from memory; one must write from what one understands best, with what can surprise not only readers but sometimes oneself. We hope that our readers’ smiles will become brighter and their thoughts clearer when they open the journal and read what has been written. Let us write in 2025 as well, a year that may be generous with new ideas and inspiration.

Editor-in-Chief Grasilda Blažienė

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