CHRONICLE OF THE INSTITUTE OF THE LITHUANIAN LANGUAGE

1998

Structure

There were 7 divisions: the Great Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language (head: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vytautas Vitkauskas), Dictionaries of Standard Lithuanian (established on 1998 11 16, head: Dr. Gertrūda Naktinienė), the Onomastics Division (head: Habil. Dr. Vitalija Maciejauskienė), the Grammar Division (head: Prof. Habil. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazas), the Language Culture Division (head: Dr. Pranas Kniūkšta), the Terminology Division (head: Dr. Kazimieras Gaivenis), the Language History and Dialectology Division (head: Dr. Kazys Morkūnas); and the Publications Group (head: Audronė Stanislovaitienė).

The Institute’s director was Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas. The deputy directors were Dr. Kazys Morkūnas (for research affairs) and Kęstutis Jurkūnas (for general affairs). The scientific secretary was Dr. Artūras Judžentis (until October 31) and Irena Andriukaitienė (from November 2).

At the end of 1998, the Institute had 140 employees, including 105 research staff (37 researchers: 3 habilitated doctors who were professors, 5 habilitated doctors, 5 doctors who were associate professors, and 24 doctors).

From September 15, the following were admitted to the doctoral programme in philology in the humanities, jointly run by VDU and LKI and funded by the Institute: Jurga Girčienė, Alma Ragauskaitė, Algis Rubinas, Jolita Urbanavičienė (20 doctoral students were enrolled in total).

Main Areas of Activity

The following main areas of the Institute’s activity were established by Resolution No. 825 of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, dated 1998 07 02:

1. Research on Lithuanian lexicology, lexicography, and grammatical structure;

2. Research on the history and dialectology of the Lithuanian language and on language contacts;

3. Research on the functioning of the Lithuanian language in society and on terminology.

By Resolution No. 457 of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, dated 1998 04 14, the Institute, together with Vytautas Magnus University, was granted for five years the right to establish a doctoral programme and award the doctoral degree.

By Resolution No. 900 of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, dated 1998 07 20, the Institute, together with the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, was granted for five years the right to award the habilitated doctoral degree.

The Institute Council’s Most Important Decisions

Council Chair: Prof. Habil. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazas; Deputy Chair: Habil. Dr. Nijolė Sl žienė; Secretary: Dr. Gertrūda Naktinienė.

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A total of 6 Council meetings were held.

At the meeting of January 28: 1) the concept for the Dictionary of Standard Lithuanian was discussed; 2) the Institute’s areas of activity were revised; 3) the following publications were approved for printing: Nijolė Sližienė. Dictionary of Lithuanian Verb Valency. II(1); Zita Šimėnaitė. Lithuanian Phraseology, 1956–1997: Bibliography; 4) the 1998 Attestation Commission was approved with the following composition: Chair—Habil. Dr. Nijolė Sližienė; members: Habil. Dr. Saulius Ambrazas, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Angelė Kaulakienė, Dr. Pranas Kniūkšta, Marija Razmukaitė, Zita Šimėnaitė, Dr. Aloyzas Vidugiris; 5) Habil. Dr. Simas Karaliūnas was approved as chair of the joint LKI and VDU doctoral and habilitation commission.

At the meeting of March 5: 1) the Institute’s 1997 scientific activity report and 1998 plan were approved; 2) it was decided to nominate Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas as a candidate for corresponding membership in the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences; 3) the Institute and Vilnius University local history association’s publication Homo sum. Words for Kazimieras Eigminas was approved for printing; 4) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Juozas Karaciejus was appointed to the joint VDU and LKI doctoral and habilitation commission in place of Habil. Dr. Nijolė Sližienė; 5) it was decided that the Directorate should set the amounts of awards, allowances, and support granted to Institute employees, taking into account the circumstances and the Institute’s financial means.

At the meeting of May 26: 1) it was decided to establish a Dictionary of Standard Language Section at the Institute; 2) the Attestation Commission’s decision to attest Dr. Laimutis Bilkis, assistant in the Onomastics Section, as a senior research fellow for five years was approved; 3) the following publications were approved for printing: Laima Grumadienė, Vida Žilinskienė. Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary Written Lithuanian (Alphabetical Order); Jonas Kruopas. Selected Writings; Language Advice Information Bulletin 4; 4) the rates for the Institute’s publishing work carried out under separate agreements were approved; 5) the following were approved: the composition of the joint LKI and VDU doctoral commission (Habil. Dr. Simas Karaliūnas (chair), Prof. Habil. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazas (deputy chair), Dr. Rūta Marcinkevičienė (secretary), Dr. Artūras Judžentis, Prof. Habil. Dr. Vytautas Kaminskas, Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas, Prof. Habil. Dr. Albertas Rosinas, Prof. Habil. Dr. Zigmas Zinkevičius); the commission for the competition for section heads (Dr. Kazys Gaivenis, Dr. Artūras Judžentis, Habil. Dr. Nijolė Sližienė); the regulations for Evelina Kolupailaitė Masiokienė’s scholarship; 6) it was agreed to supplement the editorial boards of the Institute’s serial publications.

At the meeting of September 3: 1) the following were elected heads of sections: Dictionary of Standard Language—Dr. Gertrūda Naktinienė; Language History and Dialectology—Dr. Kazys Morkūnas; Onomastics—Habil. Dr. Vitalija Maciejauskienė; 2) the publication Questions in Lithuanian Linguistics 39 was approved for printing; 3) the following were approved: the composition of the joint LKI and LLTI habilitation commission (Prof. Habil. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazas, Prof. Habil. Dr. Kazys Grigas, Prof. Habil. Dr. Vytautas Kubilius, Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas, Prof. Habil. Dr. Leonardas Sauka, Habil. Dr. Nijolė Sližienė, Habil. Dr. Vytautas Vanagas); the Institute’s doctoral admissions commission (Prof. Habil. Dr. Vy-

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tautas Ambrazas (chair), Dr. Artūras Judžentis, Prof. Habil. Dr. Albertas Rosinas, Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas, Prof. Habil. Dr. Zigmas Zinkevičius); 4) the doctoral completion deadlines for doctoral students Ona Aleknavičienė, Jolanta Gelumbečkaitė, and Vita Pranskūnaitė were revised; 5) the composition of external doctoral student Zita Šimėnaitė’s doctoral committee was changed; 6) doctoral student Edmundas Trumpa was proposed as a candidate for Evelina Kolupailaitė Masiokienė’s one-time scholarship.

At the meeting of October 21: 1) the Attestation Commission’s decisions and doctoral committees for newly admitted doctoral students were approved; 2) the following Institute publications were approved for printing: Office Language Advice. Revised and expanded edition; Language Advice Information Bulletin 5; Terminology 5; Sofija Kezytė. Bibliography (compiled by Zita Šimėnaitė, edited by Kazys Morkūnas); 3) it was decided to nominate Dr. Aloyzas Vidugiris for the highest-degree state scholarship and Dr. Daiva Murulaitytė for a state scholarship for young researchers; 4) Irena Andriukaitienė was appointed to the position of scientific secretary; 5) changes to the editorial boards of the Institute’s publications were approved: Prof. Habil. Dr. Vitas Labutis was appointed to the editorial board of Language Culture in place of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aldonas Pupkis; Prof. Habil. Dr. Axel Holvoet was additionally appointed to the editorial board of Questions in Lithuanian Linguistics; Prof. Habil. Dr. Valentina Skujinia was additionally appointed to the editorial board of Terminology; 6) the general section of the list of recipients of abstracts of dissertations defended at the Institute was approved.

At the meeting of December 2: 1) the foundations and principles for compiling the “Dictionary of Standard Lithuanian” were endorsed; 2) the habilitation committee for Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vytautas Vitkauskas was approved, and the title of his habilitation thesis was revised to “Morphonemic Phenomena in Lithuanian Dialects and Their Variation”; 3) the following publications were approved for printing: Questions in Lithuanian Linguistics 40, Language Culture 71, Language Advice Information Bulletin 6.

Publishing

Bilkis, Laimutis. Prefixal formation of Lithuanian helonyms: Summary of doctoral dissertation. Humanities, philology, Baltic languages (H 591). – V.: Institute of the Lithuanian Language, 1998. – 22 p. – 100 copies.

Grumadienė, Laima, Žilinskienė, Vida. A frequency dictionary of contemporary written Lithuanian (alphabetical order). – V.: Institute of the Lithuanian Language, 1st ed., 1998. – XXXVI, 474 p. – 250 copies.

Homo sum. Words for Kazimieras Eigminas / compiled by Klaudijus Driskius, Artūras Judžentis, Venantas Mačiekus; edited by Kostas Aleksynas, Artūras Judžentis. – V.: Institute of the Lithuanian Language, 1st ed., 1998. – 297 p. – 1,000 copies.

Jonas Kruopas and contemporary Lithuanian terminology (Programme and abstracts of the research seminar. Vilnius, June 24, 1998) / compiled and edited by Stasys Keinys. – V.: Institute of the Lithuanian Language, 1st ed., 1998. – 16 p. – 150 copies.

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Kruopas, Jonas. Selected writings / compiled by Stasys Keinys, Kazys Morkūnas, Algirdas Sabaliauskas. – V.: Institute of Publishing of Science and Encyclopedias, 1998. – 555 p., [8] leaves of illustrations. – 500 copies.

Language Culture / editorial board: Vytautas Ambrazas, Kazimieras Gaivenis, Pranas Kniūkšta (editor-in-chief), Vitas Labutis, Vitalija Maciejauskienė, Rita Miliūnaitė, Gertrūda Naktinienė; compiled and prepared for publication by Albina Bataitytė. – V.: Institute of the Lithuanian Language, 1st ed., 1998. – Issue 71. – 124 p. – 1,500 copies.

Language Advice information bulletin 4. July–December 1996 / edited by Rita Miliūnaitė, prepared for publication by Janina Vileikienė. – V.: Institute of Publishing of Science and Encyclopedias, 1998. – 62 p. – 500 copies.

Language Advice information bulletin 5. January–June 1997 / edited by Rita Miliūnaitė, prepared for publication by Janina Vileikienė. – V.: Institute of Publishing of Science and Encyclopedias, 1998. – 41 p. – 500 copies.

Language Advice information bulletin 6. July–December 1997 / edited by Rita Miliūnaitė, prepared for publication by Janina Vileikienė. – V.: Institute of Publishing of Science and Encyclopedias, 1998. – 50 p. – 500 copies.

Advice on official language / Institute of the Lithuanian Language; prepared by P. Kniūkšta. – Revised and expanded edition. – V: Institute of Publishing of Science and Encyclopedias, 1998. – 339 [1] p. – 5,000 copies.

The Lithuanian Language: researchers and research: commemorating the 150th anniversary of Kazimieras Jaunius’s birth and the 90th anniversary of his death (Abstracts of papers from the conference of the Institute of the Lithuanian Language and Vilnius Pedagogical University. October 22–23, 1998) / compiled by Kazys Morkūnas. – V.: Institute of the Lithuanian Language, 1st ed., 1998. – 40 p. – 150 copies.

Issues in Lithuanian Linguistics. Vol. 39 / editorial board: Kazys Morkūnas (editor-in-chief), Vytautas Ambrazas (deputy editor-in-chief), Aina Blinkena, Vincentas Drotvinas, Axel Holvoet, Vitalija Maciejauskienė, Danguolė Mikulėnienė, Gertrūda Naktininė, Bonifacas Stundžia, Zigmas Zinkevičius; compiled by Danguolė Mikulėnienė, Kazys Morkūnas, Algirdas Sabaliauskas. – V.: Institute of the Lithuanian Language, 1st ed., 1998. – 275 p. – 500 copies.

Issues in Lithuanian Linguistics. Vol. 40 / editorial board: Kazys Morkūnas (editor-in-chief), Vytautas Ambrazas (deputy editor-in-chief), Aina Blinkena, Vincentas Drotvinas, Axel Holvoet, Vitalija Maciejauskienė, Danguolė Mikulėnienė, Gertrūda Naktininė, Bonifacas Stundžia, Zigmas Zinkevičius; compiled by Daiva Atkočaitytė, Rima Bacevičiūtė, Vilija Lazauskaitė, Asta Leskauskaitė, Kazys Morkūnas, Edmundas Trumpa. – V.: Institute of the Lithuanian Language, 1st ed., 1998. – 256 p. – 500 copies.

Razmukaitė, Marija. Suffixal oikonyms of Lithuania: Summary of doctoral dissertation. Humanities, philology, onomastics (H 370). – V.: Institute of the Lithuanian Language, 1st ed., 1998. – 22 p. – 100 copies.

Sližienė, Nijolė. Dictionary of Lithuanian verb valency. II (1) N-R. – V.: Institute of Publishing of Science and Encyclopedias, 1998. – 325 p. – 1,000 copies.

Šimėnaitė, Zita. Lithuanian Phraseology. 1956–1977 / ed. Jonas Paulauskas. – V.: Lithuanian Language Institute Publishing House, 1998. – 31 p. – 300 copies.

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Terminology / editorial board: Antanas Buračas, Kazimieras Gaivenis (executive editor), Angelė Kaulakienė, Jonas Klimavičius (deputy executive editor), Valentina Skujinia, Algirdas Smilgevičius. – V.: Lithuanian Language Institute Publishing House, 1998. – Fasc. 5. – 159 p. – 500 copies.

Valeckienė, Adelė. A Functional Grammar of Lithuanian. – V.: Institute of Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing, 1998. – 416 p. – 2,000 copies.

Valiulytė, Elena. Syntactic Synonyms in Lithuanian: The Expression of Place, Time, and Cause. – V.: Institute of Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing, 1998. – 427,[1] p. – 1,000 copies.

Vidugiris, Aloyzas. Dictionary of the Zietela Dialect / scientific ed. Danguolė Mikulėnienė. – V.: Institute of Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing, 1998. – 846 [1] p. – 800 copies.

Funding for publication was provided by the Ministry of Education and Science and the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language under the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, as part of the 1996–2005 State Programme for the Use and Development of the State Language.

Computer books (first versions on compact discs):

Lithuanian Dialects. Multimedia Dictionary (Part 1). 1998.

Project team: Danguolė Mikulėnienė, Kazys Morkūnas, Aloyzas Vidugiris, Daiva Atkočaitytė, Asta Leskauskaitė, Edmundas Trumpa (LKI), Laimutis Telksnys, Kęstutis Juškevičius, Evaldas Ožeraitis (MII), Stasys Gutautas, Ignas Miniotas (Lithuanian Open-Air Museum).

The work was funded by UNESCO.

Lietuvių kalbos tarmės. Chrestomatija. 1998.

Project team: Audra Zavadzkaitė, Asta Leskauskaitė, Edmundas Trumpa (LKI), Evaldas Ožeraitis (MII).

The work was funded by the State Science and Studies Foundation.

Other publications prepared by Institute staff:

Kniūkšta, Pranas, Lyberis, Antanas. Lithuanian Spelling and Stress Dictionary for Learners. – 6th ed. – K.: Šviesa, 1998. – 367 p. – 10,000 copies.

A Guide to the Lithuanian Language / Bronius Dobrovolskis, Pranas Kniūkšta, Antanė Kučinskaitė, Aldona Paulauskienė, Asta Ryklienė, Bonifacas Stundžia, Danutė Tarvydaitė; compiled by Pranas Kniūkšta. – K.: Šviesa, 1998. – 543 p. – 10,000 copies.

School Dictionary of International Words / Irena Ermanytė, Ona Kažukauskaitė, Jonas Paulauskas, Joana Pribušauskaitė, Janina Žiemytė. – 2nd revised and expanded ed. – K.: Šviesa, 1998. – 437 p. – 4,000 copies.

Participation in the press

A total of 68 scholarly articles (13 in foreign publications) and 113 popular-science articles were published. Forty conference abstracts were printed.

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Scientific expeditions

The Department of the History of the Lithuanian Language and Dialectology organized three expeditions: June 24–July 5 dialectological data in the Daukšiai area of Marijampolė District were collected together with students from Vilnius Pedagogical University by Dr. Laima Grumadienė (leader) and Vita Pranskunaitė; July 7–19 data were collected according to dialectological questionnaires in the Viduklė area of Raseiniai District by Daiva Atkočaitytė (leader), together with students from Vilnius Pedagogical University; July 22–31 dialect material was collected in the Kučiūnai area of Lazdijai District by Ona Aleknavičienė, Asta Leskauskaitė (leader), Rima Bacevičiūtė, and Edmundas Trumpa.

Various language and dialect data were also collected in the environs of Biržai (dr. Gertrūda Naktienienė), Griškabūdis (Vilija Sakalauskienė), Ignalina (Algis Rubinas), Kabėliai, Malkava (Asta Žūkaitė), Kučiūnai, Veisiejai (Vilija Lazauskaitė), Šakiai (Rima Bacevičiūtė), Švėkšna (Adelė Judeikienė), and Veiviržėnai (dr. Irena Ermanytė). Several trips were made to Belarus: in the environs of Apsas, words for the academic Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language were collected by Vidmantas Kuprevičius and Asta Žūkaitė; in the Breslauja District, local Lithuanian-language data were recorded by dr. Kazys Garšva; the dialect of Lithuanians living in the environs of Varenavas was studied by Nijolė Tuomienė; the Zietela dialect was investigated by dr. Kazys Morkūnas, Edmundas Trumpa, and dr. Aloyzas Vidugiris.

In total, employees of the Great Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language Department collected 2,160 words; colleagues from the Department of Language History and Dialectology collected about 5,000 items of dialect data and recorded 50 hours of dialect texts.

Conferences, seminars

February 11–12 At the seminar The State Language and Integration (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), organized by the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language and the Department of Regional Problems and National Minorities, papers were delivered by Vilija Lazauskaitė (The State Language Use and Education Programme: Development and Prospects), Associate Professor Danguolė Mikulėnienė (The Status of the State Language de jure and de facto: Problems of Its Implementation and Regulation), and Asta Ryklienė (Language-Culture Work under the State Language Use and Education Programme).

March 10–12 At the Baltic Studies section of the 27th Scientific and Methodological Conference for Faculty and Postgraduate Students of Higher Education Institutions in St. Petersburg, organized by Professor Leonardas Gercenbergas and postgraduate student Aleksejus Andronovas, Institute linguists also delivered papers: Asta Leskauskaitė (Consonant Depalatalization and Front-Vowelism in Southwestern Highland Lithuanian Dialects), Edmundas Trumpa (Reflexes of the Clusters *tj, *dj in the Zietela Dialect and the Possibility of Dzūkian Pronunciation), and dr. Artūras Judžentis (The Structure of the Complex Sentence in Lithuanian Grammars).

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On April 24, the Faculty of Humanities and the Dialectology Center of Šiauliai University held a seminar dedicated to Aldona Jonaitýtė’s 70th birthday, Dialects: Research and Prospects. Dr. Kazimieras Garšva (Latvianisms, Other Loanwords, and Shared Words in Northern Lithuania), Vilija Lazauskaitė (On the Presentation of Dialect Words and Their Meanings in DLKŽ), Dr. Kazys Morkūnas (Research on Lithuanian Dialects: History and Present), and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vytautas Vitkauskas (A Union of Dialects?) congratulated the jubilarian and delivered presentations at the seminar. Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas and Dr. Aloyzas Vidugiris also took part in the seminar and congratulated the jubilarian.

On May 20–22, Dr. Angelė Kaulakienė also participated in the international conference Towards European Terminology (Towards European Terminology), held in Budapest, and delivered a presentation entitled Peculiarities of the Evolution of Lithuanian Physics Terminology (Pecularities of the evolution of Lithuanian physics terminology).

On May 28, the Institute’s Language Culture Department held a discussion seminar, Foreign Words in the Media, in the hall of the Vilnius City Municipality. The seminar was chaired by Jurga Girčienė and Asta Ryklyienė. Dr. Angelė Kaulakienė, Habil. Dr. Nijolė Sližienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Danguolė Mikulėnienė, and Dr. Pranas Kniūkšta took part in the discussions and answered questions.

On June 24, presentations were delivered at the scholarly seminar Jonas Kruopas and Contemporary Lithuanian Terminology, dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Jonas Kruopas, by Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas (The Linguist Jonas Kruopas), Dr. Kazimieras Gaivenis (J. Kruopas’s Views on Terminology), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Stasys Keinys (J. Kruopas’s Work on Terminology), Dr. Angelė Kaulakienė (J. Kruopas—a Proponent of the Consistent and Systematic Organization of Physics Terminology), doctoral student Albina Auksoriūtė (The Dictionaries of Laurynas Ivinskis), and Dr. Jonas Klimavičius (Thread, Strand, Yarn, to Spin, to Twist, to Cast, to Weave). The seminar presentations’ abstracts were published in a separate booklet.

On August 17–21, Dr. Laimutis Bilkis (Research on Lithuanian Hydronyms), Vytautas Kardelis (On One Case of Slavic Loanword Adaptation), and Gina Kavaliūnaitė (Problems in Preparing a Computerized Version of Chylinski’s New Testament Translation Manuscript) delivered presentations at Philologia Baltika’98, the summer academy for young Balticists organized by the Institute of Baltic Studies at the University of Greifswald.

On August 28–29, Habil. Dr. Simas Karaliūnas delivered a presentation entitled On Issues in the Formation of Baltic and Slavic Ethnonyms at the 12th International Congress of Slavists in Kraków.

On October 3–4, Loreta Vaicekauskienė took part in a seminar held at the University of Copenhagen for teachers of Danish in Scandinavia and the Baltic countries, and delivered a presentation entitled Attitudes toward Foreign Words in Lithuania and Denmark.

On October 8–12, at the invitation of the Milan Linguistics Society, Prof. Habil. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazas participated in the international congress “Linguistics in the Second Half of the 20th Century” and delivered a presentation entitled Neue Richtungen in der baltischen historischen Sprachwissenschaft.

On October 9, at the conference on Jonas Jablonskis organized by the Institute’s Language Culture Department and the Department of Lithuanian Language at Vilnius University, New Language Phenomena

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tions and their evaluation seventeen papers were presented. Seven of them were by Institute researchers: Jurga Girčienė’s Equivalents for New Foreign Words: Derivational Neolog-isms, Dr. Angelė Kaulakienė’s Real and Imaginary Terminological Neolog-isms, Dr. Pranas Kniūkšta’s The Word’s Derivational and Derivation(al) Meaning, Dr. Rita Miliūnaitė’s New Language Phenomena: Natural and Artificial Selection, Asta Ryklienė’s Invariable Words in Contemporary Lithuanian, Loreta Vaicekauskienė’s Evaluation of Foreign Words: An Analysis of Language Users’ Attitudes, and Ramunė Vaskelaitė’s The Internal Adessive in Contemporary Journalism. In addition, Institute linguists chaired the sessions: the first was chaired by Dr. Angelė Kaulakienė and Dr. Pranas Kniūkšta, the second by Asta Ryklienė (together with Prof. Habil. Dr. Vitas Labutis), and the third by Jurga Girčienė (together with Prof. Habil. Dr. Kazimieras Župerka). The conference abstracts were published in a separate booklet, and the full papers are to appear in a volume of Questions of Lithuanian Linguistics compiled by the Department of Language Culture.

On October 22–23, the Institute, together with Vilnius Pedagogical University, held a conference The Lithuanian Language: Researchers and Research to mark the 150th anniversary of Kazimieras Jaunius’s birth and the 90th anniversary of his death. The following Institute researchers presented papers at the conference: Dr. Gintautas Akelaitis (Syntax in K. Jaunius’s “Grammar of the Lithuanian Language”), Dr. Kazimieras Garšva (The “Murmuring Vowels” of the Northwestern Panevėžys Dialect: From K. Jaunius to A. Girdenis), Prof. Habil. Dr. Axel Holvoet (The Lithuanian Dativus cum Infinitivo and Latvian Infinitival Relative Clauses), Habil. Dr. Saulius Ambrazas (Key Differences in Noun Formation in Lithuanian and Latvian), Audra Ivanauskienė (The Hierarchy of Noun Declension Types in M. Daukša’s Postil), Evija Lipartė (Meanings of the Form laukan and Possible Alternatives in Lithuanian Dialects), Irena Andriukaitienė (Some Features of Expressing Colour by Means of Comparative Phrases), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Juozas Karaciejus (On the Interpretation of Dialectal Evidence in the Wolfenbüttel Postil, Once Again), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Danguolė Mikulėnienė (On the Development of Stress in Adjectives with the Suffix -iškas, -a), Daiva Atkočaitytė (Stress Retraction in the Viduklė Subdialect), Vilija Lazauskaitė (On Stress Variants of Disyllabic o-Stem Nouns in the Southern Aukštaitian Dialects), Rima Bacevičiūtė (Features of Low Unshortened Vowels in the Lukšiai Subdialect), and Dr. Laima Grumadienė (International Words in the “Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary Written Lithuanian,” 1997). Guests from Estonia, Latvia, Poland, and Ukraine also attended the conference and presented papers. The conference abstracts were published in a separate volume.

On November 6, Institute researchers also took part in the international conferenceJonas Kazlauskas Day: Topics in Historical Grammar at Vilnius University. Prof. Habil. Dr. Axel Holvoet presented a paper entitled Some Features of the Passive Voice and Constructions with a Nominative Object in Lithuanian and Latvian.

On November 19, the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language under the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania held a seminar entitled Language Management: Tradition and the Present, marking the tenth anniversary of the restoration of the state language’s status. Papers were presented by Asta Ryklienė (Facts and Figures on the 1996–2005 Programme for the Use and Development of the State Language

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programme), Vilija Lazauskaitė (Prospects for the 1996–2005 Programme for the Use and Development of the State Language), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Danguolė Mikulėnienė (Lessons from a Decade of Language Revival), Dr. Rita Miliūnaitė (Temporary and Spreading Innovations), Jurga Girčienė (New Foreign Words: Variation and the Possibility of Choice), Dr. Pranas Kniūkšta (Names of Company Branches), and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Laima Grumadienė (Preventing Language Errors in Radio Speech).

On December 17, at the academic conference Sudovia in the Creation of the Lithuanian State held in Marijampolė, Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas presented a paper entitled Sudovia and Standard Lithuanian.

On December 18, at the Academy of Sciences, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Juozas Karaciejus presented a paper entitled Linguistic Features of Merkelis Petkevičius’s Catechism. The event marked the 400th anniversary of the book.

Study Visits and Business Trips

October 8, 1997–July 31, 1998 Institute doctoral student Evija Lipartė undertook a study visit at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Leipzig, hosted by Professor Susan Olsen.

February 1–July 5 Gina Kavaliūnaitė studied at Vrije University Amsterdam on a scholarship from the Dutch Ministry of Education. She attended lectures on old and contemporary Dutch literature and language and passed an examination in seventeenth-century Dutch.

April 1–June 1 Ramunė Vaskelaitė undertook a study visit at the University of Perugia with a scholarship awarded by the Government of Italy in a competition held by the Department of Science and Studies.

April 1–June 30 Vytautas Kardelis undertook a study visit at the University of Münster and lectured to Baltic studies students on “L itauische Dialektologie”.

April 1–June 30 Loreta Vaičekauskienė undertook a study visit at the University of Copenhagen on a scholarship intended to support doctoral students from the Baltic States.

April 16–17 Dr. Artūras Judžentis took part in the international symposium Balticum 98. Politik – Wirtschaft – Kultur, organized by the Institute of Baltic Studies at the University of Greifswald.

August 17–21 doctoral student Jolanta Gaivenytė attended the 15th Summer School of Terminology, held in Vienna. She attended lectures on the standardization of terms and the management of terminological work, and learned to use the “Multiterm” computerized terminology database.

October 1–10 Prof. Habil. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazas undertook a study visit in Italy at the invitation of the University of Parma, where he studied the research and publication of old Lithuanian written monuments.

November 2–7 Vidas Garlauskas worked in the library of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, where he became acquainted with the Teutonic archives.

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Other events

January 30 Institute staff were invited to the Lithuanian Folk Culture Centre. Its administration spoke about the Centre’s activities and the dialect recordings it holds, and showed them the archives. It was agreed to increase cooperation in the future in the study of the nation’s spiritual culture.

February 24 Professor Jochen Dieter Range gave a lecture at Vilnius University entitled Lithuanian Identity, Patriotism and Nationalism in a Multiethnic and Multicultural State. Institute staff also attended the lecture and discussed the topic with the professor.

February 25 Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas took part in a commemoration in Kaunas, organized by the Maironis Museum of Lithuanian Literature to mark the 95th anniversary of Viktoras Falkenhan’s birth. At the event, he spoke about the German scholar’s personality and his ties with Lithuania.

April 2 Publications written or compiled by Institute researchers in the second half of 1997 and the beginning of 1998 were presented in the hall of the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore.

April 30 Professor Habil. Dr. Informatics for the Humanities, a discussion held at the Academy of Sciences, where Academician Laimutis Telksnys delivered a paper and chaired the discussion, was also attended by and included contributions from Prof. Habil. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazas and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Danguolė Mikulėnienė.

May 4 Dr. Artūras Judžentis told Institute staff about the Institute of Baltic Studies at the University of Greifswald and the symposium held there, Symposium Balticum 98.

May 4 At the Vilnius language festival Lithuanian word, shine amber-bright upon our lips, Dr. Pranas Kniūkšta, Habil. Dr. Nijolė Sližienė, Dr. Elena Valiulytė, and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vytautas Vitkauskas spoke.

May 26 The Department of Language History and Dialectology organized a meeting of dialectologists from the Institute and higher education institutions to discuss the study of dialects and the collection of other language data. The meeting was chaired by Dr. Kazys Morkūnas.

September 18 At a doctoral seminar, Dr. Laimutis Bilkis, Dr. Birutė Kabašinskaitė, doctoral student Gina Kavaliūnaitė and Dr. Virginija Vasiliauskienė spoke about the summer academy for young Balticists organized at the University of Greifswald by Dr. Christiane Schiller and Prof. Dr. Jochen Dieter Range.

September 26 At the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, friends and colleagues of Dr. Kazimieras Eigminas gathered on the occasion of the publication of the book Homo sum. Words for Kazimieras Eigminas to remember the late scholar and the days they had spent together.

September 29 At the event That Sorrowful, Eternal Prayer for the Language, Dr. Pranas Kniūkšta and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vytautas Vitkauskas shared their memories of Professor Juozas Pikčilingis.

October 23 The book Homo sum. Words for Kazimieras Eigminas. was presented in the hall of the Rokiškis Library. At the event, attendees shared memories of the late scholar’s life and

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The work was shared by Kazimieras Eigminas’s sister, Dr. Antanas Balašaitis, assistant Vidmantas Kuprevičius, and Dr. Aloyzas Vidugiris.

November 4 At a meeting held in the Small Hall of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Prospects for Lithuanian Technical Terminology in the 21st Century was attended by Dr. Jonas Klimavičius and Associate Professor Dr. Danguolė Mikulėnienė.

November 17 A discussion, Unceasing Concern for Language, took place at the Writers’ Club. Presentations were given by Associate Professor Dr. Danguolė Mikulėnienė, chair of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language under the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, and Donatas Smalinskas, head of the Language Inspectorate of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language. Dr. Jonas Klimavičius and Associate Professor Dr. Vytautas Vitkauskas spoke in the discussions.

November 18 An exhibition, With the Program’s Emblem, opened at the library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, displaying publications produced with funding from the 1996–2005 State Language Use and Development Program. Associate Professor Dr. Danguolė Mikulėnienė and the Institute’s director, Professor Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas, spoke at the opening.

November 18 The 10th anniversary of the restoration of the status of the state language was commemorated with a gala evening at the Lithuanian Artists’ Palace. Associate Professor Dr. Danguolė Mikulėnienė, chair of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language under the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, spoke at the event.

December 2–4 The publishing house of the Institute of the Lithuanian Language presented its latest publications at a book fair held at the Lithuanian Technical Library. The public was introduced to the specifics of the publishing house’s work—editing complex texts in Lithuanian and foreign languages (English, German, Russian, Polish, Latvian, Czech, etc.), as well as computer fonts created for dialectology and onomastics and for editions of early Lithuanian writings.

Institute Guests

February 13 Professor Guido Michelini gave a lecture at the Institute entitled The Relationship of Mažvydas’s Hymns to Their German Source.

February 25 In the hall of the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, the Federal Republic of Germany’s cultural attaché in Lithuania, Mr. Carsten Rüpke, and Professor Jochen Dieter Range, director of the Institute of Baltic Studies at the University of Ernst Moritz Arndt in Greifswald, Germany, formally presented the Institute of the Lithuanian Language with a valuable gift: the critical Weimar edition of Martin Luther’s works (twelve volumes of the German Bible): D. Martin Luthers Werke. Kritische Gesamtausgabe (Weimarer Ausgabe). Abt. III: Die deutsche Bibel. Bd. 1–12. This Bible is a source for many early Lithuanian writings and is indispensable for research into the early Lithuanian language, literature, and culture. Until then, Lithuania had not possessed a complete set of this Bible edition. The gift consists of 15 large-format books and is worth 2,232 German marks. The Institute’s director, Professor Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas, and the chair of the Council, Professor Habil. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazas, warmly thanked the guests.

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On October 6, Professor Antanas Kimas visited the Institute.

From October 21 to 24, Professors Anatolij Nepokupnyj from Ukraine and Wojciech Smoczyński from Poland visited the Institute. The guests were interested in the Institute’s research work and latest publications, and delivered papers at the conference Lithuanian Language: Researchers and Research.

From October 22 to 23, the Institute was visited by Estonian linguist Dr. Lembit Vaba, who is currently working at the University of Tampere in Finland. At a conference organized by the Institute and the Pedagogical University, he delivered a paper entitled On the Etymologies of Kazimieras Jaunius’s Baltic-Finnic Languages (Par Kazimiera Jauna Baltijas somu valodu etimoloģijām). Papers at the conference were also delivered by guests from Latvia Ilga Jansone, Lidija Leikuma, Everita Milčonoka and Anna Stafecka.

On December 7, Prof. Dr. Jochen Dieter Range visited the Institute’s Directorate. They discussed opportunities and prospects for scientific cooperation.

People and Dates

On January 1, Dr. Kazimieras Pakalka, a distinguished researcher of K. Sirvydas’s dictionaries, lexicographer, and longtime Institute employee, turned 70. Colleagues marked his jubilee on January 10 at an afternoon gathering organized by the Dictionary Department.

On January 9, Dr. Jonas Paulauskas, a tireless lexicographer and distinguished researcher of Lithuanian phraseology, turned 75. On behalf of the Institute’s staff, Director Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas congratulated the jubilarian.

On February 9, colleagues and friends congratulated lexicographer Dr. Klementina Birutė Vosylė on her 60th birthday at the Dictionary Department.

April 21 Institute doctoral student Laimutis Bilkis defended his doctoral dissertation, “Lithuanian Suffixal Helonyms,” at a public meeting of the joint doctoral committee of LKI and VDU. The dissertation was in the humanities, philology, Baltic languages (H 591). Doctoral committee: chair and supervisor – Prof. habil. Dr. Aleksandras Vanagas (1993–1995), Habil. Dr. Vitalija Maciejauskienė (LKI, humanities, philology, Baltic languages, H 591); members – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Laimute Balode (Latvian Language Institute, University of Helsinki, humanities, philology, Baltic languages, H 591), Habil. Dr. Simas Karaliūnas (VDU, humanities, philology, Baltic languages, H 591), Prof. habil. Dr. Antanas Pakerys (VPU, humanities, philology, Lithuanian language, H 592), Prof. habil. Dr. Zigmas Zinkevičius (Ministry of Education and Science, humanities, philology, Baltic languages, H 591). Opponents: Habil. Dr. Saulius Ambrazas (LKI, humanities, philology, Baltic languages, H 591), Prof. Dr. Vincentas Drotvinas (VPU, humanities, Lithuanian language, H 592).

Since 1998, Laimutis Bilkis has been a member of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences.

On July 4, the President of the Republic of Lithuania awarded Prof. Habil. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazas the Order of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas, Fourth Class.

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On July 6, Dr. Klementina Vosytė was awarded the King Mindaugas Medal by decision of the Ministry of Culture for her scholarly and cultural work.

On September 29, at St. John’s Church, the title of honorary doctor of Vilnius University was solemnly conferred on the distinguished German Baltist, Prof. Dr. Friedrich Scholz. Scholars from the Institute also attended the ceremony.

On November 4, the Lithuanian National Foundation (USA) announced that the 1998 Evelina Kolupailaitė Masiokienė scholarship had been awarded to doctoral student Edmundas Trumpa.

On November 23, on behalf of the Institute, Director Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas congratulated Council member, literary scholar Prof. Habil. Dr. Vytautas Kubilius on his 70th birthday.

On November 24, Marija Razmukaitė, a research fellow in the Department of Onomastics, Marija Razmukaitė, defended her dissertation externally at a public meeting of the joint LKI and VDU doctoral committee. The dissertation was entitled Lithuanian Suffixal Oikonyms (humanities, philology, onomastics, H 370). Doctoral committee: chair and supervisor—Habil. Dr. Simas Karaliūnas (VDU, humanities, philology, onomastics, H 370); members—Habil. Dr. Vitalija Maciejauskienė (LKI, humanities, philology, onomastics, H 370), Habil. Dr. Saulius Ambrazas (LKI, humanities, philology, Baltic languages, H 591), Prof. Dr. Vincentas Drotvinas (VPU, humanities, philology, Lithuanian language, H 592), Associate Prof. Dr. Alvydas Butkus (VDU, humanities, philology, onomastics, H 370). Opponents: Prof. Habil. Dr. Zigmas Zinkevičius (LKI, humanities, philology, Baltic languages, H 591), Associate Prof. Dr. Grasilda Blažienė (VPU, humanities, philology, onomastics, H 370).

On December 7, by Order No. 387 of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania, Dr. Aloyzas Vidugiris was awarded a state scholarship of the highest degree for 1999 and 2000.

On December 25, Dr. Aloyzas Vidugiris turned 70. His milestone birthday was marked in the Department of Language History and Dialectology on December 29. Colleagues, friends, and members of the Language Society congratulated the esteemed jubilarian.

Irena Andriukaitienė

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