Lietuvių kalbos instituto kronika. 1997

LIETUVIŲ KALBOS INSTITUTO KRONIKA 1997 Structure From January 2, 1997, the Institute was headed by its director, Prof. habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas. His deputies were Dr. Kazys Morkūnas (for research) and Kęstutis Jurkūnas (for general affairs). The scientific secretary was Dr. Artūras Judžentis. The Institute had six departments: the Dictionary Department (head: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vytautas Vitkauskas), the Grammar Department (head: Prof. habil. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazas), the Onomastics Department (head: Habil. Dr. Vitalija Maciejauskienė), the Terminology Department (head: Dr. Kazys Gaivenis), the Department of Language History and Dialectology (head: Dr. Kazys Morkūnas), and the Language Culture Department (head: Dr. Pranas Kniūkšta). The Publishing Group was also active (head: Audronė Stanislovaitienė). At the end of 1997, the Institute had 117 employees, including 86 research staff and 31 researchers (2 habilitated doctors who were professors, 5 habilitated doctors, 5 doctors who were associate professors, and 19 doctors). From September 15, Jolanta Gaivenytė, Asta Leskauskaitė, Loreta Vaičiulytė, Rolandas Mikulskas, Sigutė Rackevičienė and Dana Vainauskienė were admitted to the joint doctoral program of the Institute and Vytautas Magnus University. Main Areas of Activity The following main areas of the Institute’s activity were established by Resolution No. 399 of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, dated 1995 03 21, On the List of State Research Institutes: research into Lithuanian lexicology and lexicography, grammatical structure, dialects, and onomastics; development of terminology; research into the history of the Lithuanian language and language contacts, as well as studies of the functioning of contemporary Lithuanian in society and its standardization. At the end of 1997, the Institute’s research work was evaluated by an expert commission established by the Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education at the request of the Ministry of Education and Science (head: Prof. habil. Dr. Romualdas Apanavičius). The commission rated the Institute’s work favorably in many respects and recommended that it expand fundamental research, publish more articles in foreign scholarly journals, and integrate more fully into the global research community. Researchers’ meetings At the Institute staff general meeting on January 21, the report by scientific secretary Artūras Judžentis on the Institute’s research work in the past year and plans for the new year was heard, and the report’s claims were discussed. Ins- 261 titute research work and plans for the new year were discussed. At the Institute researchers’ meeting held on October 6, the composition of the Council was changed slightly: habil. dr. Vitalija Maciejauskienė, who had declined to continue serving on it, was replaced by habil. dr. Simas Karaliūnas. At the meeting on November 11, participants met with members of the expert group that had evaluated the Institute’s research activities: Prof. habil. dr. Romualdas Apanavičius, Prof. habil. dr. Juozas Kulis, and Assoc. Prof. dr. Alfredas Bumblauskas. They discussed criteria for evaluating the humanities and the Institute’s research work in recent years. Key decisions of the Institute Council At the Council meeting on February 18, the report on the Institute’s research activities in 1996 and plans for 1997 were discussed; a new Attestation Commission was formed (Saulius Ambrazas, Angelė Kaulakienė, Pranas Kniūkšta, Marytė Razmukaitė, Nijolė Sližienė, Zita Šimėnaitė, Aloyzas Vidugiris); issue 69 of Kalbos kultūros was approved for publication; a scientific cooperation agreement with the Faculty of Philology of Saint Petersburg State University was approved; and a draft scientific cooperation agreement with the Lithuanian Linguistics and Lithuanian Language departments of Vilnius Pedagogical University was considered. On February 28, the draft regulations on the Institute’s doctoral studies and the awarding of academic degrees were considered; a scientific cooperation agreement with the Department of Lithuanian Language and the Center for Ethnoculture and Dialectology of the Faculty of Philology of Šiauliai Pedagogical Institute was approved; staff attestation results were approved; Dr. Kazys Garšva was instructed to submit his work Lietuvos pakraščių šnektos for consideration by the Department of the History of Language and Dialectology. On May 15, the following publications were approved for printing: Aloyzas Vidugiris. Zietelos šnektos žodynas; Simas Karaliūnas. Kalba ir visuomenė; Kalbos patarimų informacinis biuletenis I; Regina Sedekerskytė, Adelė Ubeikaitė. Lietuvių kalbotyra (1977–1980). Literatūros rodyklė. The direction chosen by the Dictionary Department for further lexicographic work and the main principles of this work set out in the prospectus were approved. A proposal to publish a new (computerized and typeset) version of the academic Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language, incorporating necessary additions and corrections, was approved. A draft scientific cooperation agreement with the Faculty of Philology of Vilnius University was considered. The decisions of the Attestation Commission were approved, and it was decided to grant doctoral students 56 calendar days of regular paid leave each year. On June 18, Adelė Valeckienė’s Lietuvių kalbos funkcinė gramatika and Sapūno – Šulco gramatika were approved for printing; staff attestation results were approved; procedures for the election and reelection of heads of Institute departments were established; and a commission for admitting doctoral students to the Institute in 1997 was formed. 262 At the meeting on September 17, the general sections of the doctoral study programs were approved; a committee was formed for the competition for heads of the Institute’s divisions (announced in Mokslo Lietuvoje, 1997-09-10, No. 15); it was decided to convene a meeting of researchers to adjust the composition of the Council. Prof. Habil. Dr. Albertas Rosinas, author of a series of monographs on pronouns in Baltic languages, was nominated for the Lithuanian Science Prize; Assoc. Prof. Dr. Danguolė Mikulėnienė was nominated for the board of the Lithuanian State Science and Studies Foundation; doctoral student Vidmantas Kuprevičius was nominated for Evelinos Masiokienės-Kolupailaitės one-time scholarship. Dr. Danutės Marijos Liutkevičienės report on her business trip to Belgium was approved; it was decided to allow doctoral student Laimučiui Bilkui to complete writing his dissertation by March 31, 1998, without changing his status. On October 31, the division heads were elected (Grammar Division — Prof. Habil. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazas; Language Culture Division — Dr. Pranas Kniūkšta; Terminology Division — Dr. Kazys Gaivenis; Dictionaries Division — Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vytautas Vitkauskas); the composition of the doctoral committees for doctoral students Jolantos Gaivenytės, Astos Leskauskaitės, Rolando Mikulsko, Loretos Vaičiulytės ir Danos Vainauskienės was approved; the new composition of the joint LKI and VDU doctoral and habilitation commission was approved (Vytautas Ambrazas, Artūras Judžentis, Simas Karaliūnas, Albertas Rosinas, Algirdas Sabaliauskas, Nijolė Sližienė, Zigmas Zinkevičius); the following were approved for publication: volume 38 of Lietuvių kalbotyros klausimų, issue 4 of Terminologijos, and parts 2 and 3 of Kalbos patarimų informacinio biuletenio; the report of assistant Mildos Lučinskienės on her participation in the international seminar Teksto įvairovė viduramžių tekstuose in Sofia was heard and approved; it was decided to allow doctoral student Vidmantui Kuprevičiui to complete writing his dissertation by March 31, 1998, without changing his status. On December 12, the following were approved for publication: Elena Valiulytė’s monograph Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos sintaksiniai sinonimai, Danguolė Mikulėnienė and Kazys Morkūnas’s Dieveniškių šnektos tekstai, and issue 70 of Kalbos kultūros; it was decided to prepare and publish the collected writings of Jonas Kruopas and a booklet about the Institute of the Lithuanian Language. The results of staff attestation were approved, as were the composition of the doctoral committee for doctoral student Sigita Racevičienė and the extension of the scientific cooperation agreement with the A. Potebnia Institute of Linguistics of Ukraine. It was decided to submit Laimučio Bilkio publications on the topic Lietuvių helonimų tyrimai to the competition for young researchers’ scientific works. Habil. Dr. Nijolė Sližienė was elected deputy chair of the Institute Council. Questions concerning awards for Institute staff were also discussed at the meeting, and an awards allocation committee was formed. Scientific Expeditions From July 8 to 15, in the environs of Mosėdis, Skuodas District, words for the dialect dictionary were collected, and answers to the questionnaire on dialects and their interaction were recorded— 263 by Vita Pranskūnaitė (expedition leader), Ona Aleknavičienė, Asta Leskauskaitė, Ri̇čardas Petkevičius ir Edmundas Trumpa. In July, several dozen Lithuanian-language students from Vilnius Pedagogical University also took part in the dialectological expeditions operating in the environs of Gubava and Kazitiškis, Ignalina District (leader Laima Grumadienė), and in the environs of Eržvilkas, Raseiniai District (leader Daiva Atkočaitytė). The sound archives of the Division of Language History and Dialectology were supplemented with texts recorded on magnetic tape in other localities as well: in Pelesa (Belarus; Edmundas Trumpa), Lukšiai (Šakiai District; Rima Bacevičiūtė), Linkmenys (Ignalina District; Vytautas Kardelis), Žiobiškis (Rokiškis District; Artūras Judžentis), Kučiūnai (Lazdijai District; Asta Leskauskaitė), and Skardupiai (Marijampolė District; Ona Aleknavičienė). Conferences, seminars On February 19, at a seminar held in the hall of the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Prof. Habil. Dr. Jonas Palionis shared impressions from his trip to Münster, while Habil. Dr. Simas Karaliūnas spoke about Baltic studies in Finland. On February 20, at the scientific conference organized by the Latvian Language Institute (Riga), Theory and Practice of Lexicography (Leksikogrāfijas teorija un prakse), dedicated to the 124th anniversary of the birth of Academician Jānis Endzelīns, reports were delivered by Dr. Kazimieras Garšva (Lithuanianisms in the Latvian Language) and Vidmantas Kuprevičius (On the Thematic Groups of a Mid-19th-Century Manuscript Lithuanian Eastern Aukštaitian–Polish Dictionary (RtŽ) by an Unknown Author). On April 14–18, doctoral student Jolanta Gel umbeckaitė delivered a paper at the Ninth International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics (Ninth International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics), held in Madrid, Spain, on the relationship between prepositional and case constructions in the Vulgate and its Lithuanian translation by Jonas Bretkūnas (Latin Vulgate and the Translation into Old Lithuanian by Jonas Bretkūnas (J. Bretke). On the Relation of Prepositional Phrases with Cases). On April 28, at a conference organized by the Theatre History and Traditions Society at the Palace of Art Workers, Theatre Issues, Questions of National Dramaturgy, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vytautas Vitkauskas presented a paper entitled On the Language of Our Stage. On May 9, at the First Scientific Conference of Lithuanian Studies Students in Lithuania organized by Vilnius University, Asta Leskauskaitė delivered a paper (The Vocalism of the Kučiūnai Dialect). On May 13, at the Mažvydas Day organized by the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Professor Algirdas Sabaliauskas presented a paper entitled Martynas Mažvydas in Lithuanian Linguistics. 264 On May 28, Professor Wojciech Smoczyński of the University of Kraków visited the Department of Baltic Philology at Vilnius University. In the Kazimieras Būga Auditorium, the guest gave a lecture entitled Problems of Prussian Paleography, attended by a considerable number of Institute staff and doctoral students. On May 30, a meeting of dialectologists was convened in the Institute’s Department of the History of the Lithuanian Language and Dialectology. In addition to Institute staff, participants included Assoc. Prof. Dr. Janina Švambarytė from Šiauliai, Dr. Zofija Babickienė from Vilnius University, Rita Urnėžiūtė, deputy editor-in-chief of Gimtoji kalba, and others. The meeting considered current issues concerning methods for collecting dialect material, coordinating work, and exchanging information. The meeting was chaired by Dr. Kazys Morkūnas. On June 4, at the international conference Problems of the Language of Technical Sciences, organized by the Department of Lithuanian Language of the Institute of Humanities at Kaunas University of Technology and the Institute’s Department of Terminology, papers were presented by Stasys Keinys (On Understanding Terminology Work), Kazimieras Gaivenis and Angelė Kaulakienė (Linguistic and Subject-Matter Evaluation of Technical Terminology), Nijolė Banevičienė (Deficiencies in the Definitions of Technical Terminology Standards), Jolanta Gaivenytė (A Comparison of Lithuanian and English Four-Word Technical Term Structures), and Albina Auksoriūtė (Some Cases of Synonymy in the Latest Dictionaries of Computer Terminology). Guests from the Institute of the Latvian Language also attended the conference and presented papers. On June 10, at the Academy of Sciences, Habil. Dr. Simas Karaliūnas outlined a new hypothesis regarding the origin of the name Lithuania. Professor Algirdas Sabaliauskas chaired the discussion. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Romas Batūra, Dr. Artūras Dubonis, Prof. Habil. Dr. Edvardas Gudavičius, and other historians and linguists took part in the discussion. On June 17, at the morning session of the 17th convention of the Lithuanian Catholic Academy of Sciences, chaired by Professor Birutė Ciplijauskaitė and Zigmas Zinkevičius, Juozas Karaciejus presented a paper (An Attempt to Standardize the Lithuanian Written Language in the 16th Century); at the afternoon session, chaired by Doctors Antanė Kučinskaitė and Klementina Vosylūtė, papers were presented by Ona Aleknavičienė (On the Question of the Authorship of the Pericopes in Jonas Bretkūnas’s Postil), Jolanta Gelumbekaitė (Latin Constructions in Jonas Bretkūnas’s Translation of the Gospel According to Luke), and Milda Lučinskienė (A Comparison of the 1647 and 1705 Editions of Jonas Jaknavičius’s Gospels). On July 1 and 2, the conference of the World Community of Lithuanian Studies, Lithuanian Studies in the World Today: Work and Problems, was held at Vilnius Pedagogical Institute. Institute researchers also participated and spoke in the discussions. On August 20–23, Institute researchers attended the linguistics section’s presentations and participated in discussions at the Second Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe, Values and Norms in a Changing Society, organized by Vilnius University and the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences (Prof. Algirdas Sabaliauskas was a member of its program committee). 265 On September 5–8, doctoral student Jolanta Gelumbeckaitė presented a paper on the language of Saint Jerome’s Latin writings at the Fifth International Congress on Vulgar and Late Latin (V Internationaler Kongreß über Vulgär- und Spätlatein), held in Heidelberg (St. Jerome: Christian or Ciceronian Latin? Evidence from the Syntax of his Writings). On September 22–25, Vytautas Zinkevičius participated in the Fifth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, organized by the European Speech Communication Association (European Speech Communication Association, ESCO) (5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology). At the conference, a paper he had prepared with his Danish colleagues Niels Ole Bernsen, Hans Dybkjær, and Laila Dybkjær on aspects of dialogue structure was presented (Generality and Transferability. Two Issues in Putting a Dialog Evaluation Tool into Practical Use). The conference was held on the island of Rhodes, Greece. On October 3, the Institute’s Department of Language Culture and the University’s Department of Lithuanian Language organized a Jonas Jablonskis conference at the Faculty of Philology of Vilnius University, Language Culture: Tradition and the Present. Thirteen papers were delivered in three sessions, chaired by Pranas Kniūkšta and Asta Kupčinskaitė, Aldona Paulauskienė and Loreta Vaicekauskienė, and Vitas Labutis and Jurga Girčienė. Institute staff who delivered papers, answered questions, and took part in discussions were Jurga Girčienė (A New Approach to New Borrowings), Pranas Kniūkšta (National, National, State, and of the State), Asta Kupčinskaitė (Corpus Linguistics and/or Computerized Research into Authentic Language), Danguolė Mikulėnienė (Administrative Oversight of Correct Usage of the State Language), Rita Miliūnaitė (From the Old to the New Edition of the Practical Language Guide), Loreta Vaicekauskienė (Colloquial Language Is Still Waiting Its Turn), and Rasuolė Vladarskienė (Syntactic Expression of Precision in the Language of State Documents). Papers were also delivered at the conference by scholars from Vilnius University, Vilnius Pedagogical University, Šiauliai University, Kaunas Medical Academy, and the Language Inspectorate. It was decided that the next Jonas Jablonskis conference, to be held the following year, would discuss new language phenomena and their evaluation. On October 7–9, the Institute, together with Vilnius University and the International Association for Baltic Studies, organized the Eighth International Congress of Balticists, Baltic Languages in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. The congress was devoted to commemorating the 450th anniversary of the first Lithuanian book, Martynas Mažvydas’s Catechism. The Institute’s director, Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas (vice-chair), Prof. Habil. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazas, and Habil. Dr. Simas Karaliūnas served on the congress’s organizing committee (chair: Prof. Habil. Dr. Bonifacas Stundžia). Five sections operated at the congress: written language; lexicology and lexicography; etymology and onomastics; morphology and syntax; and phonetics, phonology, and accentology. From the Institute, Vytautas Ambrazas chaired the Morphology and Syntax section, together with Audronė Kaukienė, and Simas Karaliūnas chaired the Etymo- 266 logy and Onomastics section, together with Pietro Umberto Dini. Two plenary sessions were held. More than seventy papers were delivered in total. Scholars came to the congress from twelve foreign countries: Latvia, Poland, Germany, Russia, Italy, the USA, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Norway, Finland, Estonia, and Ukraine. Thirteen Institute staff members delivered papers at the congress (twelve papers): Ona Aleknavičienė (The Authorship of the Pericopes in J. Bretkūnas’s “Postil”), Saulius Ambrazas and Vytautas Zinkevičius (A Historical Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language and the Computerization of Early Writings), Vytautas Ambrazas (Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Translated Lithuanian Texts as Sources for Historical Syntax), Nijolė Čepienė (Germanisms in Jonas Bretkūnas’s Bible), Kazimieras Garšva (The Development of the Phonetics of the Linkuva Dialect), Jolanta Gelumbeckaitė (Postpositional Locatives in J. Bretkūnas’s Translation of the “Gospel According to Luke”), Simas Karaliūnas (The Structure and Origin of the Ethnonym Jotvingis), Gina Kavaliūnaitė (The Influence of the Dutch Source on Samuel Bogusław Chyliński’s Translation of the New Testament), Vilija Lazauskaitė (Root Stress in u-Stem Adjectives and Their Abstracts with the Suffix -umas), Evija Lipartė (On the Translation of German Particle Verbs in G. Mancelis’s Works), Milda Lučinskienė (Some Linguistic Differences between J. Jaknavičius’s 1647 and 1705 “Evangelie polskie y litewskie”), and Danguolė Mikulėnienė (On Circumflex Metatony in Compound Words). A presentation of new books on Baltic studies and an excursion to literary sites in Anykščiai were arranged for congress participants. At the international conference organized by the universities of Warsaw and Vilnius in Warsaw on October 16–18, Sociolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Conditions of the Linguistic Situation in Vilnius and the Vilnius Region (Socjo- i psycholingwistyczne uwarunkowania sytuacji językowej w Wilnie i na Wileńszczyźnie), papers were delivered by Laima Grumadienė (Interaction of Lithuanian and Slavic Languages in Southeastern Lithuania) and Edmundas Trumpa (Some Features of the Lithuanian Dialect of Pelesa – Niektóre właściwości gwary litewskiej we wsi Pelesa). The program also included papers by Alvyzas Vidugiris (From the History of Research on Lithuanian Dialects in the Vilnius Region) and Nijolė Tuomienė (Some Features of the Lithuanian Dialect of Ramaškoniai Village). On October 31, doctoral student Ona Aleknavičienė delivered a paper, The Symbolic Conception of the Human Being in Jonas Bretkūnas’s Postil, at the conference The Symbolic Conception of the Human Being in Early Lithuanian Culture, organized by the Institute of Culture and Art. On November 20, at the initiative of young staff members of the Institute’s Department of Language History and Dialectology, the Conference of Young Linguists was organized. The conference organizing committee comprised Daiva Atkočaitytė, Vilija Lazauskaitė, Asta Leskauskaitė, and Edmundas Trumpa. Twelve papers were delivered in three sessions, nine of them by Institute staff: Daiva Atkočaitytė (Secondary Stresses in the Southern Žemaitian Raseiniai Dialects), Albina Auksoriūtė (The Terminological Legacy of Laurynas Ivinskis), Laimutis Bilkis (On Pre-Radical u· Fronting Phenomena in Lithuanian Helonymy), Vidas Garliauskas (Lithuanian Oikonym Forms in Sixteenth- to Nineteenth-Century Historical Sources. Lithuanian Words and Phrases in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Manuscripts), and Vilija Lazauskaitė (On the Presentation of Dzūkian Features in “Dabartinės lietu-). 267 in the Lithuanian Language Dictionary”), Asta Leskauskaitė’s (On the system of vowel phonemes in the Kučiūnai subdialect), Vilija Sakalauskienė’s (The semantics of authority and its expression in Lithuanian), Edmundas Trumpa’s (Some tendencies in the development of Dzūkian features in the Pelesa subdialect), and Loreta Vaičiulytė’s (A syntactic-semantic characterization of Lithuanian two-valency adjectives). Reports were also given by guests: Romualdas Apanavičius (The primary semantic meaning of the root *tuer-2) from Vilnius University, Asta Kazlauskienė (The duration of vowels in open and closed endings in the southern Western Aukštaitian dialect) from Vytautas Magnus University, and Everita Milčonoka (Morphological variants of nouns in G. Mancelis’s “Lettische postill” (1654)) from the Institute of Latvian Language (Riga). The conference papers’ abstracts were published in a separate volume (which also included summaries of four papers not presented at the conference). On December 11–12, at the discussions organized in Kretinga by the Lithuanian Language Society to commemorate the 95th anniversary of Professor Antanas Salys’s birth, entitled Lithuanian Language Research and the Present, Associate Professor Vytautas Vitkauskas delivered a paper entitled Antanas Salys’s Principles for Creating and Strengthening the Standard Language. Doctoral Seminars On March 4, in the Department of the History of Language and Dialectology, Edmundas Trumpa presented to Institute staff the Institute’s first computer CD-ROM, Lithuanian Dialects. Pelesa. On May 22, Jolanta Gelumbeckaitė spoke about the 9th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics held in Madrid, where she had presented a paper. On June 19, Dr. Giedrius Subačius spoke about Lithuanian studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. On September 19, Danutė Liutkevičienė and Ignas Urbonas spoke about ELSNET’s Fifth European Summer School, devoted to issues in computational linguistics (ELSNET’s Fifth European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication Lexicon Development for Language and Speech Processing), held in July of that year in Belgium at the University of Leuven. On October 20, Milda Lučinskienė spoke about the international seminar Text Variety in the Witnesses of Medieval Texts (Text Variety in the Witnesses of Medieval Texts), held on September 21–23 in Sofia; Vytautas Zinkevičius spoke about the Fifth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (European Speech Communication Association, ESCO), organized by the European Speech Communication Association and held on September 21–24 on the Greek island of Rhodes (5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology); and Edmundas Trumpa spoke about the international conference organized by the Universities of Warsaw and Vilnius, Sociolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Aspects of the Language Situation in Vilnius and Vil- 268 conditions in the Vilnius region (Socio- i psycholingwistyczne uwarunkowania sytuacji jęzkowej w Wilnie i na Wileńszczyźnie), held in Warsaw on October 16–18. On December 4, Dr. Nijolė Čepienė spoke about the acts of Lithuania Minor in the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin, while Albina Auksoriūtė spoke about Laurynas Ivinskis’s manuscripts in the libraries of Kraków. Internships and business trips From April 8 to June 30, Habil. Dr. Saulius Ambrazas undertook an internship in the Department of Baltic Studies at Stockholm University, headed by Prof. Baiba Metuzale-Kangere. At Stockholm University and the Royal Library, he studied literature relevant to his research and wrote the article The derivative structure of substantives in Lithuanian and Latvian from the diachronic point of view. The internship was supported by the Swedish Institute. From July 14 to 24, Dr. Danutė Marija Liutkevičienė participated in the Fifth ELSNET European Summer School, devoted to issues in computational linguistics (ELSNET’s Fifth European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication „Lexicon Development for Language and Speech Processing“), held at the University of Leuven in Belgium. The main topics addressed at the school were the formalization and presentation of lexical data, the internal structure of the lexicon, automatic speech recognition, the relationship between syntax and the lexicon, and machine translation problems. She attended lectures, shared her expertise, and established contacts with colleagues from other countries. In August and September, Habil. Dr. Simas Karaliūnas undertook an internship at Jagiellonian University in Kraków with a scholarship from Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego – Fundacja popierania nauki. In the university library, he collected material for planned research topics and studied scholarly literature. From October 8, the Institute’s doctoral student Evija Lipartė undertook an internship at the University of Leipzig. On September 21–23, doctoral student Milda Lučinskienė participated in the international seminar Text Variety in the Witnesses of Medieval Texts (Text Variety in the Witnesses of Medieval Texts), organized in Sofia by the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She delivered a paper to the seminar audience entitled Computerisation of Old Lithuanian Writings of the 16th–17th Centuries (Computerisation of the Old 16th–17th Centuries Lithuanian Scripts), in which she presented the work of the Institute’s group for computerizing old writings. The papers presented at the seminar will be published in a separate volume. From November 16 to 22, Dr. Nijolė Čepienė collected personal names and place names from the acts of Lithuania Minor at the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin, Germany, and examined the specialized literature held there. 269 On November 24–30, the Institute’s doctoral student Albina Aukšoriūtė visited the branch of the Institute of Slavic Studies in Kraków. At the Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences, she studied Laurynas Ivinskis’s manuscripts (Prigimt umenę, a Polish–Lithuanian dictionary, and tables of Lithuanian grammar). Other events On May 21, staff of the Language Culture Department invited their colleagues to the presentation of the 69th issue of Kalbos kultūra. At the convivial gathering, the new issue was described by its responsible editor, Dr. Pranas Kniūkšta, and its compiler and editor, Albina Bataitytė. On July 3, a presentation was held of the Institute’s publications released in the first half of 1997. The following publications were presented: Lithuanian grammar. Ed. by Vytautas Ambrazas; Laima Grumadienė, Vida Žilinskienė. A Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary Written Lithuanian; Ona Vaičiulytė-Romančuk. Proper Names in the Dialect of the Gervėčiai Area: Surnames and Microtoponyms. Executive editor Elena Valiulytė; Questions in Lithuanian Linguistics 37. Problems of Lexicography and Lexicology / Volume compiled by Irena Erm anytė, Aldona Kalunienė (executive secretary), Gertrūda Naktinienė, Vytautas Vitkauskas; Language Culture 69. Executive editor Pranas Kniūkšta; Terminology 3. Executive editor Kazys Gaivenis; Research Programme on Lithuanian Dialects and Their Interaction: Sociolinguistics. Compiled by Valerijus Čekmonas, Laima Grumadienė. Executive editor Kazys Morkūnas. The forthcoming publications were described by the head of the Publishing Group, Audronė Stanislovaitienė. The event was hosted by the Institute’s director, Algirdas Sabaliauskas. From October 1 to 4, the Institute’s publishing house participated in a book fair organized by the Lithuanian Technical Library. The publishing house’s manager, Audronė Stanislovaitienė, was responsible for properly presenting the Institute’s books at the fair. A promotional brochure for the publishing house was prepared, and information about it was printed in the fair catalogue. Institute guests On March 4, Algirdas K. Vaičiūnas, president of the Lithuanian-Canadian Community, visited the Institute. The guest was welcomed by the Institute’s director, Algirdas Sabaliauskas. On April 23, Professor Guido Michelini visited the Institute. In the LLTI hall, he gave a lecture on the relationship between Martynas Mažvydas’s hymns and their originals, and on prospects for further research into the language of his writings. On July 3 and December 8–10, Professor Anatolij Nepokapnyj from the A. Potebnia Institute of Linguistics of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences visited the Institute. The guest took an interest in the Institute’s latest publications, and matters concerning further academic cooperation between the two institutions were discussed. 270 On August 19, a postgraduate student from the Faculty of Philology of Saint Petersburg State University, Aleksej Andronov, visited the Institute. The guest was interested in the work being carried out by the Institute’s researchers and in its latest publications. On September 3 and 4, Dr. Björn Wiemer, a researcher at the University of Konstanz, visited the Institute. The guest was interested in the work being carried out at the Institute and in its latest publications. On September 4, Endre Bojtár, a Hungarian-born philologist, head of the Central and Eastern Europe Division of the Literary Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and translator of Lithuanian literature, visited the Institute with his wife. The guest met with Algirdas Sabaliauskas, Director of the Institute, and Leonardas Sauka, Director of the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore. From September 15 to 19, Professor Ewa Rzetelska-Feleszko from the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw undertook a research visit at the Institute. The guest, from the Onomastics Department, gathered material from its card catalogue for her research and consulted with specialists in the department. On September 17, Algirdas Matulionis, an adviser to the President, visited the Institute. The guest toured the construction site of the Institute’s new building, which will house Lithuanian studies collections, and asked about the Institute’s work and concerns. On October 2 and 6, Professor Jochen Dieter Range, head of the Institute of Baltic Studies at the University of Greifswald, visited the Institute. The guest met with the Institute’s management and researchers from the Department of Language History and Dialectology. Specific plans for 1998 were discussed under the signed scientific cooperation agreement between the Institute and the University: to hold a spring seminar on creating a computerized database of linguistic data from old written sources; to exchange researchers studying the language of old Lithuanian writings; to organize an international conference in 2002, on the occasion of the anniversary of Jono Bretkūnas’s death, on the language and culture of Lithuania Minor in the 16th–17th centuries; and to cooperate in collecting onomastic material from Lithuania Minor. On October 2, the Swiss linguist Bernhard Wälchli, a student of Professor J. P. Loche rio, visited the Institute. The linguist is particularly interested in the relationship between Latvian and Livonian. His master’s thesis is devoted to this problem. He speaks Lithuanian beautifully. On October 6, the linguists Alessandro Parenti (Florence), Nikolai Mikhailov (Pisa), and Aleksej Andronov (Saint Petersburg) visited the Institute. Algirdas Sabaliauskas and Kazys Morkūnas discussed matters concerning Baltic studies with the guests. On October 9, Pietro Umberto Dini, a linguist from Italy currently undertaking a research visit with Professor W. P. Schmid in Germany, visited the Institute. He is one of the publishers of the periodical linguistics journal Res Balticae. The guest was interested in the Institute’s latest publications and prospects for further cooperation. On October 10, Džoja Edelman, a linguist from Moscow, visited the Institute. Danguolė Mikulėnienė, Kazys Morkūnas, and Algirdas Sabaliauskas met with the guest. She was presented with the Institute’s latest publications. 271 On October 13, Professor Wojciech Smoczyński of the University of Kraków visited the Institute. The guest was interested in the Institute’s scholarly work and its latest publications. On October 22, Professor Reiner Eckert from Germany visited the Institute. On October 21, the Senate of Vilnius University had awarded him the title of Honorary Doctor. At the Institute, the guest discussed questions of Indo-European studies, particularly Baltic studies, in Germany and Lithuania, and was presented with the Institute’s latest publications. On October 28, Professor Antanas Klimas of the University of Rochester visited the Institute. He was presented with the Institute’s latest publications. The professor had spent the whole month in Lithuania and had participated in the International Congress of Balticists. On November 11, the head of the expert group that had evaluated the Institute’s scholarly activities, Prof. Habil. Dr. Romualdas Apanavičius, and its members, Prof. Habil. Dr. Juozas Kulys and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alfredas Bumblauskas, visited the Institute. The guests met with the administration, department heads, researchers, and doctoral students. They discussed criteria and priorities for evaluating the humanities, as well as the Institute’s scholarly work. On November 21, Ikuo Murata, a renowned Japanese scholar of Baltic studies, translator of Lithuanian literature into Japanese, and professor at Tokyo Keizai University, visited the Institute. On November 30, Magdalena Michałowska from the Institute of Slavic Studies in Warsaw visited the Institute. On December 8–9, Polish linguists Romanas Roszko and Danutā Roszko. Lietuvių kalbotyros klausimams visited the Institute and presented an article. Publications of the Institute and the Institute of Slavic Studies in Warsaw were exchanged. People and Dates On February 10, by decree of the President of the Republic of Lithuania, the Institute’s director, Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas, was awarded the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, Fourth Class. On March 7, in the Academy of Sciences building, the Speaker of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, Professor Vytautas Landsbergis, presented the 1996 State Science Prizes of the Republic of Lithuania and laureate diplomas to the authors and editors of volumes 7–16 of the Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language: Irena Erm antytė, Sofija Kėzytė, Jonas Paulauskas, Kazys Ulvydas, Vytautas Vitkauskas, Klementina Vosylytė, Angelė Vilutytė-Rimševičienė, Kazimieras Pakalka. On March 26, Vytautas Magnus University awarded Dr. Juozas Karacieju the academic title of Associate Professor. On April 30, Vilnius Pedagogical University awarded Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas the academic title of Professor. On July 3, colleagues in the Dictionary Department congratulated Dr. Ireną Erm anytę on her milestone anniversary. 272 On November 21, the Dictionary Department commemorated the hundredth anniversary of one of the most esteemed contributors to the Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language, Bronė Vosylytė. Flowers were laid on the honoree’s grave at Saulės Cemetery. On November 23, a Mass was offered in the Church of St. Nicholas in memory of the deceased on her birthday. Publishing In 1997, the following publications of the Institute were issued: Vytautas Ambrazas, Emma Geniušienė, Aleksas Girdenis, Nijolė Sližienė, Dalija Tekorienė, Adelė Valeckienė, Elena Valiulytė. Lithuanian grammar. Ed. by Vytautas Ambrazas. – V.: Baltos lankos. – 1997. – 802 p. Conference of Young Linguists (Conference abstracts. November 20, 1997) / Organizing committee: Daiva Atkočaitytė, Vilija Lazauskaitė, Asta Leskauskaitė, Edmundas Trumpa. – V.: Institute of the Lithuanian Language. – 1997. – 24 p. – 170 copies. Jono Jablonskio Conference: Language Culture. Tradition and the Present (Abstracts. Vilnius, October 3, 1997) / Ed. Pranas Kniūkšta; prepared for publication by Dana Vainauskienė, Ramunė Vaskelaitė. – V.: Institute of the Lithuanian Language. – 1997. – 26 p. – 100 copies. Language Culture / Editorial board: Vytautas Ambrazas, Kazys Gaivenis, Pranas Kniūkšta (editor-in-chief), Vitalija Maciejauskienė, Rita Miliūnaitė, Gertrūda Naktinienė, Aldonas Pupkis. Issue compiled and prepared for publication by Albina Bataitytė. V.: Institute of the Lithuanian Language. – 1997. – [Issue] 69. – 122 p. – 1,500 copies. Language Culture / Editorial board: Vytautas Ambrazas, Kazys Gaivenis, Pranas Kniūkšta (editor-in-chief), Vilija Maciejauskienė, Rita Miliūnaitė, Gertrūda Naktinienė, Aldonas Pupkis. Issue compiled and prepared for publication by Albina Bataitytė. V.: Institute of the Lithuanian Language. – 1997. – [Issue] 70. – 116 p. – 1,500 copies. Language Advice Information Bulletin I. January–June 1995. Edited by Rita Miliūnaitė, prepared for publication by Janina Vileikienė. – V.: Institute of Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing. – 1997. – 56 p. – 500 copies. Language Advice Information Bulletin II. July–December 1995. Edited by Rita Miliūnaitė, prepared for publication by Janina Vileikienė. – V.: Institute of Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing. – 1997. – 64 p. – 500 copies. Language Advice Information Bulletin III. January–June 1996. Edited by Rita Miliūnaitė, prepared for publication by Janina Vileikienė. – V.: Institute of Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing. – 1997. – 48 p. – 500 copies. Simas Karaliūnas. Language and Society. Psychosociological and Communicative Features of Language Use. – V.: Institute of the Lithuanian Language. – 1997. – 440 p. – 600 copies. Danguolė Mikulėnienė, Kazys Morkūnas. Texts of the Dieveniškės Dialect. – V.: Institute of Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing. – 1997. – 192 p. 273 Program for the study of Lithuanian dialects and their interaction. Sociolinguistics. Compiled by Valerijus Čekmonas, Laima Grumadienė. Ed. Kazys Morkūnas. – V.: Publishing House of the Institute of the Lithuanian Language. – 1997. – 32 p. – 300 copies. Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language. Vol. 18: Vali – vėsus / Editor-in-chief Vytautas Vitkauskas; Editorial board: Jonas Paulauskas, Rimutė Petrokienė, Dovilė Svetikienė, Vytautas Vitkauskas. – V.: Institute of Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing. – 1997 – XXII, 986 p. – 3000 copies. Issues in Lithuanian Linguistics. Vol. 37: Problems of Lexicography and Lexicology / Volume compiled by Irena Erm… Pranas Kniūkšta, Antanas Lyberis. A Learner’s Dictionary of Lithuanian Spelling and Accentuation (5th edition). – K.: “Šviesa”. – 1997. – 367 p. Texts of Lithuanian Dialects. Ed. Vytautas Vitkauskas. [Vol.] 2: Speech of the Longtime Residents of Vilnius. Prepared by Elena Grinaveckienė and Vytautas Vitkauskas. – V.: Institute of Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing. – 1997. – 55 p. – 1000 copies. Martynas Mažvydas. Christmas Hymns. Prepared by Juozas Karaciejus. – V.: “Vyturys” Publishing House. – 1997. – 125 p. The State Language of the Republic of Lithuania: Collection of Legal Acts. Compiled by Danguolė Mikulėnienė, Jūratė Palionytė. – V.: Institute of Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing. – 1997. – 74(2) p. – 4000 copies. Artūras Judžentis 275