Lietuvių kalbos instituto kronika. 1996

LITHUANIAN LANGUAGES INSTITUTO CHRONICLE 1996 1996 July information on The institute is spread across global computer networks. Ją can be found at: http; //www.mch.mii.Ilt/more/Iki/pradzia.htm Institute’s computer mail address: lki@ ktl.mii.lt Structure Director of the Institute until 1996 m. Decembe15 r— prof. Habil. Dr. Zigmas Zinkevičius. Deputy Directors Dr. — Kazys Carrot (for scientific purposes) ir Kęstutis Jurkūnas (general affairs). Scientific Secretary until 1996 m. February 1 d. — Irena Andriukaitienė, since February 1 d. — Dr. Artūras Yugentis. 1996 metals The Institute operated six departments: Dictionary (head — doc. Dr. Vytautas Vitkauskas), Grammar (head of — prof. Habil. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazas), Vardyno (manager — habil. Dr. Vitalija Maciejauskienė), Terminology (supervi- — sor Dr. Kazys Gaivenis), Language History and Dialectology (supervisor Dr. Kazys Morkūnas), Language Culture (supervisor Dr. Pranas Kniūkšta- ). Working Publishing Group (interim chairperson Neda Marcinkowski). 1996 at the end of the year The Institute 125 employed iš jų 94 staff, researchers, 34 scientists (2 habilitated doctors, 6 habilitated doctors, doctors, doctors). 4 23 Ramutė Bingeliené, Asta Kupčinskaitė, Vilija Lazauskaite, Evija Lipartė and Vilija Sakalauskiene. Main lines of activity The following are the main activities of the Institute: research on the lexicology, grammatical structure, dialects, nomenclature and terminology of the Lithuanian language; studies of the history of the Lithuanian language and linguistic relations, studies of the current functioning of the Lithuanian language in society and its normalization. Important decisions of the Institute Council On February 20, the results of the research work of the Institute in 1995 and the plans for 1996 were discussed; approved for printing Ka/bo culture 68 notebook; the right of foreign researchers to use the computerized version of the 260 Contemporary Lithuanian Language Dictionary was discussed; the license agreement for its use was ir approved; The Institute's Scientific Secretary was confirmed by Dr. Artūras Judžentis; adopted habil. Dr. Vitalija Maciejauskienės request for dismissal ją iš VDU ir The chairperson of the doctoral habilitation committee of the humanities field of linguistics of ir LKI, habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas. March 22 d. considered 1995 in the years adopted VDU ir Organization of the work of LKI doctoral students; discussed the draft of the general provisions of the system of ir pedagogical scientific titles of the Republic of Lithuania. April discussed the results of the international 16 d. expertise of the Institute; adjusted Danutės The composition of the doctoral study committee. May 23 d. confirm print Volume of Lithuanian Language 18 Dictionary, Volume 36 of Lithuanian Linguistics Questions and Vytautas Vitkauskas’ Living Language Facts for the Lithuanian Language Dictionary; set the layout rates for the collection of linguistic works; ir į VDU Senate The representative of the Institute was proposed Prof. Habil. Dr. Zigmas Zinkevičius; discuss meeting su UNESCO guides ir admission to PhD year į affairs. 1996 July 3 d. formed reception į VDU ir 1996 – LKI doctorate in linguistics in the field of humanities; negotiations on the protection of the Institute’s Antakalnis Palace; was informed about the Institute’s participation in the project Research and study institutions in world computer networks. On September 24, the composition of the doctoral study committees of the Institute of Ramutė Bingelienė, Asta Kupčinskaitė, Vilija Lazauskaitė, Evija Lipart, Vilija Sakalauskienė, accepted in 1996, was approved, the composition of the doctoral study committees of VDU doctoral students Raimonda Adamonaitė, Birutė Briaukienė, Sigita Jankauskaitė, Jovita Liutkutė was approved, the composition of the doctoral study committee of doctoral student Audra Zavadzkaitė was adjusted, the composition of the doctoral study committee of VDU doctoral student Gailius Laukagalis was approved; proposed candidates of representatives of the Institute to the reserve of the Expert Commission of the Study Quality Assessment Centre. On October 15, it was decided to submit to the competition for the Science Prizes of the Republic of Lithuania — volumes 7-16 of the Lithuanian Language Dictionary and their authors and editors Dr. Irena Ermanytė, Dr. Sofija Kėzytė, Dr. Jonas Paulauskas, Dr. Kazys Ulvydas (posthumously), Doc. dr. Vytautas Vitkauskas, Dr. Klementina Vosylytė, Angela Vilutytė-Rimševičienė, Dr. Kazimieras Pakalkas; State Scientific Scholarships — dr. Rita Miliūnaitė candidate; Young Scientists’ Research Papers Competition — dr. The work of Danutė Marija Liutkevičienė; Higher degree state scholarships — habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas’ candidacy; Martynas Mažvydas Prize — prof. Jochen Dieter Range's scientific work. The agreement on scientific cooperation between the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw) and the Institute of Lithuanian Language was approved, as well as the draft agreement on scientific cooperation between the Faculty of Philology of St. Petersburg State University and the Institute of Lithuanian Language. 261 On December 30, 1997 he was elected Director of the Institute. Algirdas Sabaliauskas; approved for publication: Lithuanian Linguistics Issues vol. 37, Terminology [Sas.] 3, Lithuanian Language Dialects and Their Interaction Research Program. Sociolinguistics. A Grammar of Modern Lithuanian / V. Ambrazas, K. Garšva, A. Girdenis, E. Jakaitienė, P. Kniūkšta, S. Krinickaitė, V. Labutis, A. Laigonaitė, E. Oginskienė, J. Pikčilingis, A. Ružė, N. Sližienė, K. Ulvydas, V. Urbutis, A. Valeckienė, E. Valiulytė; Vilnius: Lietuvos kalbos institutas, 2006. Red. V. Ambrazas. —V. : Science and encyclopedias 1-kla. —1996 —2nd revised edition —743 p.: schem. — 3000 BC. The Great Polish-Lithuanian Dictionary. T. 3: r —ž /Prepared by G. Subačius. Abstracts in Polish and English —V. : Science and encyclopedias 1-kla. — 1996. — 384 p. — 1000 exp. Conference of Jonas Jablonskis: At the Border of Language Culture and Stylistics: (Thesis of the Presentations. Vilnius, 4 October 1996) /Red. P. Kniūkšta; The press was prepared by D. Vainauskienė. —V. : Lithuanian k. inst. —1996. —22 p. —150 ex. Language culture. [Sas.] 68/Red. The judges: V. Ambrazas, K. Gaivenis, P. Kniūkšta, V. Maciejauskienė, R. Miliūnaitė, G. Naktinienė, A. Pupkis, K. Ulvydas; The booklet was compiled and prepared for the press by A. Bataitytė. V.: Lithuanian k. inst. — 1996. —122 p. —1500 ex. In Lithuanian: researchers and research. Theses of conference reports on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the first Lithuanian book — the Catechism of Martynas Mažvydas. October 23-24, 1996 /Org. commission: D. Mikulėnienė, K. Morkūnas, A. Sabaliauskas. —V. : Lithuanian k. inst. —1996. —39 p. —200 ex. Research programme on Lithuanian dialects and their interaction. Pronunciation /Composed by: D. Mikulėnienė, B. Stundžia; Ats. red. K. Morkūnas. —V. : Lithuanian k. inst. — 1996. —91 p. —300 ex. Dictionary of the English Language. T. 17: Tule —valgus /Vyr. ed. by V. Vitkauskas; Editors: I. Ermanytė, G. Naktinienė, J. Paulauskas, Z. Šimėnaitė, V. Vitkauskas. —V. : Science and encyclopedias 1-kla. —1996 —1079 p. —5000 ex. Lithuanian Linguistics. T. 36: Lithuanian language: researchers and researches | The volume was compiled by: D. Mikulėnienė, K. Morkūnas, A. Sabaliauskas; Editors: V. Ambrazas (corresponding editor), V. Maciejauskienė, D. Mikulėnienė, K. Morkūnas (corresponding editor), G. Naktinienė, B. Stundžia, Z. Zinkevičius. —V. : Lithuanian k. inst. — 1996. —246 p. —700 ex. Sabaliauskaitė D. M. Lithuanian language names of clothes. Abstract of the doctoral dissertation in the field of linguistics. —V., 1996.—11 p. — 100 ex. Terminologija [Sas.] 3 /Red. Board: A. Buračas, K. Gaivenis (ed.), A. 262 Kaulakienė, J. Klimavičius (at. red. Figure 1. A. Smilgevičius. — V.: Lithuanik. an inst. — 1996. — 119 p. — 500 exp. Vaičiulytė-Romančuk O. Real names In the dialect of Gervėčiai neighbourhood / Ats. red. E. Currency. Summary in English k. — V.: Lithuanik. an inst. —- 1996. - 160 p. — 700 exp. Vanagas A. Names of cities in Lithuania | Prepared ir by V. Maciejauskienė. Summary. k. — V.: Science ir encyclopedias 1-class. — 1996. — 322 p. —3000 copies Vitkauskas V. Living language facts The collection program for the Lithuanian language dictionary | Edited by ir orientaciniais klausimais added I. Ermanyte. — V.: — 1996 —56 p. —1000 ex.. Zinkevičius Z. The History of the Lithuanian Language. With a Foreward by W. R. Schmalstieg. — V.: Science ir encyclopedias 1-class. — 1996. — 333 p. — 1000 exp. Prestigious ir other important Publication of the Institute's work 1996 m. Funds were provided by the Ministry of Education and Science and the State Lithuanian Language Commission from the State Language Use and Education Program. Participation in the press 63.5 scientific articles (9 of them in foreign journals) and 43.33 conference theses (23.33 of them in international conferences) were published. On July 1-14, the Dictionaries Section of the Scientific Expedition organized an expedition in the surroundings of Alytus, Molėtai district. The expedition was led by Zita Šimėnaitė, participated Angelė Kaulakienė, Ritutė Petrokienė, Klementina Vosylytė. The speakers were assisted by G. Jakučionienė, a teacher from Alytus secondary school, and students from higher education institutions. During the expedition, 24 hours of dialect texts were recorded and 2000 lexicographical records were donated to the Lithuanian language dictionary. The Department of Language History and Dialectology organized three expeditions: on 27 June — 5 July Vita Pranskūnaitė (leader), Ona Aleknavičienė, Rima Bacevičiūtė, Ričardas Petkevičius, Nijolė Tuomienė and Edmundas Trumpa went to the surroundings of Ylakiai in Skuodas district; July 8-19, in the Balčiai area of Utena district, material was collected by Laima Grumadienė (manager), Ričardas Petkevičius, Vita Pranskūnaitė, Irena Raišutienė, Nijolė Tuomienė, Aloyzas Vidugiris and students of Vilnius Pedagogical University; On 23-31 July 2016, the dialect was studied in the Taujėnai area of Ukmergė district by Edmundas Trumpa (leader), Daiva Atkočaitytė, Rima Bacevičiūtė, Asta Leskauskaitė, Vita Pranskūnaitė, Audra Zavadzkaitė and students of Vytautas Magnus University. Dialectal material was also collected from the dialects of Linkmenai (Vytautas Kardelis) and Pelesa (Edmundas Trumpa). 263 Under various forms of ir applications (Dialects ir jų interaction study, Language facts collection, European language atlas) of the whole iš section recorded about units of dialectal data, 7000 tapes recorded about hours of į texts. Conferences, seminars On January 26-27, 70 2009, in Vilnius, Teachers' House, was held the conference "Technical culture in the restored Republic of Lithuania: rise or decline? presentations read by Jonas Klimavičius (How language stabilizes) and Vytautas Vitkauskas ( "Final results of the final round". At the 31st Lithuanian National Physics Conference, held on 5-7 February, Angelė Kaulakienė presented the paper Peculiarities of the Development of Physics Terminology. Algirdas Sabaliauskas told about the life and work of the famous linguist at the commemoration of August Schleicher, held at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania on February 19. On February 22, at the Latvian Language Institute’s scientific conference Statics and Dynamics of the Ka/ba, dedicated to the 123rd anniversary of the birth of academician Janis Endzelins, presentations were read by Saulius Ambrazas (De/baltic derivatives with the suffix *-modarybos raidos) and Ričardas Petkevičius (Del lietuviy and Latvian nouns of the same meaning). At the Mažvydas Readings held at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania on 28 March, Juozas Karaciejus (Wo/fenbiittelio postilė in the context of Lithuanian scripts of Lesser Lithuania) and Artūras Judžentis (Studies of the language of Martynas Mažvydas’ scripts: state and challenges) presented their papers. On April 18, the Department of Language Culture of the Institute organized a seminar on Foreign Languages through the Eyes of Linguists and Language Users in Vilnius City Council. In it Jonas Klimavičius spoke about the search for missing words and the seekers, Danguolė Mikulėnienė reviewed the word order and the corrections of the society, Pranas Kniūkšta discussed the attitude to strangeness and called not to fear the borrowed, but the foreign spirit. Especially for this event Jurga Girčienė and Loreta Vaicekauskienė prepared a brochure “Svetimybés ir jy pakaitai”. On April 22, Vytautas Vitkauskas delivered a presentation on the “Preciousness of the Language and Ideas of Young Lithuania” at a conference organized by the Maironis Lithuanian Literature Museum in Kaunas. On April 25, Vidmantas Kuprevičius read a presentation on the problem of researching the literary and literary (written) language of Lafgaliesu at a seminar in Rezekne. The presentation was entitled “On the Latvian language words in the handwritten register of an unknown author of the Lithuanian Eastern — Polish language of the first half of the 19th century”. On April 25-26, the State Lithuanian Language Commission at the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania organized a seminar “Language management: theoretical and practical problems”, in which Laima Grumadienė (Language management success story — relationship with society), Pranas Kniūkšta (About language management strategy — 264 ją), Danguolė Mikulėnienė (Language management: standardization ir and administration), Loreta Vaicekauskienė (Language and prestige) and Vytautas Vitkauskas (How to manage our common language). Vytautas Vitkauskas spoke about a small nation with a large dictionary at the meeting organized by the Vilnius City Council on 3 May, while Pranas Kniūkšta talked about the fear of Lithuanian words in Vilnius public records. On May 3-4, at the international conference Relics of Western Baltic Language and Culture, organized by the Baltic Centre of Klaipėda University, Aloyzas Vidugiris read a presentation on the connections between the lexicon of Zietela and that of Southern Altay. On May 6, 2016, Marytė Razmukaitė and Vidas Garliauskas participated in the UN Baltic Division Expert Group Meeting on Geographical Names Standardization, held in Riga. Danguolė Mikulėnienė, Aloyzas Vidugiris and Zigmas Zinkevičius participated in the discussion Mother tongue: concerns about its fate, organized by the Chamber of Scientists on 7 May. Saulius Ambrazas delivered a presentation on the historical perspective of word formation in Baltic languages at a seminar held at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) on 18-25 May. On June 4, at the conference Culture and Society, organized by the Institute of Humanities of Kaunas University of Technology, Kazys Gaivenis and Angelė Kaulakienė (Principes of extralinguistic terminology standardization) and Stasys Keinys (Lithuanian language at the dawn of the 21st century) presented their papers. On June 7, at the conference “Nation and Language” organized by the Kaunas Verdene Club, Kazys Garšva (Lithuanian language affairs on the outskirts of the state) and Zigmas Zinkevičius (Vilnius — world baltisty centre) read their presentations. At the conference of the World Lithuanian Association Lithuanian Studies on the Eve of the 21st Century: Research Priorities, Methods and Innovations, held on 4-6 July, Zigmas Zinkevičius (On the Priorities of Research in Historical Lithuanian Studies) and Aloyzas Vidugiris (The Meaning and Perspectives of Lithuanian Language Dialects) presented their papers. Kazys Morkūnas participated in the meeting of the European Atlas of Languages editors held at the Latvian Language Institute (Riga) on 20-21 September. He read a report on the work of linguistic geography in Lithuania. On October 4, 2017, at the Jono Jablonskio conference T7ies language culture and stylistics border, organized by the Department of Language Culture and the Department of Lithuanian Language of Vilnius University in Marijampolė, Laima Grumadienė (Zarmė elements in common language), Asta Kupčinskaitė (Propensity to use non-Lithuanian language elements (dialects)) and Pranas Kniūkšta (Spread and distribution of stationery stamps) read presentations. On October 22, 2016, at the conference National terminology: history, tagline and perspectives, Albina 265 nė Auksoriūtė, Kazys Gaivenis and Angelė Kaulakieskaitė presented a joint presentation A few thoughts about Lithuanian terminology standards. October 23-24 d. Institute At the International ir Conference Lithuanian Language: Researchers Researches ir (first Lithuanian books — Martyno Mažvydo Catechism — 450 year anniversary) lectures read Ona Aleknavičienė (Ion Problems of the Study of Bretkūno Postilas Lexicon), Saulius Ambrazas (Regarding the suffix of the names of su the specialty holders -(i)ūnas origin), Irena Andriukaitienė (Color names XVI-XVII a. monuments of Lithuanian writing), Daiva Atkočaitytė (Distribution of Eržvilko schneck premonitions in diphthongs), Rima Bacevičiūtė (For consonants [I] ir [I'] pronunciation), Nijolė Čepienė (Karaliaučius archive documents), Kazimieras Gaivenis, Valentinas Černiauskas ir Vida Žilinskienė ( Lithuanian Language Terms Bank), Kazimieras Garšva (South-east Phonetics of Latvian-Lithuanian dialects), Jolanta Gelumbeckaitė ( Relationship of Vulgate prepositional constructiosu ns in iliativ J. Bretkūno Gospels by Luke translation), Elena Grinaveckienė (Phraseologisms of Lithuanian origin in Belarusian conversations- ), Laima Grumadienė (Surnames a. of inhabitants of Žasliai parish in the middle of the 18th century), Juozas Karaciejus (When the first Lithuanian book was published- ), Gina Kavaliūnaitė (S. B. Chylinskio The Bible ir in its translation source problem), Pranas Kniūkšta (On the noun of the pronoun tamsta), Vilija Lazauskaitė (Root pronunciation of adjectives of the Dél unnamed genus), Asta Leskauskaitė (Pre-fat t, d" ir k“, mixing g' of southern and ir eastern Vilnius dialects), Evija Lipartė (About some adverbial and locative constructions in S. Daukanto writings), Milda Lučinskienė (Some lexical differences in J. Jaknavičius’ 1647 and 1705 Gospels), Danguolė Mikulėnienė (About the relationship between connective conjunctions kad and ka), Kazys Morkūnas (Morphology of the verb from M. Mažvydas’ writings and D. Klein’s grammar), Alma Ragauskaitė (Dicamenous personal nouns of 16th-century Žemaitijos peasants), Nijolė Tuomienė (How does change in bilingual environment), Edmundas Trumpa (Some characteristics of the /a/ phoneme in Pelesa dialect), Aloyzas Vidugiris (Zanavykai — descendants of Žemaičiai or Sūduviai?), Vytautas Zinkevičius (Computerization of the study of ancient Lithuanian writing), Zigmas Zinkevičius (The first Lithuanian book and the origins of our written language). In addition, Anatolij Nepokupnyj from Kiev (K mpobiremam aud pepeHITHAIHI C/IIAaBH3MOB M. Maxnsuraca), Ilga Jansone (Varda cilme un ta semantiska motivācija (latv. piedurkne- )) and Anna Stafecka from Riga (Iz/oknu ipatnibas spirituālo dziesmu kramā „Dzismies Swatas...- “) read presentations at the conference. (1801), lecturers of Lithuanian higher schools, doctoral students and other Lithuanianists. On November 6, at the Kazimieras Bogas conference organized by the Department of Baltic Philology of Vilnius University, Laimutis Bilkis (De/the origins and creations of some ancient helonymy), Jonas Klimavičius (Apidėmė), Vitalija Maciejauskienė (Classification of Lithuanian surnames (personal names)) and Zigmas Zinkevičius (Kuršių, kuršininkų, nauja kurijų ar nerijos kurijų kalba?) read their papers. 266 December 21 d. At the conference ir organized by the Lithuanian Literature Folklore Institute, dedicated to Lauryno 150th anniversary of Ivinskis calendar, lectures read Albina Auksoriūtė (L. Ivinskii Nature. Names of systematic categories) ir Vytautas Vitkauskas (Selection of lexicon for the press (by L. "Ivanov's Letters". Internships, business trips April May 30 — 25 d. Habil. Dr. Simas He was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In Warsaw libraries he collected material and read literature on the origin ir and development of ethnonyms ir of Slavic tribes in the Balto-Slavic etymology. of June 24 — July 2 d. At the Nordic Summer School on Time Factors in Vatnahalsen (Norway) ir (Nordic summer school on tense and aspect), participated in the ir presentation on the tense and verb in the modern Lithuanian language's complex connective tense sentences (7ėnse and aspect temporal complex in sentences modern Lithuanian in language's complex connective tense sentences). Lithuanian) read by PhD student Jūratė Pajediene. of August 18 — September 1 d. PhD student Gina Kavaliūnaitė trained in Antwerp (Belgium). In the summer school she studied modern Dutch and collected material in libraries about Dutch Bible translations. September December 3 — 31 d. Vincentas Drotvinas, professor of Vilnius Pedagogical University, trained at the Institute. The internship was led by Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas. 4 September — 24 December 2016 Habil. dr. The King's Man. He studied Indo-European and Finno-Ugric literature in the libraries of Helsinki and collected material for his research work. From 24 November to 22 December, Gina Kavaliūnaitė, a PhD student, spent her internship in the Netherlands. In Amsterdam and other cities she studied the sources of S. B. Chylinski’s Bible translation, and provided the Institute with a facsimile edition of the main jy—Sfafenbijbel. — On December 8-13, PhD student Mi/da Lučinskienė spent an internship at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. She collected material for her dissertation in Warsaw libraries. From 27 March to 3 April and from 22 to 30 October, Professor Anatolij Nepokupnyj, Head of the Department of the Ukrainian MA A. Potebny Institute of Linguistics (Kiev), visited the Institute and collected Lithuanian language data for his work. At the conference Lithuanian language: researchers and research guest read a presentation. On 12-17 April the Institute was visited by the State University of St. 267 ceiling A/eksej Andronov, Assistant Professor, Department of General Linguistics, Faculty of Philology. May 22 d. Professor Lars-Gunar Larsson, University of Uppsala (Sweden) University of Vilnius In the Department of Slavic Philology read a presentation 7the influence of Baltic languages on Baltic Finnic languages. Listening to the message ir The Institute's staff. The 23 d. guest of May visited the Institute. Su he met Director of the Institute Zigmas Zinkevičius, Kazys Morkūnas, Algirdas Sabaliauskas. of June 14 d. Italian Baltist visits the Institute Pietro Umberto Dini. July 11 d. LKI ir LLTI visited, inspected the su constructions with Lithuanian Studies Funds of the Institute LR President Algirdas Brazauskas, presidential advisors Romas Gudaitis, Arvydas Matulionis, head of the presidential office Andrius Meškauskas. July 18 d. visited Bjorn Wiemer iš University of Konstanz, Germany. September 13 d. Institute visited Russia MA Professors of the Institute of Linguistics Georgij Klimov ir Joey Edelman. September 14-16 d. visited a philosopher interested in Lithuanian studies iš Dutch Derk Boonstra. On October 23, the Institute was also visited by guests from the Latvian Language Institute (Riga) //ga Jansone and Anna Stafecka, who presented their papers at the conference Lithuanian language: researchers and research. People and dates January 20 habil. dr. The King was 60 years old. On February 15, academician Kazys Ulvydas was awarded the Order of the Grand Duke Gediminas of Lithuania of the third degree. On February 16, the foreign members of the Latvian Academy of Sciences Zigmas Zinkevičius and Algirdas Sabaliauskas together with the Chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Academician A/girdas Gaižutis, participated in the general meeting of the Latvian MA, dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of this scientific institution. During the ceremony, the President of the Latvian MA 74/s Millers presented Zigmantas Zinkevicius with the diploma of a foreign member of the Latvian MA. On 8 March at the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences Prof. Dr. Zigmantas Zinkevičius was awarded the 1995 Lithuanian Republic Science Prize and the laureate’s diploma for his book Lithuanian Language History. On March 19, the Academy of Sciences hosted a meeting with the laureate of the 1995 Lithuanian Republic Science Prize, academician Zigmas Zinkevičius. The origins of the Lithuanian written language. At the meeting spoke habil. dr. A/girdas Sabaliauskas. April 9, 2000. On Easter day, the Institute- ’s youth and families gathered for a fun evening in the hall of the Lithuanian Literature and Folklore Institute, remembered the old customs of this holiday, danced and sang. 268