CHRONICLE OF THE INSTITUTE OF THE LITHUANIAN LANGUAGE

1992

Structure

6 departments: Dictionaries (head: V. Vitkauskas, Candidate of Philological Sciences), Grammar (head: V. Ambrazas, Doctor of Philological Sciences), Language Culture (head: P. Kniūkšta, Candidate of Philological Sciences), Terminology (head: K. Gaivenis, Candidate of Philological Sciences), Onomastics (acting head: V. Maciejauskienė, Candidate of Philological Sciences), and History of the Lithuanian Language and Dialectology (head: K. Morkūnas, Candidate of Philological Sciences).

On May 26, a Publishing Group was established. V. Gružas was appointed head.

At the end of 1992, the Institute had 105 employees, including 73 research staff (5 Doctors of Philological Sciences and 27 Candidates of Philological Sciences). There were 7 doctoral students in linguistics doctoral programmes at LKI and VDU.

Scientific Research

The following research areas were funded from the budget of the Republic of Lithuania: research into the grammatical structure of the Lithuanian language; Lithuanian lexicography; Lithuanian onomastics; standardization and culture of the Lithuanian language; research into and standardization of administrative language; Lithuanian terminology; research into Lithuanian dialects; and the history of the Lithuanian language.

A commissioned project, No. 92–417/13 — ”Lithuanian Grammar” in English, was carried out using funds from the State Science and Studies Foundation.

Publications

6 publications were published (129, 82 printer’s sheets, 52,250 copies):

K. Gaivenis, A. Kaulakienė, S. Keinys, J. Klimavičius. Terminology Corrections. — V.: Mokslas, 1992. — 160 p. — 1,500 copies.

Language Culture / Compiled by P. Kniūkšta. — V.: Mokslas, 1992, issue 62. — 91, [2] p. — 3,600 copies.

Kalbos kultūra / Sudarė P. Kniūkšta. — V.: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidykla, 1992, sąs. 63. — 92 p. — 2000 egz.

Lithuanian Dialects and Their Study. Past and Present (Conference Abstracts. November 5–6, 1992). — V., 1992. — 22 p. — 150 copies.

Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language / Editor-in-chief K. Ulvydas. — V.: Mokslas, 1991, vol. 15. — 1,186, [1] p. — 5,000 copies.

N. Sližienė, A. Valeckienė. Lithuanian Spelling and Punctuation. — 2nd revised photographic edition. — V.: Mokslas, 1991. — 262, [1] p. — 40,000 copies.

Participation in the Press

49 scholarly articles (7 in foreign publications) and 107 popular science articles were published.

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Scientific Expeditions

In June–July, 5 expeditions to collect Lithuanian-language data were organized: 4 dialectological expeditions (Valkininkai, Dieveniškės; Balbieriškis; Suginiai, Mindūnai, Labanoras; the Skuodas area) and 1 lexicographic expedition (Zarasai district). The expeditions were led by L. Grumadienė, D. Mikulėnienė, B. Vanagienė, A. Vidugiris, and K. Vosylaitė. In all, 42 people collected dialect, lexical, and sociolinguistic material.

Conferences and International Scientific Relations

May 7–8 At the International Regional Meeting on the Standardization and Use of Baltic Countries’ Toponyms, held in Tallinn, V. Maciejauskienė (”The Status of the Collection and Publication of Lithuanian Place Names”) and M. Razmukaitė (”Place Names of Lithuania and Ethnic Regions in Cartographers’ Work”) delivered papers.

July 6–August 29 S. Karaliūnas was on a research visit to Iceland. He worked at the library of the University of Iceland and the Arni Magnusson Institute. He attended the International Summer Courses in Icelandic.

August 17–19 At the International Conference on Terminology in Riga, A. Kaulakienė (”Relations between International and Lithuanian Physics Terms”) and A. Auksoriūtė (”Stasys Šalkauskis’s Theory of Terminology”; prepared together with K. Gaivenis, S. Keinys, and R. Medisauskienė) delivered papers.

October 3 At a conference marking the 200th anniversary of the granting of Magdeburg rights to the town of Akmenė, E. Valiulytė presented the paper ”Kalikstas Kasakauskas and His Lithuanian Grammar (1832)”.

November 1–December 31 At the invitation of the Centre for Baltic Studies at Stockholm University, S. Karaliūnas undertook a research visit at Stockholm and Uppsala universities. He worked at the Nordic Place-Name Archive.

November 5–6 The Department of Language History and Dialectology organized a scientific conference, ”Lithuanian Dialects and Their Study: Past and Present,” in commemoration of Antanas Salys (1902–1972). Papers were presented by lecturers from VU, VPU, and ŠPI, and by the following Institute researchers: A. Sabaliauskas (”Professor A. Salys: Man and Scholar”), K. Ulvydas (”A. Salys’s Work at Vytautas Magnus University”), V. Maciejauskienė, D. Smata vičiūtė (”A. Salys’s Calendar Names”), A. Vanagas (”A. Salys’s Work on the Surnames and Place Names Commission of the Ministry of Internal Affairs”), S. Ambrazas (”Several Word-Formation Isoglosses in Old Lithuanian”), N. Čepienė (”The Origin of Dvival­sio ū in German Loanwords”), D. Mikulėnienė (”The Development of the Stress of the Prefix *pa- in Derived Nouns”), K. Garšva (”Consonantism in Peripheral Dzūkian Dialects”), L. Grumadienė (”The Mixing of Accent Paradigms in the Speech of Young People in Punsk”), K. Morkūnas (”Several Remarks on the Boundaries of the Appositive”), V. Pranskūnaitė (”Names for ‘Ewe’ and ‘Lamb’ in Dialects,” based on A. Salys’s ”Questionnaire”), G. Rimu­kienė (”The Particle gal and Its Synonyms in Dialects”), A. Vidugiris (”On the Stages of Slavicization in Southeastern Lithuania”), and V. Vitkauskas (”On Variants of the Sequences an, en, un in Certain Words and Their Forms”). A. Salys’s relatives who had come from the USA—his wife Sofija and daughter Rimga ila—also attended the conference and shared their memories.

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On November 7, the Department of Baltic Philology of Vilnius University held a Jonas Kazlauskas Day, “Topics in Historical Grammar.” Papers in the Phonetics and Accentology section were read by K. Garšva (“The development of the phonetics of the northern Panevėžys dialects”), L. Grumadienė (“The tendency toward transphonologization of vowel quantity in peripheral South Aukštaitian dialects”), and D. Mikulėnienė (“On the development of pitch accents”). In the Morphology section, papers were presented by S. Ambrazas (“The development of the formation of Lithuanian collective nouns”), K. Morkūnas (“On certain singular instrumental forms in Lithuanian dialects”), and A. Vidugiris (“On the use of the genitive of time in Lithuanian dialects”).

November 10–12 At the international symposium held in Vilnius, “Relations between the States of Lithuania and Poland in the History of Central Europe in the 20th Century: The Past and Prospects,” papers were presented by A. Vanagas (“Southeastern Lithuania in Place Names”), L. Grumadienė (“The Mechanism of Language Change in Southeastern Lithuania”), K. Morkūnas (“Several Isoglosses of Word Formation and Inflection in the Dialects of Eastern Lithuanian”), D. Mikulėnienė (“On the Phonetic Features of the Dialects of Eastern Lithuanian”), A. Vidugiris (“Lithuanian Dialects and the Ethnolinguistic Situation in Southeastern Lithuania”), and K. Garšva (“Lithuanian-Polish Relations in the Restoration of Independence”).

November 23 P. Kniūkšta (“Continued Noncompliance with Standard Language Norms in Newspaper Language”), N. Liubinienė, V. Rudaitienė, R. Šiliauskaitė (“Foreignisms in Vilnius Newspapers”), J. Klimavičius (“International Words in the Newspaper”), and R. Miliūnaitė (“The Nominalization of Language”) participated in the seminar on language culture for journalists and delivered papers.

December 15–18 E. Grinaveckienė participated with a paper, “Slavisms in the Lithuanian Dialects of the Vilnius Region,” in a conference organized by the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences on interference in the borderland dialects of Lithuanian, Belarusian, and Polish.

December 17–18 At the international conference “Language Policy in the Baltic States,” held in Riga, A. Vanagas presented a paper, “Legal Regulation of Language Use in Lithuania.”

December 21–22, at the conference “Problems of Eastern Lithuania: Present and Future,” K. Garšva (“Problems of the Lithuanian Culture of Eastern Lithuania”) and L. Grumadienė (“The Latest Sociological Research in Vilnius District” and “The State Language in Eastern Lithuania”) delivered papers.

In 1992, G. Bense, E. J. Bukevičiūtė (Germany), A. Liuima (Italy), and B. and E. Masiokai (USA) visited the Institute and expressed interest in Lithuanian-language research and opportunities for cooperation.

Resolutions of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania

The Statute of the Institute of the Lithuanian Language was approved on January 28 (Resolution No. 58).

On December 15, the Institute of the Lithuanian Language and Vytautas Magnus University were granted the right to award doctoral degrees in the field of linguistics within the humanities (Resolution No. 944).

Institute Council Decisions

January 16 — approved: the regulations for competitions for research staff positions at the Institute of the Lithuanian Language and for the (re)certification of these staff members;

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1992 Certification Commission (I. Andriukaitienė (secretary), K. Gaivenis, A. Kaulakienė, P. Kniūkšta, V. Macijauskienė, K. Morkūnas, G. Naktinienė, J. Paulauskas, A. Sabaliauskas (chairman), A. Valeckienė, A. Vidugiris).

March 12 — A. Vanagas, Doctor of Philology, was elected Director of the Institute; fixed-term employment contracts with J. Paulauskas, K. Ulvydas, and A. Valeckienė were approved; it was decided to establish the Institute’s archive.

April 21 — the LKI 1992 income and expenditure estimate and the list of research projects were approved; K. Morkūnas, Candidate of Philology, was elected Deputy Director for Research.

May 26 — the draft agreement on scientific cooperation between the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences and the LKI was approved; volume 32 of “Issues in Lithuanian Linguistics” (“Studies in Baltic Onomastics”) was approved for publication; the editorial board for volume 17 of the “Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language” was formed (I. Erm an ytė, G. Naktinienė, J. Paulauskas, Z. Šimėnaitė, V. Vitkauskas).

June 18 — it was decided to recommend A. Sabaliauskas to the Lithuanian Science Council as a candidate for the National Awards Committee.

September 18 — three Council members (A. Sabaliauskas, A. Valeckienė, Z. Zinkevičius) were nominated as candidates for the Commission for the Recognition of Academic Degrees and Pedagogical Titles; it was decided to join the Association of Research Institutions; an application for commissioned research (preparation of “Lithuanian Grammar” in English) was approved.

October 27 — two publications were approved for publication (Kalbos kultūra, 64 fasc.; S. Daukantas. Polish–Lithuanian Dictionary. Vol. 1); new rates of payment for dialectological and onomastic material were set.

Dates and People

Defended doctoral dissertations in philology:

June 9 — Marius Daškus, assistant in the Dictionaries Department, “Presentation of Terminological Data in Lithuanian Lexicography” (supervisor V. Vitkauskas, official opponents A. Rosinas and E. Grinaveckienė, examining institution: Vilnius Pedagogical University);

June 23 — Kazimieras Eigminas, assistant in the Dictionaries Department, “The Anonymous Lithuanian Grammar ‘Universitas lingvarum Litvaniae’, 1737” (supervisor V. Ambrazas, official opponents V. Mažiulis and V. Drotvinas, examining institution: Klaipėda University);

June 26 — Rita Miliūnaitė, assistant in the Language Culture Department, “The Principles Underlying the Standardization of Contemporary Lithuanian Grammar” (supervisor A. Paulauskienė, official opponents A. Rosinas and V. Būda, examining institution: Šiauliai Pedagogical Institute).

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November 7, senior research associate of the Grammar Section, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Nijolė Sližienė turned 60.

On November 24, Algirdas Sabaliauskas and Aleksandras Vanagas were elected foreign members of the Latvian Academy of Sciences.

Irena Andriukaitienė

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