Trisdešimt Jono Jablonskio konferencijų

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Accepted: / Priimta: 2025-12-11. 1 THIRTY CONFERENCES OF JONAS JABLONSKIS Thirty Conferences of Jonas Jablonskis IRENA SMETONIENĖ University of Vilnius Institute of Applied Linguistics ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5165-8078 https://doi.org/10.35321/bkalba.2025.98.09 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ When reading about thirty conferences named after Jan Jablonski, one might ask why they were named after him and not after another outstanding linguist. Jablonski was usually associated with standardization, so I have heard from critics that these are internal conferences devoted to a narrow subject of language, which can hardly reach an international level. However, the organizers of the conferences have proved that those who evaluate Jablonskis in this way do not know all his activities, his efforts devoted to Lithuanian science, language and social life. For example, the historian Eligijus Raila considers Jon Basanavičius, Vincas Kudirka and Jonas Jablonskis as the main creators of the ideology of modern Lithuanianness and the pillars of modern Lithuanianness, only the latter’s social and political activities have been discussed in passing (see Grigaravičius 2021). This gap has been filled by Algirdas Grigaravičius’ book “Jonas Jablonskis in Politics and Society” (2022). Undoubtedly, Jablonskis is associated with the beginning of Lithuanian pedagogy and its theoretical justification. He participated in the competition committees that dealt with the issue of the quality of Lithuanian textbooks, raised the issue of textbooks in the press, wrote their reviews. Jablonskis prepared the first official Lithuanian language program for primary school. Of course, Jablonskis is known even outside Lithuania as the creator of the Lithuanian language, its standardizer, its promoter, and its scholar. International Scientific Conference on the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of the Linguist “Jonas Jablonskis and the Centenary of the Common Lithuanian Language” covered many aspects of Jablonskis’s activities, so today this outstanding personality is viewed much more broadly, so the conferences named after him have become interdisciplinary, interesting not only for linguists. Before reviewing the specific conferences, it is necessary to say that this is a joint initiative of Vilnius University and the Lithuanian Language Institute. Initially, the conferences were organized jointly, later, when they grew into international, for the general public. Except for the 4th, all conferences were held either at Vilnius University or at the Lithuanian Language Institute and at about the same time: September, October, November. 2 1993 Jon Jablonskis conference “The category of the link and the use of the link” As Rita Miliūnaitė wrote in the Chronicle section of the first issue of „Gimtoji kalba“ in 1994, „[B]ecause of the joint efforts of the linguists of the Department of Lithuanian Language of Vilnius University and the Institute of Lithuanian Language, a conference by Jon Jablonskis entitled „The Category of the Verb and the Use of Verbs“ took place on October 11 at the Faculty of Philology of the University. This was planned a few years ago and was carefully prepared. It was considered what direction to choose for this event – probably one-off, how it should differ from other similar occasionally organized and probably becoming traditional conferences of Bogdan, Balčikonis, Kazlauskas and others” (Miliūnaitė 1994). The first Jablonski conference tried to harmonize grammar theory and practice, so the conference papers (13 were read) are divided into two parts. In the first part, A. Valeckienė spoke about primary and secondary functions of verbs, V. Labutis – about the asymmetry of verb forms with functions and semantic roles, A. Paulauskienė – about the exclamator as a member of the verb paradigm, J. Šukys – about the generative of negation and purpose in Donelaičio “Metai”, S. Valentas – about the category of verb in poetry, A. Vidžiūnas – about J. Jablonski’s attitude to various fluctuations of morphological forms, evaluation of similarities. In the second part of the conference, the participants listened to the presentation of P. Kniūkšta “More Special Forms of Foreign Words”, L. Grumadienė spoke about the use of adverbs in Punsko dialect, E. Valiulytė compared the use of pro and per constructions with the finalis and their relationship with the norm, and the Englishist I. Šeškauskienė compared the semantics of some English and Lithuanian adverbs. The conference was held on November 11, 1994, 20 papers were read, speakers came from Šiauliai and Kaunas (Vileikienė 1995). At the general meeting were read reports “Regarding the functions of grammatical norm” (V. Labutis), “Specificities of language culture teaching in technical profile higher education” (L. Barzdžiukienė), “What we gain and what we lose by norming language” (P. Kniūkšta), “Linguistic market” (L. Grumadienė), with the new work of the Language Culture Department of the Lithuanian Language Institute – language management information base – introduced J. Vileikienė. Two presentations were devoted to language culture abroad. These are E. Jakaitienė’s presentation “Problems of general language education in Norway” and L. Laužaitė’s “Supervision of the Danish general language”. The work was continued by two sections dedicated to practical aspects of the norm. Analysis of the allocation and expression of undefined quantity and totality (J. Švambarytė), the relationship of the constructions forget what and about what with the norm (E. Valiulytė), the influence of language contacts on the subjective style (R. Kvašytė), the use of space prepositions and their meanings in Lithuanian and English languages (I. Šeškauskienė), the names of goods and dishes in menus (A. Kupčinskaitė), the use of the verb add (D. Vainauskienė), errors of participle use in diploma thesis (V. Žilienė), errors of prepositions in technical language (V. Celiešienė). V. Garliauskas talked about the standardization and usage of local names in Suginčiai parish, V. Rimša – about the imaginary common Baltic language, A. Malakauskas – about the similarities of pronunciation in the third edition of DLKŽ, V. Vitkauskas discussed systematic issues of pronunciation, A. Vidžiūnas – about the standards of pronunciation of adverbial nouns. 1995 Jon Jablonskis Conference “Practice and Methodology of Implementation of Language Culture” The idea is consistently developed that language phenomena cannot be measured with one measure. Kniūkšta stated: “In the work on language culture, it is necessary to distinguish between the real (big) errors of the language system and codification. It is not fitting to commit mortal sins from the latter, much less to despise and insult the users of the language 3 because of them, as is often done” (KTTS 1995: 5). It was also discussed that in order to improve the state of the Lithuanian language, research is needed on what the language is like at the time of discussion, what determines the quality of the language (V. Labutis). Issues of meaning loanwords selection (D. Mikulėnienė), language consultation (A. Kupčinskaitė), computerization of office language data (D. Vainauskienė), implementation of language culture in Lithuanian television (I. Smetonienė), spelling of foreign names (M. Tamošiūnas) were touched. L. Grumadienė presented the English code theory, which can be applied to the Lithuanian language, J. Švambarytė proposed to look at language culture as a fashion and shape it. The attitude of the public towards linguists is an interesting and relevant topic for norm-setters (R. Miliūnaitė, L. Vaicekauskienė). A lot of attention was also paid to the teaching of the specialty language in higher schools (J. Pabrėža, Z. Alaunienė, L. Barzdžiukienė, V. Žulienė and R. Žukienė, E. Molytė, V. Liolienė, L. Pečkuvienė and V. Žilinskienė). 1996 Jono Jablonskio conference “The border of language culture and stylistics” On October 4, the 4th conference of Jono Jablonskio was held at the Rygiškių Jono Gymnasium in Marijampolė. This time the theme was “On the Border of Language Culture and Stylistics” and the conference was dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the birth of J. Pikčilingis (RE 1997). The presentations were read by specialists in language culture and stylistics from higher education institutions and the Lithuanian Language Institute: K. Župerka, R. Koženiauskienė, R. Marcinkevičienė, J. Šukys, J. Barauskaitė, G. Čepaitienė, N. Linkevičienė, V. Labutis, A. Drukteinis, L. Grumadienė, A. Kupčinskaitė, P. Kniūkšta, R. Vladarskienė, V. Žilinskienė, A. Šiupienienė, language administrator of Vilnius city, and I. Smetonienė, linguist of LTV. The conference examined the problems of contemporary language, the interaction of style and culture, the relevance of language norms: the concept of style culture in the works of J. Pikčilingis (K. Župerka), the criteria for distinguishing language and style errors (A. Drukteinis), the relationship of rhetorical elocution with language culture and stylistics (R. Koženiauskienė), euphemism (R. Marcinkevičienė) and others. As Ramunė Vaskelaitė writes in the 70th issue of the journal “Language Culture”, “a large number of linguists and editors from the old university, other higher education institutions, the Lithuanian Language Institute, the Language Commission and the Language Inspection gathered in the Kazimieras Bogdas auditorium of Vilnius University to discuss the issue.” (Vaskelaitė 1997: 32) The theme chosen by the conference organizers is “Language culture: tradition and present”. Not all the presentations were focused on the intersection or opposition of tradition and the present, ideas were also shared on the subjects of teaching and supervision of language culture, and in the discussions after each presentation the issues of tradition and innovation constantly crossed (Vaskelaitė 1997). It has been said that there are many foreign words in Lithuanian language, but clear criteria for norming foreign words have not yet been formulated, so it is difficult to talk about their regulation, even the term foreignness itself is treated differently in various language norming publications (J. Girčienė). It was emphasized that a new approach is needed not only to foreign words, but also to the spoken language, there is a lack of research on the latter, textbooks and an attitude to this language variant in general (L. Vaicekauskienė). A. Ryklienės presentation was devoted mainly to the linguistic positiveness of textbooks, i.e. to the authenticity of the language data accumulated in them, which is so lacking in normative works of Lithuanian language practice, so their examples are correct, but unnatural, perhaps for this reason unacceptable to users. More specific language issues were also discussed at the conference. J. Švambarytė talked about the expansion of the meanings of international words, R. Vladarskienė – about the syntactic expression of accuracy in the language of state documents, A. Paulauskienė – about the category of denotation. Mr. Kniūkšta discussed the trends and shifts in the use of the words „national“ and „national“, „state“ and „state“. D. Mikulėnienė, Vice-Chair of the Language Commission, introduced the work and activities of the Commission, E. Mikulėnaitė, 4 representative of the Language Inspection, reviewed the mistakes made by television journalists. There was also talk about the specialty language course in colleges and higher schools – its importance and problems (V. Labutis, Z. Alaunienė, E. Molytė). 1998 Jon Jablonskis conference “New language phenomena and their evaluation” The tradition of holding conferences in early October is discontinued. This time there were 19 different presentations and interesting discussions. “Ideas were shared by linguists with extensive scientific experience, doctoral students, assistants and people concerned with language affairs” (Vileikienė 1998: 95). The speakers raised the following questions: how to raise the prestige of the language, what to do so that Lithuanian language is not understood as a second-class language, how to plan the change of the common language, how to understand the ecology of the language (D. Mikulėnienė), how to maintain the balance so that the natural tendency of language development is not violated by too strongly stopping the emergence of new things in the language (R. Miliūnaitė). The latter introduced rational and logical stages of standardization of language innovations, which are still relevant today: recording, monitoring and establishing links with similar phenomena; formulation of the problem; the decision whether to leave the phenomenon to natural selection or to try to influence its functioning; a recommendation, if codification cannot be carried out immediately, or an explicit positive or negative codification; implementation of the proposal in the user interface. “Sometimes it is necessary to advise and recommend more, not just correct,” said V. Labutis, speaking about problems when it is necessary to explain minor violations of norms. Discussions were held on terminology, foreign words and their equivalents, unchangeable words in Lithuanian language (J. Girčienė, L. Vaicekauskienė, A. Ryklienė), textbooks and automated searches in them (J. Mikelionienė), advertising language (I. Smetonienė), punctuation in poetic language (J. Abaravičius), formal and syntactic structure of documents (R. Vladarskienė), the use of the iliatives in journalism (R. Vaskelaitė). 1999 Jon Jablonskis conference “Change and use of norms” The conference included 15 presentations and a number of problematic issues were discussed. A lot of discussions were triggered by the report of the Chairperson of the Language Commission D. Mikulėnienė “Public language: norm and use”, which raised the problem of teaching pronunciation, discussed what is generally correct language, and whether correct language may not be entirely correct (Vileikienė 2000b). The conference also talked about the “Dictionary of the Common Lithuanian Language” and the problems of language standardization (variants should not be supported or rejected based on the native dialect of the linguist or other tendencies of individual usage, standards should be determined objectively, after careful examination of real usage), the significance of the dictionary and its attractive form – the electronic version (G. Naktinienė, D. Murmulaitytė). The peculiar expression of electronic language was examined, this language is very uneven both in terms of style and norm, necessary decisions, how it will be evaluated, how it is normized (A. Ryklienė). The flexibility of standardization, the possibility of variants, the principles of evaluation of language phenomena in „Language Advisor“ were discussed in R. Miliūnaitė’s report „Degrees of evaluation of language phenomena in „Language Advisor“. In his presentation, V. Labutis raised the question of what is the current language, how we should perceive it and whether everything found in texts written in Lithuanian really belongs to the Lithuanian language. Another syntax specialist J. Šukys said that the use of noun communication is disappearing, and language controllers, correctors and teachers should help to preserve it. As usual, some of the papers were devoted to specific cases of usage: the denotation of a state with a noun (P. Kniūkšta), the use of prepositions in usage with a suffix (V. M. Knabikaitė), the use of a pronoun with nouns (R. Vaskelaitė), the language of legal documents (D. Černiauskienė), the correct pronunciation in teaching professional language (V. Žilinskienė, D. Vainauskienė), the standardization of foreign words (J. Girčienė), the standardization of terms (S. Zajankauskas), the meaning and usage of quotation marks. (J. Abaravičius). 5 2000 Jon Jablonskis conference “Comparison of language norms and usage” In the review prepared by Janina Vileikiene for the “News” section of “Gimtoji kalba”, it is written: “Continuing the discussion of last year’s conference on common spoken language, senior research associate Rita Miliūnaitė of the Language Culture Department of the Lithuanian Language Institute described common spoken language in terms of various phenomena that function in it – foreign words, dialects, jargons, etc. The current common spoken language is very heterogeneous compared to the written language, and it has recently become more and more close to the so-called street language. Language specialists’ recommendations are more followed in written language, but they cannot always be applied to spoken language. It is necessary to encourage the users of the common language to seek their own means of expression of the common spoken language” (Vileikienė 2000a: 15). The conference also discussed the specificity of style norms (K. Župerka), variants of stylistic terms (V. M. Knabikaitė), deviations of advertising language from the norm (D. Blažinskaitė), foreignness in sentence and written usage (J. Girčienė, A. Ryklienė), reasons for dialectal language diversification (L. Grumadienė), issues of semantic construction and value (A. Kaulakienė), names of the inhabitants of states (D. Liutkevičienė), collisions of phonetic theory and practice (R. Petkevičienė), curses in youth language (R. Apanavičius). Issues of the “Common Lithuanian Language Dictionary” were raised: what criteria should be used for selecting words, how should the scientific vocabulary be presented (G. Naktinienė and D. Svetikienė, L. Puzinienė). Several reports are devoted to the practice of language norms: the use of localis to indicate the field of activity (P. Kniūkšta), the combination of homonymous factors and dialect in documents (R. Vladarskienė), the use of functional synonyms (J. Vaskelienė). 2001 Jonas Jablonskis conference “Language Use and Management” In her keynote speech, R. Koženiauskienė spoke about elite language. The speaker emphasized that the normative aspect is not sufficient for elite language, it requires communicative and ethical aspects. The report lists the characteristics of elite language and concludes that its future depends on the attitude and responsibility of the media. Other reports discussed the actual use of common language, the breaking of norms, the erosion of the boundary between private and public language (L. Grumadienė, J. Girčienė, A. Ryklienė). Mr. Kniūkšta pointed out that language arrangements are becoming more and more administrative, squeezed into frames and bureaucratized, but from another report it becomes clear that the simple language arrangements are also not without shortcomings (E. Rimkutė). R. Miliūnaitė informed how the usage tendency will be shown in the “Language Practice Tips”, and explained what is the norm in general. Several reports showed that there are uncodified language phenomena related to foreign influences: pertarai (G. Akelaitis), acronyms (R. Marcinkevičienė), foreign words (V. Zubaitienė). Among other language phenomena, attributively used adjectives (L. Vaičiulytė-Semėnienė) and the concept of style order in J. Pikčilingio’s “Lithuanian language stylistics” (V. Knabikaitė) were discussed. As Ramunė Vaskelaitė summed up the conference, “new areas and variants of usage, new phenomena not only activate the work of language management, but also force us to rethink the concept of norm and common language, to redefine the boundaries of normative language” (Vaskelaitė 2001: 113). It is also important that the participants in the conference expressed concern about the translation of European Union documents and decided to publish an appeal to the authorities and the public. The petition proposes to involve qualified language specialists in the drafting and translation of documents, since current documents are not always in normative language, which affects public usage. It must be acknowledged that the demands of linguists were heard after some time and language editors began to work in the institutions of the European Union. 2002 Jon Jablonskis conference “Boundaries of the Common Language” Traditionally, overview and problematic reports were read. Some of them covered theoretical questions, others specific assessments of language phenomena, thirds language management matters, 6 fourth language users' preferences. The reports of the introductory session (V. Labutis, J. Klimavičius) are devoted to the understanding of the common language and its boundaries, the report of L. Grumadiene raises the idea of changing language policy, how it will be affected by future membership in the European Union. Later reports raise more problems and questions: the origin and development trends of Lithuanian common language pronunciation (R. Petkevičienė), the relationship between common language norms and functional styles (K. Župerka), parallels between Lithuanian and Latvian stylistics (R. Kvašytė), the necessity of text typology (A. Bitinienė), language pluralism in the electronic medium (A. Ryklienė), the realities of accepting or rejecting borrowings (J. Girčienė), the legalization of the preposition above in common language (P. Kniūkšta), the penetration of the iliative from administrative language into other official styles (R. Vladarskienė), metaphors and occasional constructs in advertising texts (I. Smetonienė), the expression of the relationship between the addressee and the recipient in one of Father Stanislovo sermons (G. Čepaitienė). The functioning of language in society was also discussed. R. Miliūnaitė emphasized that the evaluation of language phenomena is not only twofold – either norm or error – the limits of norm and error are not always easily defined, so it is important for normers to clearly distinguish norm from error and to evaluate intermediate variants more flexibly. E. Zaikauskas drew attention to the permeation of jargon and its existence alongside common language, R. Koženiauskienė – to the use of such words as authority, fame, fame, knowledge, etc. in a distorted meaning, G. Akelaitis discussed the concept of language fashion, D. Smalinskas and D. In the reports of Mrs Kanišauskaitė. 2003 Jono Jablonskio conference “Common Lithuanian language and borrowed words” Already at the very beginning of the conference attention was drawn to the fact that the terms borrowing, foreignness, foreign word may not be quite clear, and it was requested to use them more responsibly and to define them more specifically (Rudzevičius 2003). It is suggested that the List of New Non-Useful Aliens approved in 1997 is not so perfect, rather problematic. Debt rating, selection, evaluation criteria and their application in recommendations, debt rating principles were discussed (R. Miliūnaitė, D. Mikulėnienė, L. Vaicekauskienė, R. Urnėžiūtė). L. Grumadienė showed the nature of the borrowing of Lithuanian language in the context of world languages, from the presentations it became clear that not only borrowings are spreading, but also common international words are used with meanings not typical for us (J. Klimavičius, R. Vladarskienė, P. Kniūkšta), musical directions are even named in scientific works with foreign words (V. Černiutė), there is delay in abandoning borrowings in dictionaries (A. Malakauskas), especially noticeable competition between borrowings and their equivalents in oratory language (J. Girčienė). The conference presented many concrete examples of the use of foreign words and discussed what their possible equivalents are. As P. Kniūkšta emphasized in his introductory speech, modernization is understood very broadly, it includes not only the formation of new words, but also new language phenomena, new language processes and tendencies in general (Blažinskaitė 2004: 201). The conference reports discussed the cognitive model of the reasons for lexical borrowing (L. Vaicekauskienė), the methods of creation of new words and the purpose of their use (J. Girčienė, P. Rudzevičius), the re-creation of terms (J. Klimavičius), the writing of food product names (P. Kniūkšta). R. Vladarskienė drew attention to the influence of the language of European Union documents on the Lithuanian administrative language: international words, cumbersome names, noun constructions have increased, obscuring the verb expression characteristic of the Lithuanian language. R. Koženiauskienė examined the necessary limitation of rhetorical ornaments in subjective texts, D. Blažinskaitė – the use of terminological and stylistic innovations in advertising, I. Smetonienė – the stylistic separation of advertising. R. Miliūnaitė’s report examines text pressure as a prerequisite for the emergence of new 7 linguistic tendencies. In her presentation, A. Ryklienė dealt with contextual abbreviations in electronic language, E. Bondzinskienė – with journalists’ incorrect spelling. In 2005, the conference of Jon Jablonski “Common Language and Society” became international for the first time. 18 presentations were read, 7 of them by guests from abroad (Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia). The topic of the conference was broad, covering both language policy and language planning issues, as well as in-depth studies of usage or speakers’ attitudes, so “it allowed not only to raise and discuss problems of interest to Lithuanian linguists, but also to share experience and discuss with scholars from other, especially neighboring, countries” (Blažinskaitė 2005: 275). In addition to Lithuanian language policy in a changing society, new versions of the Language Act are being prepared (I. Smetonienė), the conference participants were introduced to Norwegian language policy and language standardization (R. V. Fjeld), Swedish language policy (B. Lindgren), public attitude to standardization in Italy (S. M. Lanza), consultations provided by the Estonian Language Institute (S. Mäearu), Estonian anthroponymy and toponymy management (P. Päll), a new type of Estonian language dictionary (T. Leemets and M. Raadik), stylistically marked Latvian and Russian verbs (S. Polkovnikova) and an experiment with the unique world view of trilinguals (M. Zavjalova). Current issues of the Lithuanian language were also discussed: the relationship of public notices with other variations of notices (P. Kniūkšta), the relationship of codification and usage in the current Lithuanian language (R. Miliūnaitė), how consumers understand the concept of common language and how they evaluate the language itself (L. Grumadienė, M. Ramonienė), the influence of English on television advertisements (L. Vaicekauskienė), children’s language (L. Kamandulytė, I. Savickienė) and even the use of quotes (R. Marcinkevičienė). L. Muriniene’s presentation was dedicated to language consultations, more precisely to the VLKK electronic consultation bank. 2006 Jon Jablonskis Conference “Common Language and Other Language Variations” The subjects of the conference covered a fairly wide spectrum: from the origins of the common language to the present, the common language and dialects were discussed, the functional spread of the common language (Rudzevičius 2006: 291). Z. Zinkevičius presented a fairly detailed history of the written and spoken Lithuanian common language, it was stated that the origins of the common language should be sought in the middle of the 13th century, in the time of King Mindaugas, P. V. Subačius examined the polytext of „Anykščių šilelio“, V. Zubaitienė – how much and what semantic information about Lithuanian words is contained in old dictionaries. R. Koženiauskienė pointed out that the concept of language culture has a broader meaning, teaching language culture should not be confined to theoretical considerations. The relationship between common language and dialect (the case of Joniškėlis) (M. Ramonienė), Kazlų Rūda dialect (A. Pupkis), dialect and common language conflict (I. Balčiūnienė), quasi-standard problem (D. Aliūkaitė) were discussed, the topic was supplemented by A. Gritėnienė's report on plant names in dialects and R. Miliūnaitė's discussion of feather names through the eyes of students. In the sub-theme “Functional Spread of the Common Language” reports were read on international lexicon in terminology (A. Čižikaitė), phenomena of the boundary of norms in administrative language (P. Kniūkšta, R. Vladarskienė), the intersection of functional styles in the press (A. Leonavičienė), learning Lithuanian as a foreign language (L. Čubajevaitė). 2007 Jonas Jablonskis conference “New borrowings and their standardization” This conference was dedicated to “perhaps the most dynamic layer of lexicon at the moment (2007 – aut. past.) – new borrowings and the language policy that regulates them” (Bertašavičiūtė 2007: 192). A number of relevant questions were discussed and presented. One of them is the influence of foreign languages and its control (P. Kniūkšta), when faced with different realities of life: the attitude to Russians was a form of the nation’s 8 self-healing, and the new debts from the West spread freely, because they are not related to violence. Z. Babickienė reviewed the topics of norming in linguistic literature, L. Nevinskaitė – language norming and the dissemination of recommendations from the point of view of communication theory, and L. Vaicekauskienė raised the issues of norming in her presentation “Conservatism and modernity in the policy of norming debts”. In response to questions raised by previous conferences, the conference discussed administrative language (R. Vladarskienė), translations of European Commission texts (J. Morkus and E. Zaikauskas), new loanwords in radio and television programs (R. Kanišauskaitė). In the third session, specific cases of use of new debt words were examined: old debt words in the present context (L. Kalėdienė), debt words naming cheeses (D. Liutkevičienė), the technovartosena and norm of words with accent (J. Mikelionienė), the use of debt words in discussion forums (G. Tamaševičius). During the conference, a discussion was held on “Language standardization in Lithuania: needs, means, provisions”, which discussed the reasons for the discrepancy between the standardization of borrowed words and the actual usage, variantity, cases of unsuccessful codification, the problem of adaptation of foreign words, specific words of new culture, their usage and norm (I. Smetonienė, N. Kardelis, S. Drazdauskas, S. Žukas). 2008 Jon Jablonskis Conference “Sociolinguistic Studies of the Lithuanian Language” This is already the 16th conference of Jon Jablonskis. According to Erika Jasionytė’s review (2008), the lectures aimed to stimulate sociolinguistic research on Lithuanian language, to interest young academics in sociolinguistic topics, and to reveal various aspects of sociolinguistic research methodology. This time only 7 reports were read, at the end there was a debate. In the first presentation (M. Ramonienė) the conference participants were introduced to an international project aimed at analyzing the relationship between languages spoken in large Lithuanian cities, other language variants and national identity. Other presentations were aimed at highlighting certain characteristics of the various language variants. We examined the language of blogs (R. Miliūnaitė), the possibilities of manipulation of phraseologisms, language games and the resulting need for linguistic expertise (R. Koženiauskienė), the vocabulary characteristic of spoken language, its use and relationship with Lithuanian language dictionaries, the possible inclusion of spoken language words and their meanings in the “Dictionary of Contemporary Lithuanian Language” (G. Tamaševičius), the provisions of dialectal speaking (D. Aliūkaitė), the differences between male and female language (L. Simonavičienė), sign language (D. Mantrimas). “At the end of the conference, opinions and advice on how to conduct sociolinguistic research were shared” (Zubaitienė 2008: 322). 2009 Jon Jablonskis Conference “Language Variability and Linguistic Attitudes” At the 17th conference, considerable attention was again devoted to sociolinguistics, and the latest research and results of this branch of science were presented (Aleksandravičiūtė 2009: 351). The first part presents a joint Lithuanian-Latvian project “Baltic sociolinguistics: linguistic self-consciousness of society in Lithuania and Latvia” (L. Vaicekauskienė, I. Druviete, L. Lauze, J. Girčienė, L. Nevinskaitė, R. Vladarskienė). Another project – “Language Use and National Identity in Lithuanian Cities” (M. Ramonienė, K. Geben, L. Kalėdienė, A. Lichačiova) was presented at the second meeting. Researchers from Latvia presented the system of evaluation of language competences used in Latvia (R. Zauere), discussed correlations of addressing forms used in Latvian general education institutions and sociolinguistic factors (A. Blūmane). Not only dialectal codes were discussed (D. Aliūkaitė and E. Merkytė), but also linguistic attitudes of hearing and hearing impaired community members (B. Sušinskaitė), expressions of everyday style in public speech and public records, in speeches of politicians (R. Koženiauskienė, G. Tamaševičius), touched and non-touched female surnames (R. Miliūnaitė). 9 2010 International Conference “Jonas Jablonskis and the Centenary of the Common Lithuanian Language” The conference is dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of Jonas Jablonskis – to give meaning to the memory, to discuss the peculiarities of the formation and development of common languages, to examine the current problems of standardization and future prospects (Aleksandravičiūtė 2010). Among the participants – 7 speakers from abroad. In the first part, the book of letters and memoirs “Konstancija and Jonas Jablonskiai” (J. Jablonski’s grandmother E. Lukėnaitė-Griciuvienė), J. Jablonski’s linguistic, pedagogical, scientific and social activities (A. Piročkinas, V. Labutis, G. Čepaitienė, V. Sakalauskienė, G. Akelaitis, I. Čiužauskaitė, V. Buivydienė, L. Lapinskienė), attention to style (R. Koženiauskienė) are described. In the part of the conference devoted to common European languages and their development, guests from abroad reviewed the development and current situation of common German (G. Stickel), S. Walton introduced the biography and works of I. Aasen, the creator of the Norwegian written language, K. Upton discussed the standardization of the English language, J. Šulce’ė – the use of proper names of other languages in Latvian, V. Laugale’ė – the problems of standardization of school names, P. Pällas – the documents governing the Estonian language, his colleagues T. Paet and T. Rehemaa – the history of the Estonian “International Dictionary of Words”, one of the most popular in Estonia, the problems of classification of words by origin, highlighted the main improvements of the new edition. Also discussed were topics relevant to the Lithuanian language: the conception of the norm-setters of the common language from Jablonski’s time (R. Miliūnaitė), the history of the correction of the noun from Jablonski’s “Linksnių ir prielinksnių” to the present day (I. Smetonienė and B. Dambrauskaitė), students’ knowledge of language culture and usage skills (K. Bredelis), students’ linguistic attitudes. (J. J. and J. J.). The 2011 conference was not held. After the establishment of the General Language Department at the Institute of Lithuanian Language in 2012, the course was renewed again and is continuing to be prepared alternately at both institutions: the Institute of Lithuanian Language and Vilnius University. 2012 19th conference of Jon Jablonski dedicated to the centenary of the Lithuanian language syntax This year the conference is dedicated to the centenary of the Lithuanian language syntax published by Jon (J. Jablonski) Rygiškis in 1911 in Seinas. Five presentations on syntax theory and practice were presented: the usage of words, word combinations and sentences were discussed, the tendencies of syntax development were discussed. The benefit and importance of Lithuanian language syntax, called a gift to the Lithuanian language, for schools was emphasized: until then textbooks containing syntax were very lacking. In his presentation “Examples of the Syntax of the Rigiškų Jono Lietuvių Language Part I, their Sources, Purpose, Methods of Presentation” V. Labutis discussed more than 2900 examples from spoken and written language presented in the 110-page publication, some of which have not been recorded anywhere else. A. Drukteinis talked about the speaker’s intention and the formation of secondary sentences, R. Miliūnaitė talked about the constructions of the expression of being. R. Vladarskienė examined the standardization of compound connective sentences, D. Šveikauskienė raised the problem that Lithuanian language is one of the least computerized in Europe. In Lithuania, textbooks containing syntactic functions have not yet been created, and in the world such textbooks are very popular, so it was proposed to prepare a syntactic textbook of the Lithuanian language (Tamašauskaitė 2012: 230–231). 16 the need to change the maturity examination, introduced with the latest research results and insights on student attitudes and the influence of other languages on students’ Lithuanian language, discussed the relationship between language use, teaching and learning (Z. Nauckūnaitė, N. Poderienė and S. Vaičiakauskienė, A. Tamulionienė). At this meeting, two more reports were heard on language problems: L. Murinienė — on names of legal entities and their linguistic normativity and A. Aleksaitė — on emotional-expressive vocabulary in the Lithuanian language new words database. 2022 27th International Scientific Conference “Variability, Change, Standardization of (Language)” The conference took place after a two-year break. The aim was to continue the theme of the 25th Jon Jablonskis conference: to further deepen the problems of variantity, along with exploring other related aspects – language change and standardization. Linguistic diversity in languages, dialects, and linguistic communities; changes in language; peculiarities of language usage and standardization; the relationship between common language and dialects and other variants of language; language policy and standardization topics. The conference also includes the field of language technology, as well as issues of language and identity (Judžentytė-Šinkūnienė 2022: 27). 27 researchers from abroad and 22 from Lithuanian institutions participated in the event both directly and remotely. The work was divided into 5 sections: Dialectology and Phonology, Language and Identity, Language Diversity and Standardization, Old Writing and Language Development, Variants and Norms. During the first plenary session were heard reports on the problematic relationship between language change and standardization (P. Cuzzolin), the model of language standardization, the place of multilingualism in language standardization text (N. McLelland). The section of dialectology and phonology dealt with empirical documentation, problematic aspects of corpus formation (V. Kardelis), the possibility of finding dialectality in archived court documents (Ch. Schneider), the language of former villagers in the territory of Kaunas lakes (Ž. Šidlauskas), the dialectal characteristics of southern Žemaites in Raseiniškiai (D. Dambrauskienė), the somatonics of the northern Žemaites dialect (J. Lubienė and D. Pakalniškienė), the interaction of Lithuanian and Polish languages in the surroundings of Rodūnia (N. Tuomienė), the acoustic structure of Lithuanian and Latvian dialects (E. Švageris), the three-genus system in the dialect of Eastern Campania (G. Visco). The section on language and identity discussed the concept of democracy (I. Smetonienė), Christmas-related vocabulary and traditions used in Eastern Poland (D. K. Rembiszewska), the concept of patriotism in peace and war (M. Smetona), the image of Barack Obama as a charismatic politician in the media (M. Boičenko), Lithuanian diaspora in the East and their identity: the cases of Transvolga and Kazakhstan (L. Vilkienė), what the Polish Dzūks think about their language, which language they feel best speaking (P. Grablunas and J. Niewulis-Grablunas). Wandalin Scukiewicz’s scientific heritage as a new research material for the study of the Slavic and Baltic language community on the border of Lithuania, Belarus and Poland K. Konczewska. In the section of ancient writing and language development were examined the Prussian language (P. U. Dini, I. Lemeškin), the change of Lithuanian lexicon at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries (V. Zubaitienė), the development of current and general Lithuanian dictionaries from the end of the 19th century to the 21st century (V. Sakalauskienė), the authorship of the work “Poesia in lingua Biruta” found in the manuscript archive of Giuseppe Mezzofanti (D. Ardoino), the names of Latvian houses (A. Trumpa), the component parts of the manuscript of Kiprijonas Lukauskas and the sermon “Kada wisa łaymibe Kiemioniszku ėmmoniu…” (J. Pajėdienė). The topics of the presentations in the Language Diversity and Standardization section ranged from theoretical insights to practical issues. The discussions focused on the competition between Vilnius and Kaunas in the mental maps of young Highlanders and Žemaites (D. Aliūkaitė), the Podhale dialect (A. Mlekodaj), the situation of bilingual Malta and the path of the local language to standardization (J. M. Brincat), the state language of Lithuania (J. 17 100th anniversary of the Lithuanian language (A. Antanaitis), language use based on the principle of economics (I. Urbanoviča), language functionality criterion and its importance in codification (A. Drukteinis), experience of language consultants of the Latvian Language Agency (E. Zilgalve). The section on variants and norms deals with the relationship between personal names and plant names (L. Balode), variants and norms of the Lithuanian nomenclature (K. Garšva), the use of participle forms in Lithuanian oratory language (J. T. Ramonaitė), why and when the speaker chooses a “softened” expression of the relationship with the object (L. Vaičiulytė-Semėnienė), questions of vocabulary teaching arising in preparing textbooks and teaching materials for teaching Lithuanian as a foreign language (A. Kaškelevičienė), what and why is considered a mistake when learning Italian as a second language (A. Migliorelli), the linguistic identity of students returning from abroad (A. Tamulionienė), the vocabulary of children of returned emigrants and its peculiarities of use (N. Poderienė). During the second (final) plenary session, J. D. Fleischer discussed the arealist and contact in the multilingual dialect continuum, J. Gelumbeckaitė and K. Chiarcos presented the interdisciplinary project “PosTiMe”, dedicated to the old Lithuanian Lutheran postles. The 28th International Scientific Conference “Language and the Age: Language in the Representation of the Individual, Generation, Society” was distinguished by its interdisciplinary nature – presentations were read by linguists, literary scholars and historians, who explored such topics as the construction of reality and language, linguistic and cultural integration of immigrants and national minorities, language and society, language policy and language ideology, language and identity, etc. (Vaičiulytė-Semėnienė 2023). During the two-day conference, 48 scholars from foreign and Lithuanian institutions presented their papers. The first day’s plenary session featured three presentations: I. Druvietė spoke about the languages of the Baltic States in the new era of multilingualism, B. Klaas-Lang – about language policy at the University of Tartu, I. Koroliovas – about various images of the refugee crisis in English-speaking, Ukrainian and Lithuanian media websites and in visual arts and poetry. The work continued in 9 sections. In one of them, dedicated to the discussion of the issues of reality construction and language, it was talked about post-war Lithuanian linguistics (D. Mikulėnienė), the picture of people’s good, happy life created in Soviet publications (A. Gritėnienė), the campaign of Lithuanianization of interwar Lithuanian surnames and its purpose (D. Mačiulis), the creation of the Lithuanian world in „Auszra“ (A. Martišiūtė-Linartienė). In the section on the linguistic and cultural integration of immigrants and national minorities, the importance of easy-to-understand language for a certain part of society (L. Vilkaitė-Lozdienė), how Lithuanianness is understood by immigrants (A. Peccini), how Venezuelans living in Lithuania evaluate the Lithuanian language teaching program for their linguistic integration in Lithuania (Y. Starodub and M. I. De Potestad), the expression of personal identity in language was discussed, based on the results of the research of national minorities (Polish and Russian) in Lithuanian schools (A. Tamulionienė), attention was drawn to Lithuanian language teaching problems faced by Lithuanian teachers working in national minority schools (S. Vaičiakauskienė). In the section dedicated to the language of the media: propaganda, myths and reality, the Latvian, Russian and English vocabulary used in propaganda was analyzed, reflections of fascism and liberalism in political narrative (A. Veisbergs), stylistic aspect — 44 comments published by Rimvydas Valatka during the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2022 (A. Aleksaitė), the image of disabled people in the Latvian media (V. Polinska and D. Liepa), the quality of the Latvian language in social media (L. Lauze). In the section of language and social development, reports were read on the language of the periodical “Auszra”, its dialect and orthography (J. Venckienė), lexical features of undeveloped language of children aged 5-6 years (L. Kamandulytė-Merfeldienė), concept of literacy of Lithuanian as a mother tongue education programs and textbooks for primary school in the 18 Soviet and present periods (R. Čičirkaitė), linguistic beliefs of users related to the understanding of language value – the experience of the European Union and the Republic of India was compared (V. Požarnova). The section on language policy and language ideology discussed the concept of language correctness and functioning in the State Language Act, the relationship of language correctness and functionality with various areas of public language use (R. Miliūnaitė), how Lithuanian and other language educational policies reflect ideologies affecting education, which shape the content, values and state identity of Lithuanian as an object of teaching and learning, and determine sociocultural changes in society (N. Poderienė), as well as the paradox when declaring that Lithuanian is a value to be preserved and cherished, the aim is to change its structure according to the model of other, essentially completely structurally foreign, languages (V. Meiliūnaitė), and the transliteration of real words from foreign languages into Lithuanian was discussed. (K. Garšva). In the section on language variants, the following topics were discussed: the identity of the inhabitants of South-East Lithuania (N. Tuomienė), what phonetic and morphological features of place names were considered dialectal by teachers and foresters who filled out the questionnaires in the 1930s, what principles they applied when writing place names in common language and what reasons could have led to their choice (D. Tamulaitienė), the dialectal differentiation of Northern Žemaites from the point of view of representatives of the Kretingos and Telšiai patarmies border (S. Vyniautaitė), the true phonetic, morphological and other characteristics of the Žaslių, Paparčių and Kaugonių schnecks (A. Leskauskaitė). The section on the semantic level of language in contemporary society raised the question of what and how is speculated – how the meaning of the Lithuanian verb spekuliuoti changes and what influences the change (A. Gaidienė), the diversity of the nomination and motivation of the names of chicken, chicken, cock was presented not only in onomastologic, semantic, but also in ethnolinguistic aspects (Ž. Šalaviejūtė), the field study of associations of the word daughter (S. Papaurėlytė-Klovienė), the linguistic-cultural component of Ukrainian equivalents in the bilingual “Dictionary of Lithuanian-Ukrainian languages” (S. Hrycenko), what linguistic means and aspects are used to realize conceptual metaphors revealing dehumanization MAN – RAW MATERIAL (FOOD) (E. Liparte), the wrong interpretation of idioms in translations from English, French into Latvian (E. Kirsakmene), the image of Latvian in contemporary Lithuanian texts (E. Kirsakmene). (V. Chizhik-Prokasheva). In the section dedicated to the issues of various linguistic domains, the participants discussed the perceptive study of Lithuanian sonates, when the sonates are recognized only based on the spectrum of the consonant itself (J. Urbanavičienė), based on legends about King Arthur, the participants discussed the prosodic means of legends and their characteristics, which can influence the subconscious of the addressee and convey the emotional and pragmatic load of the text (L. Taranenko), the means of language by which interlocutors of different sociocultural groups express the act of prohibition in English (O. Isniuk), as well as the communication strategies and hierarchical complexes of verbal and nonverbal means that help the charismatic speaker in invariant communication situations to maximize the pragmatic potential of the language: to convey his vision and message to the audience, to influence it, to establish an emotional connection with the audience (M. Boichenko), the productivity of work based on the data of the United Lithuanian Textbook (J. Pakerys, V. Dadurkevičius and A. Navickaitė-Klišauskienė). In the Language and Identity section, the participants shared their thoughts on whether (and how) the big city changes the images of dialects (D. Aliūkaitė and A. Čižikaitė), on the correlation of the sizes of the Southern Samogitian communities of Raseiniai and their stability or dynamism with the development of the settlement infrastructure (D. Dambrauskienė), on the competition between Polish and Lithuanian languages in the 20th century. BC–XXI a. In the section of word formation, a trial version of the list of prepositional nouns and their base words was (D. Valentukevičienė). 19 At the closing session, the conference participants listened to M. Kasner’s presentation “Speaking the urban space: Lukiškių Square and Warsaw’s Pilsudski Square”, two panel presentations were also presented, and a discussion was held on “Language Shaping Today’s Reality: Relations, Differences, Trends”. 2024 29th International Scientific Conference “Oral and Written Language: Synchronicity and Diachronicity” “The 29th conference was organized in the spirit of Jan Jablonski’s research: it was invited to focus on oral and written language from a synchronic and diachronic perspective. Jonas Jablonskis emphasized the importance of living, “people’s language”, based on which he provided language norms and created new words. The conference repeatedly emphasized that the study of spoken language, its relationship with written language is still relevant to this day. The 29th conference was organized in the spirit of Jan Jablonski’s research: it was invited to focus on spoken and written language from a synchronous and diachronic perspective. The conference repeatedly emphasized that the study of spoken language, its relationship with written language remains relevant to this day” (JasionytėMikučionienė 2024: 30). The event was attended by over 50 scientists from Lithuania and foreign countries. A total of 51 oral statements were made; In addition to the plenary sessions, the work took place both days in the sections: Dialectology and Phonology, Word formation, Ancient writing and language development, Linguistic attitudes, Language and identity, and Language variants. In the plenary sessions of the first day, P. U. Dini gave a presentation entitled “The verbal word in the written text: Lutheran concepts and Baltic translations”, A. Kalnača presented a report on the usage of vocative forms in Latvian and the relationship of usage variants to the norm, in the evening session – reports on the application of machine learning in historical sociolinguistic research (Ch. Schneider) and on the expressions of verbal language in Latvian and Lithuanian place names and personal names dictionaries (L. Balode). In the section of dialectology and phonetics, the following topics were discussed: the systems of deyctive pronouns in the Skuodas dialect (G. Judžentytė-Šinkūnienė), K. Būga’s letters to J. Gerulis and J. Gerulis’ letters to J. Būgiene and the administration of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lithuania already after K. Būga’s death (D. Mikulėnienė), the reasons for the movement of the communities of the southern Žemaičių Varniai points of the “Lithuanian Language Atlas” in the geographical space (D. Dambrauskienė), the trends of the grammatical variantity of the verb in the versed dialectic grapholects, the comparison of the similarities and differences of the variantity of the verb forms recorded in poems of the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 21st century (A. Balčiūnienė), the factors determining the length of vowels and their interactional, hierarchical relationships (J. Urbanavičienė), the relationships of the factors affecting the formative structure of vowels, the results of the exploratory study of long and short vowels in the common Lithuanian language (E. Švageris), the length of consonants in the Latvian language (I. Indričāne and S. Čeirāne), the variants of pronunciation of verbs with the suffix -uoti in Lithuanian dialects, based on the “Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language” (S. Lukšaitė-Šinkūnienė). Ramona). presented, compiled using the material of the United Lithuanian Language Textbook (J. Pakerys, V. Dadurkevičius and A. Navickaitė-Klišauskienė), data from the analysis of the German part of the Septilingual Dictionary of nouns and their Lithuanian equivalents (D. Jarmalavičius and J. Pukevičiūtė), atypical submorphemic formation in Lithuanian neology (G. Brazaitytė), semantic distance of synonymous terms (A. Mitkevičienė), models of adjective formation with neo-, ultra-, mega-, hyperand super-Latvian (D. Deksne), relationships of some verbs with prepositions and adverbs in Latvian (I. Auziņa), studies of spoken language in Latvia from a sociolinguistic point of view and their meaning (L. Lauze). Questions of origin and conjugation of interjectional and sta stem verbs of short vocalism in Lithuanian language with the root in in the section of Old Writing and Language Development 20 (D. Pakalniškienė), Kiprijonas Lukauskas’s “Historia labay grazi” and its translation source (18th century) (J. Pajėdienė), textological features of the pericope “Atvelykio skaitymas” (K. Kazarinova), the Prussian ethnonime “Prezzun” and the manuscript in which it was recorded (D. Ardoino), possibilities of automatic searching for sources in early Lutheran texts in Lithuanian (L. Buazu), annotation of verb personification types in the text of old Lithuanian Lutheran postils (PosTiMe) (M. Drach), the Romanian language spoken by the Greek minority in Ukraine by the Sea of Azov (J. Lebetska), the Basel colophon compared with its Prague contemporary – the Prague colophon of the second half of the 14th century (I. Lemeškin). In the section on linguistic attitudes, the following topics were discussed: language attitudes towards Lithuanian language expressed in internet news portals (E. Gudavičienė), attitudes of Lithuanian people towards Russian language in the face of war (I. Hilbig and S. Ivanovaitė), language attitudes of students towards their native language (Chinese Mandarin and Lithuanian) and English (K. JakaitėBulbukienė), to what extent, from the point of view of Lithuanian residents, Lithuanian and English languages are considered appropriate in various areas of life (business, education, services) (L. Vilkienė), the aesthetic value of regional variants was discussed (D. Aliūkaitė and A. Čižikaitė), images of dialectal language of the young eastern Highlanders – Anykščiai, Kupiškis and Utena (L. Brazaitienė), a holistic semantic study of the thematic subgroup of somatic hands of the northern Žemaitijos dialect was presented. (J. L. and J. L.). The concepts examined in the section on Languages and Identity are PAKANTA (I. Smetonienė), CITIZENSHIP (M. Smetona), MOTHER (S. Papaurėlytė-Klovienė), MIEŽIS (V. Sakalauskienė). Two reports on terminology were read: G. E. Klimenko — on the problems of the use of esoteric terminology in the pastoral care of the Catholic Church in Lithuania and E. Liparte — on causal nouns with components kovid-, covid-, koron-, coron-, kroņ-, karantin-, pandem in Lithuanian and Latvian. In the section on language variants, the interaction of dialectal and non-dialectal language in Rumšiškės (Ž. Šidlauskas), multilingualism in Latgale, its mechanisms of existence, maintenance and disappearance (P. Grablunas), whether students in grades 10-12 of selected secondary schools in Kaunas district distinguish between extended and secondary grades, whether they distinguish between these two cases of separation (E. Rimkutė), how and why students in grades 1-4 write mainly based on verbal language (R. Čičirkaitė), the interaction of standard and verbal language based on the language of one of the Latvian dialects (Malen) (D. Markus), expressions of verbal language in J. K. Rowling’s book “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” and its translations into Finnish, Swedish and Faroese (D. Ebner), how elements of verbal language, prosodic and paralinguistic signs are encoded in Latvian texts (S. Ķauķīte), the contacts between Chinese and Vietnamese languages (M. Schwarz) were discussed. In the closing plenary session, A. Cerri analyzed the category of definiteness and its expression in ancient Lithuanian and Latvian texts, V. Šeferis examined German autographs of Kristijonas Donelaitis, J. Niewulis-Grablunas in his presentation “Sayed – written” talked about the language of the Lithuanians of Punskas-Seinai-Suvalkai region, most of whom are Dzūkai, especially its written form, and cases of language mixing. 2025 30th International Scientific Conference “Language and Linguistics: Continuity of Tradition and New Directions” According to the announcement of the organizers, the aim of this conference is to discuss the connections between tradition and the present, to present new interpretations of language phenomena related to current sociocultural changes and new theoretical approaches to language research. In fact, the conference repeats the themes and problems of previous conferences and introduces new directions – artificial intelligence and language research. 60 papers of Lithuanian and foreign researchers from different countries 21 of the world were read. The presentations of the first plenary session were an introduction to the conference: J. Venckienė spoke about the Lithuanian common language in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as Jablonskis’ contribution to this process of common language formation, K. Rutkovska, based on her ethnolinguistic research, provided relevant insights into the relationship between language and culture and the research of this interface. In the morning plenary session of the second day, the topics of typology (M. Gordon), metaphor theory (G. Steen), and the place of large language models (LLM) in the history of semantics (D. Geeraerts) were discussed. In the section devoted to the importance of Jonas Jablonskis for the Lithuanian language and state, reports were read on the parallels between J. Jablonskis and K. Būga in early 20th-century Lithuanian studies (D. Mikulėnienė), the importance of J. Jablonskis’s cartography for the preparation of the main Lithuanian explanatory dictionaries (V. Sakalauskienė), the relationship between J. Jablonskis and P. Būtėnas (L. Lapinskienė). In the section on language system and usage (syntax), specific language issues are discussed: the conjugability of the verbs diskutuoti, disputuoti (L. Vaičiulytė-Semėnienė), the valency of the noun pyktis (V. Čižik-Prokaševa), the characteristics of the connective connection in Lithuanian language syntax (D. Šveikauskienė). In the branch of phonetics and phonology – acoustic signs of the ending of phrases in read and spontaneous speech (E. Kalašinskaitė-Zavišienė), phonetic expression of general Lithuanian accent under different intonation conditions (E. Švageris), methodology of experimental-phonetic study of public speech of leaders (Mr. Boichenko). The reports of the section of words and dictionaries examined changes in meanings in the “Dictionary of the Common Lithuanian Language” (A. Gritėnienė), the traps of term definitions in the same dictionary (A. Gaidienė), the meanings of animal names (Ž. Šalaviejūtė), the peculiarities of the Lithuanian language neologisms (R. Miliūnaitė), the usage of the word “parking” and its equivalents in real estate advertisements (A. Aleksaitė), the pragmatism of politeness in bilingual dictionaries. (E. Sidorovich). The Language and Identity section discussed the vitality of Lithuanian language in pupils’ linguistic environment (A. Tamulionienė), words denoting food in teaching Polish as a foreign language (M. Hartenberger), linguistic and cultural studies (D. Gocół). The presentation of ethnolinguistic research has established itself in J. Jablonski’s conference. This time the concepts FATHER (S. Papaurėlytė-Klovienė), TIME in systematic data and paramies (I. Snukiškienė), the image of CHURCH in the autobiographical narratives of the inhabitants of the region of Šalčininkai (V. Švaikovskaja), WORK as a value and culture in the language of the Žemaites (based on sources of the first half of the 19th century and the second half of the 20th century) (J. Pajėdienė) were presented. The section of dialectology and geolinguistics focuses on dialectal aspects: the characteristics of the dialect (incompleteness) complex are discussed (D. Aliūkaitė), the aspects of locality of street names are examined (the case of Rumšiškės) (Ž. Šidlauskas), the dialectal inhomogeneity of southern Žemaites Varniai in manuscript sources of the 1960s-1970s (S. Vyniautaitė), the change of lexicon in zones of active linguistic contacts (A. Leskauskaitė). On the second day, in the same section, guests presented their papers: T. Król (Flemish dialect or Wymysorys language?), K. Konczewska (Combining ethnographic and dialectological methods in the study of the Baltic-Slavic border region), M. Jankowiak (Adaptation of Baltic borrowings in Belarusian dialects in Lithuania), K. Zagłoba (Is there room for local dialect in museums?). The reports of the section on the history of languages and interaction focused on appellative toponyms in a multicultural region (P. Skorupa), conflicts over the use of Lithuanian and Polish languages in Catholic churches in the Republic of Lithuania (1918–1940) (D. Mačiulis), Baltic toponyms in the Dnieper River region (A. Iliadi). In the section dedicated to the functioning of language in society, attention is focused on the standardization of the Lithuanian language on the border of Lesser Lithuania in the beginning of the 20th century, based on the periodical “Svečias” (G. Judžentytė-Šinkūnienė), multimodal argumentation in Lithuanian literature. 22 social advertising (E. Gabrėnaitė and V. Nausėdaitė), the subconscious potential of emotional appeal of public speech (L. Taranenko and A. Kalyta). The presentations of two sections (Language data accumulation and analysis, Artificial intelligence and language research) focused on innovations and future research: A. Utka spoke about the latest projects in Lithuanian universities aimed at enriching Lithuanian language resources, M. Žemrietė introduced the work on a more accurate morphological annotator; V. Zubaitienė, I. Rizgelienė and N. Maliukevičius presented researches of propaganda texts, J. Kovalevskaitė – the use of collocations in illustrating word usage in explanatory dictionaries. J. Kapočiūtė-Dzikienė, T. Bergmanis and M. Pinnis talked about how large language models understand small languages (Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian), M. Glebus told about how large language models can be used to detect new words and whether quotation marks influence this, J. Mandravickaitė examined the relationship between disinformation and reliable news, G. ValūnaitėOleškevičienė, R. Žiūrienė and S. Kim presented the attitude of students to the use of artificial intelligence in university studies. The report of the closing session reviews 30 conferences of J. Jablonskis (I. Smetonienė). Looking back to 1993, we can see how from a collegial exchange of ideas about linguistics and research, we have gone on to large international conferences, where theoretical works and practical research of importance to the world linguistics are discussed, and participants in the presentations are received from distant countries of the world. At the beginning of the plenary session of the 25th Jablonski Conference I said that “today Jablonski has travelled to many countries of the world, he probably did not expect such recognition while he was alive”. Now I say – he has travelled to many countries of the world and his name is known to world scientists, I doubt not to students and to the wider public. Undoubtedly, the fact that articles prepared on the basis of the reports were published in „Kalbos kultūra“, later — in „Bendrinė kalba“, in the electronic scientific journal „Lietuvių kalba“ and elsewhere, contributed to the dissemination of information. In 2025, the Cambridge Scholars Publishing published a collection of articles entitled „Language Variation, Change and Standardisation“ (edited by G. Judžentytė-Šinkūnienė). 30 conferences is not the end, researchers of the General Language Research Center of the Institute of Lithuanian Language and the Department of Lithuanian Language of the Institute of Applied Linguistics of the Faculty of Philology of Vilnius University are determined to continue organizing J. Jablonskis conferences, to amaze every year with the variety of topics and interesting researches. LITTERACY AND SOURCES Aleksandravičiūtė Skaistė 2009: The Seventeenth Jon Jablonskis Conference. – Language Culture 82, 351–354. Aleksandravičiūtė Skaistė 2010: Jonas Jablonskis and the centennial of the common Lithuanian language. – Native Language 11, 20–22. Bertašavičiūtė Rima 2007: The 15th Jon Jablonskis Conference. – Language Culture 80, 192–194. 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