Projects and programmes

The research staff of the Institute currently works on the following projects:

 

Baltic and Nordic Parts of the European Open Linguistic Infrastructure (META-NORD), a project funded by the European Commission.

Project lead: Doc. Dr. Elena Jolanta Zabarskaitė.

 

About the project

 



 

Department of Language History and Dialectology

 

  • Setting up the Database of Old Writings (Senųjų raštų duomenų bazės kūrimas), started in 1995, manager: Dr Habil. Ona Aleknavičienė, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
  • Atlas of Baltic Languages (Baltų kalbų atlasas), started in 2007, Institute of the Lithuanian Language and Institute of the Latvian Language at the University of Latvia, manager: Prof. Danguolė Mikulėnienė, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
  • Lithuanian Dialects for School (Lietuvių kalbos tarmės mokyklai), started in 2004, manager: Dr Asta Leskauskaitė, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
  • Corpus of Dialects (Tarmių tekstynas), started in 2005, manager: Prof. Danguolė Mikulėnienė, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

 

Department of Language Culture

 

  • Corpus of Spoken Lithuanian (Šnekamosios kalbos tekstynas), 2007–2008, a joint project with Vytautas Magnus University, manager at ILL: Dr Loreta Vaicekauskienė.
  • Cities and Languages (Miestai ir kalbos), 2007–2009, a joint project with Vilnius University, manager at ILL: Dr Loreta Vaicekauskienė.
  • Research into the Usage of New Borrowings in 1998-2008 (Naujųjų svetimžodžių vartosenos 1998–2008 m. tyrimas), 2007–2010, manager: Dr Loreta Vaicekauskienė, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Centre of Lexicography

 

  • Digitalisation of the Core Card Index of the Dictionary of Lithuanian and Setting up a Database (Lietuvių kalbos žodyno pagrindinės kartotekos skaitmeninimas ir duomenų bazės kūrimas), started in 2006, a joint project with Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, manager: Dr Ritutė Petrokienė, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
  • Setting up a National Database of Language Resources (Nacionalinės kalbos išteklių duomenų bazės kūrimas), started in 2005, manager: Assoc. Prof. Dr Jolanta Zabarskaitė, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
  • Collecting the Lexicon of the Lithuanian Language (Lietuvių kalbos leksikos kaupimas), started in 1996, managers Dr Ritutė Petrokienė and Dr Gertrūda Naktinienė, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

 

Centre of Terminology

 

  • In 2005-2006 the Centre of Terminology participated in the EC eCONTENT Project EUROTERMBANK devoted to the collection of European terminological resources and jointly implemented by terminological institutions. The Project resulted in a terminology portal in eight languages (www.eurotermbank.com). It is a European term bank linked to other resources of terms. Project manager: Dr Albina Auksoriūtė, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
  • AVANTEKSTAS, a Dictionary of Lithuanian Terms of Literary Criticism (Lietuviškų literatūros mokslo terminų žodynas – AVANTEKSTAS), started in 2007, a joint project with the Faculty of Philology of Vilnius University; manager: Asta Mickevičienė, junior research fellow, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
  • Dictionary of Terms of Journalism (Žurnalistikos terminų žodynas), a joint project with the Faculty of Communication of Vilnius University, started in 2006, manager: Dr Albina Auksoriūtė, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

 

Department of Onomastics

 

  • International Project Hydronymia Europaea, implemented in co-operation with the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz (Germany) and the Department of German Philology of Vilnius Pedagogical University, manager: Prof. Dr Habil. G. Blažienė This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , 2005-2006.
  • Setting up a Geoinformational Database of Toponyms (Vietovardžių geoinformacinės duomenų bazės kūrimas), started in 2007, implemented in co-operation with the Institute of Geology and Geography, manager: Dr Laimutis Bilkis, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
  • Collecting and Computer-aided Processing of Ethnic Toponyms of Peripheral Regions of Lithuania (Istorinių etninių (Lietuvos paribio ir užribio) vietovardžių rinkimas ir kompiuterinis jų tvarkymas), started in 2005, manager: Alma Ragauskaitė.
  • Lituanica: GDL written heritage of ethnic and confessional minorities (Lituanika: LDKetnokonfesiniųmažumų raštijos paveldas), started in 2007, manager: Nadiežda Morozova, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .