Kalbos istorijos ir dialektologijos problemos 2

The reviewed publication consists of five large parts. The first part “The 50th anniversary of the Language History and Dialectology Department of the Institute of the Lithuanian Language” by Danguolė Mikulėnienė gives an overview of the history of the department. A bundle of letters by Juozas Senkus – one of the founders of the department – prepared by his daughter Rasa Senkutė-Kašėtienė is published, including the letters written to his sister’s family in exile as well as those received from prominent Baltic and Slavic linguists. The second part “Traditions and prospects” discusses the history of the formation of Lithuanian adjectives, overviews the classification of Lithuanian dialects by Kazimieras Jaunius, and newly interprets the etymology of the word dausos [heaven] proposed by Kazimieras Būga. The third part “Problems of Baltic research” focuses on various problems of Baltic research; the fourth part explores the problems of the research of the old writings – the issues of etymologies, editions of the old manuscript texts and possible origins of Lithuanian words. The last part “Dialects and their research” discusses Lithuanian and Latvian dialects. According to the reviewer, the collection presents many fundamental researches of Baltic linguistics, a more detailed discussion whereof requires diligent work of several years. Therefore, the review briefly reports the key aspects of each article and repeats the major statements and conclusions