Lithuanian dialectology profiles: problems and findings

The publication includes more than a dozen scientific articles on the periodization of Lithuanian dialectology (D. Mikulėnienė), the origins and evolution of dialectal network in Lithuania (V. Meiliūnaitė), the spectrum of experimental sound research (J. Jaroslavienė and R. Bakšienė), the features of Lithuanian accentual system (V. Ragaišienė), the development and future prospects of research on dialectal morphology (A. Leskauskaitė, G. Judžentytė-Šinkūnienė), the ethnolinguistic worldview and its analysis (V. Ragaišienė, A. Balčiūnienė and V. Meiliūnaitė), the cognitive studies of morphological categories (D. Kardelytė-Grinevičienė), the linguistic borrowing in peripheral sub-dialects (N. Tuomienė), the small language systems on the verge of extinction (D. Kiseliūnaitė), the application of dialectometric methods in studying Lithuanian language variants (A. Čepaitienė), and the progress of perceptual dialectology in Lithuania (D. Aliūkaitė, L. Brazaitienė). In other words, the aim of this selection is to review a wide range of language areas and the methods of study applied as well as to present both the traditional and the more recent trends and directions of dialectological research in Lithuania