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During the last few decades, there has been considerable interest in cognitive sciences and in the opportunities they provide to tackle linguistic problems. Semantic aspects of study have received the most attention: the polysemy of affixes and ‘small words’ (prepositions, particles); the meaning of individual lexemes, collocations, and sentences; discourse analysis; metaphor in different types of discourse; figurative language; etc. Semantic analysis and the search for the motivation of meaning has dominated in works focusing on Baltic languages, especially when dealing with space and time as expressed by cases and prepositions (see, for example, Apse 2011; Šeškauskienė & Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė 2015; Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė et al. 2019; Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė & Šeškauskienė 2021) or verbs and their prefixes (Mikulskas 2005; Šeškauskienė 2021). Research into inflected languages has served as the basis for verifying certain methodological issues, and there has been an ongoing discussion aimed at identifying language-specific methodologies (see, for example, Urbonaitė et al. 2019).
We invite all researchers interested in cognitively-oriented analyses of meaning, all whose work is linked to semantics in one or both Baltic languages or in the context of other languages, to submit their abstracts for presentations in this workshop. The cognitive approach could be based on corpora, psycholinguistic experiments, or other methodologies. We also kindly invite researchers working on linguistic semantics from a cross-disciplinary perspective. Papers focusing on methodological issues, such as adapting methodologies in the Baltic languages and launching new methodologies, are also welcome.
References
- Apse, Linda. 2011. Telpiskās nozīmes prievārdu semantika un leksikalizācijas kognitīvie aspekti latviešu valodā / Semantics of Latvian Spatial Prepositions and Aspects of their Lexicalisation. A PhD Thesis. Riga: University of Latvia. https://dspace.lu.lv/dspace/bitstream/handle/7/4773/28867-Linda_Apse_2011.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
- Mikulskas, Rolandas. 2005. Išilginių objektų predikacijos pobûdis. Subjektyvaus judėjimo sąvoka. Acta Linguistica Lituanica LII, 23–39. https://etalpykla.lituanistika.lt/fedora/objects/LT-LDB-0001:J.04~2005~1367151332957/datastreams/DS.002.0.01.ARTIC/content
- Šeškauskienė, Inesa. 2021. On the semantic motivation of some verbal prefixes in Lithuanian. In: Diego Ardoino and Adriano Cerri (eds). Intersezioni baltistiche. Studi e saggi. (Baltica Pisana Series). Novi Ligure: Joker. 55–83.
- Šeškauskienė, Inesa, Eglė Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė. 2015. On the polysemy of the Lithuanian UŽ: a cognitive perspective. The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication 10: 1-38. Kanzas: New Prairie Press. https://doi.org/dx.doi.org/10.4148/1944-3676.1101. https://newprairiepress.org/biyclc/vol10/iss1/9/
- Urbonaitė, Justina, Inesa Šeškauskienė, Jurga Cibulskienė. 2019. Linguistic metaphor identification in Lithuanian. In: Susan Nacey, Aletta Gesina Dorst, Tina Krennmayr, W. Gudrun Reijnierse (eds.). Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages. MIPVU around the world. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 159–181. https://doi.org/10.1075/celcr.22.08urb
- Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė Eglė, Jurģis Šķilters, Līga Zariņa, Nora Bērziņa 2019. Containment and support: Similarities and variation in Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian. Baltistica 54 (2), 205–255. https://doi.org/10.15388/baltistica.54.2.2386
- Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė, Eglė, Inesa Šeškauskienė. 2021. When the search domain is back region in Baltic: The Latvian aiz as compared to the Lithuanian už. In: Peter Arkadiev, Jurgis Pakerys, Inesa Šeškauskienė, and Vaiva Žeimantienė (eds.), Studies in Baltic and other Languages. A Festschrift for Axel Holvoet on the occasion of his 65th birthday (Vilnius University Open Series Vol. 16). Vilnius: Vilnius University Press. 433–466. https://doi.org/10.15388/SBOL.2021.24
Accepted papers:
- Anita Helviga, Diāna Laiveniece
Stabilitātes un mainīguma aspekts retorisko figūru jēdzieniskajā izpratnē un lietojumā - Domicelė Jonauskaitė
Lithuanian colour-emotion associations: A cross-cultural comparison with Latvia, Estonia, and other 34 nations - Samanta Kietytė
Priešdėlis per-: reikšmės ir jų motyvacija - Regina Kvašytė
Sākotnējo nozīmi zaudējusī latviešu radniecības leksika lietuviešu tulkojumos - Jūratė Lubienė, Dalia Pakalniškienė
Kūno dalių konceptualiųjų požymių reprezentacija leksikos sistemoje - Silvija Papaurėlytė-Klovienė
Žodžio miškas asociacijų laukas lietuvių kalbos pasaulėvaizdyje - Svetlana Polkovņikova
Vērtējuma kategorijas verbalizācija zinātniskajā diskursā - Ieva Stasiūnaitė
On the meaning of some prepositions in Lithuanian and English - Inesa Šeškauskienė
Prepositional polysemy revisited. The English against vs the Lithuanian prieš - Jurģis Šķilters, Līga Zariņa, Solvita Umbraško
Haptic and visual space in Latvian: Differences, discrepancies, and shared principles - Loreta Vaičiulytė Semėnienė
Violetinė spalva dabartinėje lietuvių kalboje - Jurģis Šķilters, Baiba Trinīte
Recognition accuracy of Latvian affective speech prosody units in different cultures - Eglė Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė
Motivation of prepositional polysemy: The case of Latvian PRET
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