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During the last decades, there has been considerable interest in cognitive sciences and in opportunities provided by them to tackle linguistic problems. Most attention has been devoted to semantic aspects of study: 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. The semantic analysis and search for the motivation of meaning has prevailed in works focusing on Baltic languages, especially dealing with space and time expressed by cases and prepositions (see, for example, Apse 2011; Šeškauskienė & Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė 2015; Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė et al. 2019; Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė & Šeškauskienė 2021), verbs and their prefixes (Mikulskas 2005; Šeškauskienė 2021). Research into inflecting languages has served as the basis for verifying certain methodological issues, 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 contrasted with other languages to submit their abstracts for presentations in the section. The cognitive approach could be based on corpora, psycholinguistic experiments, or other methodologies. We also kindly invite researchers working on linguistic semantics in 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
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