Lietuvių kalbos leksikos norminimo raida
On the development of standardisation of Lithuanian lexis

Summary/Abstract: The paper gives an overview of circumstances of compiling the Dictionary of Contemporary Lithuanian (DCL; Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas) and the standardisation of lexis in its different editions. The idea of compiling a dictionary for practical purposes belongs to Kazimieras Būga (1879-1924). However, due to his early death the compilation of the dictionary was suspended and only resumed by Juozas Balčikonis (1885-1969) who headed the editorial board of the Dictionary of Lithuanian. Its manuscript was finalised after WW2 at the Institute of the Lithuanian Language. Manuscript was discussed at the Department of Social Sciences of the then Lithuanian Academy of Sciences in 1948. The Department advised to amend the Dictionary by adding the materials from Soviet newspapers and literature and by explicating the terms in the way they were explicated in dictionaries of the Russian There was an editorial board set up for editing the Dictionary. J. Kruopas (1908-1975) was appointed as its editor-in-chief. The Dictionary of Contemporary Lithuanian was published in 1954. To refer to the normative derivative variants of the lexis, synonyms and equivalents replacing loanwords the authors used the abbreviation žr. More attention to language standardisation was devoted in the second edition of the DCL (1972), which was published when the political censorship was not so heavy. The edition amply uses the abbreviation ntk. for unacceptable loanwords. Moreover, the dictionary was revised by lexicographers; as a result, prefixed verbs were given in separate entries. In the third edition of the DCL which was published after the restoration of Lithuania’s independence (1993) the evaluation of loanwords was even stricter.

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