Establishment of the Concept sąjūdis in Lithuanian Cover Image

Sąvokos sąjūdis įsišaknijimas lietuvių kalboje
Establishment of the Concept sąjūdis in Lithuanian

Author(s): Veslava Čižik-Prokaševa
Subject(s): Language studies, Morphology, Semantics, Computational linguistics
Published by: Lietuvių Kalbos Institutas
Keywords: formations of the word sąjūdis; suffixal derivatives; prefixal derivatives; compound words; level of word-formation;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study is to analyse the growing relevance of the concept sąjūdis and its spread in contemporary Lithuanian. By referring to the Corpus of Contemporary Lithuanian Language developed by the Centre of Computational Linguistics of Kaunas Vytautas Magnus University, it was established that 28 words that were formed from the noun sąjūdis directly or from the formations of this word are used in Lithuanian: 14 nouns, 12 adjectives, one verb, and one adverb. These words are discussed from the perspective of word formation in the article by providing their meanings, forms, frequency of usage, and sources. For the sake of comparison, examples found through the web search engine Google are provided.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 79
  • Page Range: 144-176
  • Page Count: 33
  • Language: Lithuanian