16 articles in this issue
Laimute Balode
SummaryA metaphor – a term or phrase applied to something which it is not literally applicable to – usually constructs an analogy between two things. This creates associative perception. There are quite a few Latvian toponyms as well as hydronyms made on ... see more
Pauls Balodis
SummaryThe focus of the study is on Latvian personal names, which are coined on the the basis of Latvian apellative lexis. Personal names coined from the lexemes of the respective language, i.e., unborrowed anthroponyms, were chosen for comparison (in the... see more
Maija Baltina,Daina Vucane
SummaryA dictionary of a writer’s language is a vocabulary that has been methodically collected, analyzed and commented upon and represents the language as used by a particular author. The existence of such dictionaries indicates the level of the specific... see more
Ojars Bušs,Renate Silina-Pinke
SummaryPurgailis is a quite common Latvian surname, Purgaili is a frequently used place-name (mostly a name of a farmstead). The names are widely associated with Latv. purvs ‘a marsh’ and gailis ‘a cock’, however, in Latvian there is no common name *purga... see more
Genovaite Kaciuškiene
SummaryAccording to the material of the “Corpus of the Spoken Lithuanian Language” (http://donelaitis.vdu.lt/~andrius/SKT5/5SKT-paiesk.php), dialectal phonetic forms marked as @d in the corpus are analysed. The most frequent dialectal forms recorded in th... see more
Ieva Kupla
SummaryThis article describes one of the fundamental problems of lexicography: the representation of polysemy in dictionaries. Often the number of word meanings differs in explanatory dictionaries. For instance, the number of meanings of the verb krist ‘f... see more
Linda Lauze
SummaryTo this day the structural formation of wishes in Latvian has been described in the chapter “Optative Sentences” of books on Latvian syntax in which examples were mainly taken from written texts. The present paper focuses on the analysis of spoken ... see more
Kristine Levane-Petrova
SummaryRecently The Balanced Corpus of Modern Latvian (~3.5 million running words) has been created in the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science (IMCS) (see http://www.korpuss.lv). The Corpus has been compiled from printed and electronic materials... see more
Dace Markus
SummaryThe author of the article analyses the differences in phonetics between the deep Latgalian (the so-called Malenian) variants of the High Latvian dialect, which is spoken in North-East Vidzeme, and other deep Latgalian variants. The most characteris... see more
Kornelija Pokrotniece
ZusammenfassungDas Vaterunser oder Ta sveta lugšana ist der älteste lettische Text, dessen erste Niederschriften aus dem 16. Jh. stammen. Nach der Meinung einiger Forscher stammen einige von ihnen sogar aus dem Ende des 15. Jhs. Obwohl das Vaterunser... see more
Krystyna Rutkowska,Zofia Sawaniewska-Mochowa
ŽMOGU APIBUDINANTYS LIETUVIŠKI SKOLINIAI LIETUVOS LENKU TARMESE. SEMANTINIS IR ETNOLINGVISTINIS ASPEKTASSantraukaLietuvos lenku tarmese i žmogaus semantini lauka patenkantys lituanizmai sudaro apie 24 procentus skoliniu iš lietuviu kalbos. Ypac gausus emo... see more
Baiba Saulite,Gunta Nešpore
CONTENT WORDS IN THE FORMAL ANALYSIS OF LATVIANSummaryTo characterize morphological features of each word in a text, a set of morphological features for Latvian has been defined. It describes grammatical categories and their possible values characteristi... see more
Inguna Skadina,Madars Virza,Lauma Pretkalnina
DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH-LATVIAN STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM: METHODS, RESOURCES AND FIRST RESULTSSummaryThis paper presents research and development of English-Latvian Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) prototypes for legal domain. Several me... see more
Liga Vogina
SummaryThe deep sentence structure is reflected in the surface sentence structure. There is no doubt that the actor is an important participant in the semantics of the sentence, and the patient is important in the transitive verb argument structure. Other... see more
Ieva Zuicena
THE QUESTION OF ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES IN EXPLANATORY DICTIONARIES AND THE DICTIONARY OF CONTEMPORARY LATVIAN LANGUAGESummaryThere are two kinds of illustrative examples that are used in explanatory dictionaries: quotations and combination of words (phrase... see more