37.1703, Confs: Workshop at the 31st Jonas Jablonskis Conference: Compounds and Compounding in Baltic Languages (Lithuania)

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Date: 06-May-2026
From: Lina Inčiuraitė-Noreikienė [lina.inciuraite at flf.vu.lt]
Subject: Workshop at the 31st Jonas Jablonskis Conference: Compounds and Compounding in Baltic Languages

Workshop at the 31st Jonas Jablonskis Conference: Compounds and
Compounding in Baltic Languages
Theme: Compounds and Compounding in Baltic Languages

Date: 01-Oct-2026 - 02-Oct-2026
Location: Vilnius University, Lithuania
Contact: Lina Inčiuraitė-Noreikienė
Contact Email: lina.inciuraite at flf.vu.lt
Meeting URL:
http://www.jablonskio-konferencija.flf.vu.lt/en/about-conference/current-call/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories;
Morphology; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 31-May-2026

In recent years, while preparing various digital Latvian and
Lithuanian language resources (corpora, databases, dictionaries,
wordnets, etc., e.g., Miliūnaitė, Aleksaitė 2011; Rimkutė et al. 2013;
Dadurkevičius 2020a, 2020b; Andronova et al. 2022; Levāne-Petrova et
al. 2023; see also LatvianWordNet https://wordnet.ailab.lv/; Kalnača,
Pakalne 2026), the issue of compounds in both Baltic languages – their
structural types, semantics and word formation models, as well as
orthography issues – has become relevant. Although compounds have
traditionally been considered in the grammars of both languages (among
others, Ambrazas 1997, 2006; Nītiņa, Grigorjevs 2013; Kalnača, Lokmane
2021), and special studies have been devoted to them both
synchronically and diachronically (e.g., Larsson 2002; Urbutis 2009;
Inčiuraitė-Noreikienė 2015; Bukelskytė-Čepelė 2017; Stundžia,
Jarmalavičius 2019), the rapid development of the language vocabulary,
often based directly on the formation of compounds as an effective
resource, has highlighted the need to pay attention to this area of
word formation.
Therefore, the section “Compounds and compounding in Baltic languages”
is intended as a discussion forum in which various theoretical and
practical issues related to compounds would be examined, both in
structural and semantic aspects, and based on the use of various
corpora and database materials. Defining compounds has frequently
proven problematic due to challenges in establishing clear criteria
(among others, Dressler 2006; Lieber, Štekauer 2009; Ralli 2013; Bauer
2017). Although Haspelmath (2025) proposed criteria intended to be
applicable across language types in a uniform way, confusion still
remains, particularly in cross-linguistic comparisons (see also Booij
2007).
Our special focus is on the Baltic languages (Latvian and Lithuanian),
but submissions are also welcome for the analysis of other languages.
Relevant topics and areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
1.      Synchronic and diachronic models of compounds in Latvian and
Lithuanian
2.      Compounds and analysis of corpus and/or database data
3.      Word-medial elements of compounds, their understanding and
classification
4.      Boundary of word phrases and compounds in written and spoken
language
5.      Combinations of inherited and borrowed lexemes in compounds
6.      Combinations of lexical and function words in compounds
7.      Compounds and affixation, compounds as a basis for further
derivations
8.      Peculiarities of the semantics of compounds
9.      Syntactic structure and headedness of compounds
Discussing these topics will not only contribute to the theoretical
and descriptive study of compounding in Baltic and other languages but
also help better understand compounding and how it interacts with
other word-formation processes.
Please submit your abstract using the link below:
http://www.jablonskio-konferencija.flf.vu.lt/en/submission-of-proposals/
Full paper presentations: 30 minutes (20 minutes + 10 minutes for
questions)
The conference will be held on 1–2 October 2026. Abstracts are due by
31 May 2026. The working languages are Lithuanian and English.
Workshop Organisers:
Andra Kalnača (University of Latvia)
Lina Inčiuraitė-Noreikienė (Vilnius University)
Daiki Horiguchi (Kyoto University)
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Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos institutas.
Andronova, E., Spektors, A., Vanags, P., Baltiņa, M., Trumpa, A.,
Trumpa, E., Grūzītis, N., Siliņa Piņķe, R., Frīdenberga, A.,
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