Vocabulary of the sub-dialect of Sventaja consists of words from the standard Latvian, as well as dialectical vocabulary. There are answers on the issues from the programme of Latvian dialectical atlas (LVDA) analysed in the article discovering the changes or dynamics o...

This paper will survey the situation of Latvian classic Rudolfs Blaumanis' (1863-1908) reception in Lithuania from 1908 till 2012. The reception of Blaumanis in Lithuanian culture is not very wide. The paper will analyse the creative work of Blaumanis': prose, drama, po...

The article “Stage Direction in Lithuania in 1990-2000: the Development” overviews the development of Lithuanian theatre after restoring the independence till 2000. The author explicitly describes historic and cultural background where public and political events trigge...

The teaching neighbouring, i.e. Lithuanian and Latvian, languages as foreign languages on the territories of Latvia and Lithuania is the topic of this paper. The need to know (learn) the Latvian language for Lithuanians and the Lithuanian language for Latvians is recogn...

Article provides characteristics of Latvian and Lithuanian language in terms of their position in the world, the European Union and mutual neighbouring countries. Special attention is paid to the Language referendum held in Latvia in 18 February 2012 on the Latvian lang...

The article is dedicated to lexical borrowings from the Lithuanian language found in Rucava subdialect at the turn of 21st century. It also discusses phonetic, morphological, semantic and areal criteria for identifying Lithuanianisms, as well as cases when identificatio...

The aim of this research is to compare the terminology used in Latvian and Lithuanian to describe one of the so-called functional styles of language - the official style, and its sub-styles. The paper also analyses the perception of the blanket terms "stils/stilius" (La...

Rendering place names (names of towns, rivers, lakes) of Lithuania in Latvian has been investigated in both theoretical and practical aspects; however, the region of Northern Lithuania was chosen for the first attempt to review the usage of place names of a narrower ter...

Each nation characterizes with realities, reflecting certain specifics, expressed by proper nouns (personal names, place-names) and appellatives, registered in bilingual dictionaries. Scholars do not reach the agreement regarding the name of the layer of the spoken lexi...