Rita Miliūnaitė. Variable and new phenomena of contemporary Lithuanian at the start of the 21st century: systemization and trends of change

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Rita Miliūnaitė. Variable and new phenomena of contemporary Lithuanian at the start of the 21st century: systemization and trends of change
Monograph. Vilnius: Institute of the Lithuanian Language, 2022. ISBN 978-609-411-322-2, doi.org/10.35321/e-pub.42.lietuviu-kalbos-pokyciai.

The monograph addresses the issue of variation and innovation in the current public Lithuanian language. The most important lexical and grammatical phenomena (norm violations and norm variations) recorded in the sources of recommendations for the use of the common Lithuanian language since the end of the 20th century are systemised. The compiled inventory was supplemented with the data on the usage of the public Lithuanian language at the beginning of the 21st century. The nature of the changes in the phenomena of the investigated language and the most general directions of the changes were identified during this period.

A paradigm of the standardisation of the Lithuanian standard language has been established, which allows us to look at the changes in this national language in the context of the dynamics of the European standard languages and to highlight the directions of change on an even larger scale. It is assumed that, like other European standard languages, Lithuanian is going through a period of post-standardisation at the beginning of the 21st century due to a variety of external factors (globalisation, changing ideological paradigms, online-use and mediatisation, increased language contact and growing migration). The hypothesis of an emerging sub-standard of the Lithuanian language and its’ relationship with the standard language opens the way for further research on the interaction and language contact between the standard language and other varieties of the national language.