Vilnius University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Vilnius University*

Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries

Edited by Daniël Van Olmen & Jolanta Šinkūnienė

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 325] 2021. | edited volume

The Middle Voice in Baltic

Edited by Axel Holvoet

Subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 5] 2020. | monograph

Intercultural Perspectives on Research Writing

Edited by Edited by Pilar Mur-Dueñas, and Jolanta Šinkūnienė

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching | Writing and literacy

[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 18] 2018. | edited volume

Copular Constructions in Lithuanian

Rolandas Mikulskas

Subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 4] 2017. xv, 280 pp. |

Passive Constructions in Lithuanian: Selected works of Emma Geniušienė

Edited by Anna Kibort, Nijolė Maskaliūnienė & Artūras Ratkus

Subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 179] 2016. xx, 313 pp. |

Vukotić, Vuk 2025 Review of The People That Never Were: Linguistic Scholarship and the Invention of the Aryans by Christopher M. Hutton (2025)

Historiographia Linguistica 52:2 pp. 353–359 | book review

Kavaliūnaitė, Gina 2025 The Lithuanian translation of the Statenbijbel and how it was influenced by Dutch

Keywords: Chylinski Bible | Dutch language influence | influence of the Statenbijbel

In: Dutch and Contact Linguistics: The Dutch language outside the Low Countries, Joby, Christopher & Nicoline van der Sijs (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 55] pp. 227–248

Kapkan, Danguolė Kotryna 2025 BE-perfects and grammaticalization in Bulgarian and Lithuanian: A study based on data from Facebook comments

Keywords: BE-perfect | grammaticalization | auxiliary | Bulgarian | Lithuanian

Studies in Language 50:1 pp. 160–205 | article

Astrauskienė, Jurgita & Danguolė Satkauskaitė 2025 Culture-bound references in the Lithuanian-dubbed “Coco”

Keywords: culture-bound references | dubbing | animation | translation procedures | synchronization

In: Aproximación a la traducción de referentes culturales en el ámbito audiovisual y literario [Approach to the translation of cultural references in the audiovisual and literary fields], Mogorrón Huerta, Pedro, Lucía Navarro-Brotons & Iván Martínez-Blasco (eds.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 45] pp. 19–41

Alosevičienė, Eglė 2025 Kulturbezüge in der Voice-Over-Übersetzung von multilingualen Filmen: Grenzen und Möglichkeiten der Übertragung

Keywords: audiovisual translation | multilingualism | cultural references | translation strategies

In: Aproximación a la traducción de referentes culturales en el ámbito audiovisual y literario [Approach to the translation of cultural references in the audiovisual and literary fields], Mogorrón Huerta, Pedro, Lucía Navarro-Brotons & Iván Martínez-Blasco (eds.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 45] pp. 72–89

Šlapkauskaitė, Rūta 2024 Mothering the anthropocene: Entropic satire in Richard Flanagan’s The Living Sea of Waking Dreams

In: Ruptured Commons, Guttman, Anna & Veronica J. Austen (eds.) [FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 19] pp. 182–203 | open access

Cibulskienė, Jurga, Inesa Šeškauskienė & Virginija Masiulionytė 2024 Metaphorical framing of political events through ENTERTAINMENT scenarios: A cross-cultural perspective

Keywords: metaphorical framing | scenario | viewpoint | media discourse | Belarusian political crisis

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 24:1 pp. 286–317 | article

Cibulskienė, Jurga 2023 Scepticism voiced through extended metaphors: Assessment of higher education reform in the media

Keywords: extended metaphor | narrative | framing | evaluation | higher education reform

Metaphor and the Social World 13:2 pp. 197–220 | article

Panov, Vladimir 2023 Toward a non-aprioristic approach to discourse-associated devices

In: Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective, Barotto, Alessandra & Simone Mattiola (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 227] pp. 13–34

Holvoet, Axel 2022 A hitherto unnoticed type of verb-framed construction in Lithuanian and the typology of event conflation

Keywords: event conflation | verb-framed construction | satellite-framed construction | incremental path | Lithuanian | implicative verbs

Studies in Language 47:3 pp. 571–598 | article

Vilkaitė-Lozdienė, Laura & Loreta Vilkienė 2022 Vocabulary size estimates for Lithuanian native speakers: Is it possible to talk about L1 vocabulary size cross-linguistically?

Keywords: vocabulary size | Lithuanian | vocabulary growth | Yes/No test

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 174:2 pp. 177–201 | article

Ruskan, Anna & Marta Carretero 2021 A cross-linguistic look at the right periphery: Utterance-final pragmatic markers in English, Spanish and Lithuanian

Keywords: right periphery | left periphery | cross-linguistic | relational | interpersonal | speech act | inferential evidentiality

In: Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries, Van Olmen, Daniël & Jolanta Šinkūnienė (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 325] pp. 415–448

Jasionytė-Mikučionienė, Erika 2021 The Lithuanian focus particles net ‘even’ and tik ‘only’ and clause peripheries

Keywords: focus particle | scope | clause periphery | discourse marker | common ground | discourse structure | (inter)subjective meaning

In: Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries, Van Olmen, Daniël & Jolanta Šinkūnienė (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 325] pp. 199–228

Šinkūnienė, Jolanta 2021  Žinai ‘you know’ in Lithuanian discourse: Distributional features and functional profile

Keywords: žinai ‘you know’ | pragmatic marker | syntactic position | functional profile | Lithuanian | (inter)subjectivity

In: Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries, Van Olmen, Daniël & Jolanta Šinkūnienė (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 325] pp. 229–250

Van Olmen, Daniël & Jolanta Šinkūnienė 2021 Pragmatic markers and peripheries: An overview

In: Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries, Van Olmen, Daniël & Jolanta Šinkūnienė (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 325] pp. 1–16

Vilkaitė-Lozdienė, Laura & Kathy Conklin 2022 Word order effect in collocation processing

Keywords: collocations | collocation processing | mental lexicon | word order

The Mental Lexicon 16:2/3 pp. 362–396 | article

Arkadiev, Peter & Björn Wiemer 2020 Perfects in Baltic and Slavic

Keywords: Baltic languages | Slavic languages | grammaticalisation | be-perfects | have-perfects

In: Perfects in Indo-European languages and beyond, Crellin, Robert & Thomas Jügel (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 352] pp. 123–214

Urbonaitė, Justina 2020 Roush, D. R. (2018). Event Structure Metaphors through the Body

Metaphor and the Social World 10:2 pp. 338–343 | book review

Holvoet, Axel 2020 The dual nature of irrealis in complementation

Keywords: irrealis | mood | complementation | propositional complements | state-of-affairs complements | factive predicates | factivity

Studies in Language 44:1 pp. 165–190 | article

Urbonaitė, Justina, Inesa Šeškauskienė & Jurga Cibulskienė 2019 Linguistic metaphor identification in Lithuanian

In: Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages: MIPVU around the world, Nacey, Susan, Aletta G. Dorst, Tina Krennmayr & W. Gudrun Reijnierse (eds.) [Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 22] pp. 159–181

Cibulskienė, Jurga 2019 Communicating attitudes through metaphor: A case study of euro adoption

Keywords: metaphor in media discourse | euro adoption | personification | communication of attitudes

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 6:1 pp. 130–157 | article

Judžentytė, Gintarė & Vilma Zubaitienė 2019 The lexicon of the Lithuanian language in the 17–19th centuries

In: The intricacy of languages, Feliu, Francesc & Olga Fullana (eds.) [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 20] pp. 153–174

Šeškauskienė, Inesa 2018  Musolff, A. (2016). Political Metaphor Analysis. Discourse and Scenarios

Metaphor and the Social World 8:1 pp. 150–156 | book review

Šinkūnienė, Jolanta 2018 The power of English: I and we in Lithuanian, Lithuanian English and British English research writing

Keywords: personal pronouns | research articles | cross-linguistic study | inclusive we | exclusive we | Lithuanian | English | intercultural rhetoric

In: Intercultural Perspectives on Research Writing, Mur-Dueñas, Pilar & Jolanta Šinkūnienė (eds.) [AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 18] pp. 59–79

Mur-Dueñas, Pilar & Jolanta Šinkūnienė 2018 Introduction: Intercultural rhetoric approaches to the analysis of academic genres

In: Intercultural Perspectives on Research Writing, Mur-Dueñas, Pilar & Jolanta Šinkūnienė (eds.) [AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 18] pp. 1–12

Holvoet, Axel 2018 Marja-Liisa Helasvuo & Tuomas Huumo (eds.). (2015) Subjects in constructions – canonical and non-canonical

Constructions and Frames 10:1 p. 98 | book review

Ratkus, Artūras 2018 Greek ἀρχιερεύς in Gothic translation: Linguistics and theology at a crossroads

NOWELE 71:1 pp. 3–34 | article

Šinkūnienė, Jolanta 2017 Citations in research writing: The interplay of discipline, culture and expertise

In: Cross-linguistic Correspondences: From lexis to genre, Egan, Thomas & Hildegunn Dirdal (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 191] pp. 253–270

Usonienė, Aurelija & Audronė Šolienė 2017 Reportive evidentials in English and Lithuanian: What kind of correspondence?

In: Cross-linguistic Correspondences: From lexis to genre, Egan, Thomas & Hildegunn Dirdal (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 191] pp. 177–198

Vilkaitė, Laura 2017 Incidental acquisition of collocations in L2: Effects of adjacency and prior vocabulary knowledge

Keywords: collocations | incidental acquisition | nonadjacent collocations | adjacent collocations | vocabulary knowledge

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 168:2 pp. 248–277 | article

Wiemer, Björn & Marta Grzybowska 2015 Converse relations with the reflexive marker in Lithuanian and Polish: Between grammar and lexicon

In: Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic, Holvoet, Axel & Nicole Nau (eds.) [Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 2] pp. 211–286

Arkadiev, Peter M. & Jurgis Pakerys 2015 Lithuanian morphological causatives: A corpus-based study

In: Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic, Holvoet, Axel & Nicole Nau (eds.) [Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 2] pp. 39–98

Holvoet, Axel, Marta Grzybowska & Agnieszka Rembiałkowska 2015 Middle voice reflexives and argument structure in Baltic

In: Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic, Holvoet, Axel & Nicole Nau (eds.) [Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 2] pp. 181–210

Spraunienė, Birutė, Auksė Razanovaitė & Erika Jasionytė 2015 Solving the puzzle of the Lithuanian passive

In: Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic, Holvoet, Axel & Nicole Nau (eds.) [Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 2] pp. 323–366

Nau, Nicole & Axel Holvoet 2015 Voice in Baltic: An overview

In: Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic, Holvoet, Axel & Nicole Nau (eds.) [Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 2] pp. 1–36

Lenartaitė-Gotaučienė, Kristina 2014 Alternations in argument realization and problematic cases of subjecthood in Lithuanian

In: Grammatical Relations and their Non-Canonical Encoding in Baltic, Holvoet, Axel & Nicole Nau (eds.) [Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 1] pp. 137–180

Holvoet, Axel & Nicole Nau 2014 Argument marking and grammatical relations in Baltic: An overview

In: Grammatical Relations and their Non-Canonical Encoding in Baltic, Holvoet, Axel & Nicole Nau (eds.) [Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 1] pp. 1–41

Arkadiev, Peter M. 2014 Case and word order in Lithuanian infinitival clauses revisited

In: Grammatical Relations and their Non-Canonical Encoding in Baltic, Holvoet, Axel & Nicole Nau (eds.) [Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 1] pp. 43–95

Nau, Nicole 2014 Differential object marking in Latgalian

In: Grammatical Relations and their Non-Canonical Encoding in Baltic, Holvoet, Axel & Nicole Nau (eds.) [Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 1] pp. 207–255

Holvoet, Axel & Marta Grzybowska 2014 Non-canonical grammatical relations in a modal construction: The Latvian debitive

In: Grammatical Relations and their Non-Canonical Encoding in Baltic, Holvoet, Axel & Nicole Nau (eds.) [Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 1] p. 97

Wiemer, Björn & Valgerður Bjarnadóttir 2014 On the non-canonical marking of the highest-ranking argument in Lithuanian and Icelandic: Steps toward a database

In: Grammatical Relations and their Non-Canonical Encoding in Baltic, Holvoet, Axel & Nicole Nau (eds.) [Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 1] pp. 301–361

Mikulskas, Rolandas 2014 Subjecthood in specificational copular constructions in Lithuanian

In: Grammatical Relations and their Non-Canonical Encoding in Baltic, Holvoet, Axel & Nicole Nau (eds.) [Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 1] pp. 181–206

Seržant, Ilja A. 2014 The independent partitive genitive in Lithuanian

In: Grammatical Relations and their Non-Canonical Encoding in Baltic, Holvoet, Axel & Nicole Nau (eds.) [Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 1] pp. 257–299

Usonienė, Aurelija & Audrone Soliene 2012 Choice of strategies in realizations of epistemic possibility in English and Lithuanian: A corpus-based study

In: Corpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, Marzo, Stefania, Kris Heylen & Gert de Sutter (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 43] pp. 141–166

Usonienė, Aurelia & Audrone Soliene 2010 Choice of strategies in realizations of epistemic possibility in English and Lithuanian: A corpus-based study

Keywords: epistemic modality | modal verbs | corpus-based analysis | epistemic adverbials | frequency | contrastive analysis

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 15:2 pp. 291–316 | article

Usonienė, Aurelija 2008 Extension of meaning: Verbs of perception in English and Lithuanian

In: Meaning Through Language Contrast: Volume 1, Jaszczolt, Katarzyna M. & Ken Turner (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 99] pp. 193–220

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.