ABOUT
Assistant professor, PhD
Adress: Universiteto 5, LT-01122 Vilnius, Skandinavistikos centras
Phone number: +370 5 268 7235 , +370 5 219 32 47.
Office hours: contact by email
Research interests:
- Scandinavian and general linguistics
- The grammar of modern Lithuanian
Courses taught:
- Modern Danish language, culture and society I-IV
- Introduction to linguistics
- Linguistics I/II
PUBLICATIONS
Books
- Spraunienė, Birutė. 2019. Danų kalbos gramatika. Vilnius: Kitas Takas.
Articles
- Birutė Spraunienė, Paweł Brudzyński. 2021. The Lithuanian passive perfect and its history. In Baltic Linguistics, volume 12.1 = Studies in the TAME Domain in Baltic and its neighbours (thematic issue), 167–207. https://doi.org/10.32798/bl.923
- Nicole, Nau, Birutė Spraunienė. 2021. Future tense and narrativity. In Baltic Linguistics, volume 12.1 = Studies in the TAME Domain in Baltic and its neighbours (thematic issue), 209–247. https://doi.org/10.32798/bl.924
- Spraunienė, Birutė, Vaiva Žeimantienė. 2021. Lithuanian reflexive-based impersonals with accusative objects. In Peter Arkadiev, Jurgis Pakerys, Inesa Šeškauskienė, Vaiva Žeimantienė (eds.), Studies in Baltic and Other Languages. A Festschrift for Axel Holvoet on the occasion of his 65th birthday, 352–374. https://doi.org/10.15388/SBOL.2021.4
- Nau, Nicole, Birutė Spraunienė, Vaiva Žeimantienė. 2020. The passive family in Baltic. In Baltic Linguistics, volume 11 = Studies in the Voice Domain in Baltic and Its Neighbours (thematic issue), 27–128. https://doi.org/10.32798/bl.699
- Liina Lindström, Nicole Nau, Birutė Spraunienė, Asta Laugalienė. 2020. Impersonal constructions with personal reference. In Baltic Linguistics, volume 11= Studies in the Voice Domain in Baltic and Its Neighbours (thematic issue), 129–213. https://doi.org/10.32798/bl.699
- Holvoet, Axel, Birutė Spraunienė, Anna Daugavet, Asta Laugalienė. 2019. The agentive construction in Baltic and Fennic. Baltic Linguistics 10: Minor Grams in Baltic, Slavonic and Fennic (thematic issue), 195‒236.
- Holvoet, Axel, Birutė Spraunienė & Asta Laugalienė. 2019. Some implications for Ērika: Implicatives in Danish, Finnish and Lithuanian. In Ieva Steponavičiūtė Aleksiejūnienė, Loreta Vaicekauskienė (eds.) Shaping the Rings of the Scandinavian Fellowship. Festschrift in honour of Ērika Sausverde. Scandinavistica Vilnensis 14. Vilnius: Vilnius University Press. 215‒240.
- Spraunienė, Birutė. 2017. Emma Geniušienė. 2016. Passive Constructions in Lithuanian: Selected Works of Emma Geniušienė. Anna Kibort & Nijolė Maskaliūnienė (eds.), transl. Artūras Ratkus. Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamins Company. Review. Baltistica LII(1), 171-180.
- Spraunienė, Birutė, Auksė Razanovaitė, Erika Jasionytė. 2015. Solving the Puzzle of the Lithuanian passive. In Axel Holvoet and Nicole Nau (eds.) Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 323−366.
- Holvoet, Axel, Birutė Spraunienė. 2014. Ad hoc taxonomies: A Baltic parallel to the Scandinavian absolute positives. In Fun and Puzzles in Modern Scandinavian Studies, Ērika Sausverde and Ieva Steponavičiūtė (eds.), Scandinavistica Vilnensis 9, Vilnius University, 47‒62.
- Holvoet, Axel, Birutė Spraunienė. 2012: Towards a semantic map for definite adjectives in Baltic. Baltic linguistics 3, 65–99.
- Spraunienė, Birutė. 2008: Apibrėžtumo kategorija ir jos tyrimai lietuvių kalbotyroje [The category of definiteness and its investigation in Lithuanian linguistics]. Lietuvių kalba 2, 1–12, http://www.lietuviukalba.lt/index.php?id=102.
- Spraunienė, Birutė. 2008: Paprastųjų ir įvardžiuotinių būdvardžių opozicija lietuvių kalboje kaip apibrėžtumo sistema [The opposition of non-pronominal and pronominal forms of the adjective as a definiteness system in Lithuanian]. Acta Linguistica Lithuanica 59, 109–139.
RESEARCH AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
Doctoral dissertation
Spraunienė, Birutė. 2011. Apibrėžtumo žymėjimas lietuvių kalboje lyginant su danų ir kitomis artikelinėmis kalbomis [The Marking of Definiteness in Lithuanian. Against the Background of Danish and other Article Languages]. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Vilnius university.
Projects
- 2018–2021 m. researcher in the international project "The Baltic Verb: Grams, Categories and Domains", headed by prof. Axel Holvoet, Vilnius University.
- 2012‒2014 coordinator of NordPlus lingvodidactic project "Problem solving tasks for learning Danish as a second and foreign language in transformative learning environments"
- 2013‒2015 researcher in the international research project "Valency, Argument Realisation and Grammatical Relations in Baltic", headed by prof. Axel Holvoet, Vilnius University.
Academic trips and internships
- 2014 research visit at the University of Surrey
Additional activities
- Contact person for NORDLIKS network
- Member of the Committee of the BA Study Programme of Scandinavian Studies
- Member of the association Academia Salensis