Aina BLINKENA

Professor Aina BLINKENA Latvian Language Institute, University of Latvia Akademijas lauk. 1 Riga, LV 1050 Latvia Tel. : +371 7574288 Fax: + 371 7227696

Born: September 5, 1929, Limbazi, Latvia

• Latvian Grammar
• Terminology
• Language Standartization
• History of Latvian Literary Language

Languages: Latvian, Russian, German, English, Lithuanian

• University of Latvia (Faculty of Philology), 1953
• Dr.philol. (Candidate of Sciences in former USSR, Ph.D. in Western countries), Latvian Academy of Sciences, 1958
• Dr.habil.philol. (Doctor of Science in former USSR), Latvian Academy of Sciences, 1970

Institute of Language and Literature of the LAS

• Junior Researcher, , 1953- 1959
• Senior Researcher, 1959 - 1970
• Head of the Latvian Language Department, 1970 -1981
• Deputy Director, 1981 -1992
• Leading Researcher, 1992 -1997
• State Emeritus Scientist, 1997 -

• Corresponding Member, Latvian Academy of Sciences, 1978 - 1992
• Full Member, Latvian Academy of Sciences, 1992 -
• Professor, the Highest Attestation Commission, Moscow, 1985
• The Latvian SSR State Prize, 1965
• Honorary Scientist of Latvia, 1992
• The Latvian Academy of Sciences Award, 1970, 1986
• State Emeritus Scientist, 1997
• The Three Stars Order (Republic of Latvia), 2001

Publications (~ 400)

• Grammar of the Modern Latvian, I -II. R., 1959- 1962 (in Latvian, author`s part - 273 pp.).
• Punctuation in Latvian. R., 1969, 410 pp. ( in Latvian).
• Language Contacts. R., 1989, 35 pp. (in Latvian).
• History of the Latvian Spelling (co- author A. Bergmane). R., 1986, 434 pp. (in Latvian).
• Language Situation and Language Culture. - Proc. Latvian Acad. Sci, 1974, N 2, pp. 102 -109 (in Latvian).
• The Role of the Neo- Latvians in Forming of the Latvian Language. - Acta Univ. Stockholmiensis, 1985, 2, , pp. 337 -343.
• Einige Tendenzen der Derivation von Adjektiven in den Baltischen Sprachen. - Colloquium Prutenicum Primum. Warszawa, 1992, pp. 121-127.
• Language Coexistence and Language Conflicts . -In: Fragmentary Visions on Social Change. Poland, Latvia and Finland. Working Papers of University of Tampere, B:54, pp. 60 - 63.
• The Main Disputable Problems of the Latvian Orthography. - Proc. Latvian Acad. Sci., 1992, N 12, pp. 1-8 (in Latvian).
• Die Kultur der Lettischen Sprache. - In: Sprachsituation und Sprachkultur in internationalem Vergleich. Sprache - System und Tätigkeit. - Frankfurt am Main - Berlin - Bern - New-York- Wien, 1995, pp. 159 -170.
• The Latvian Language: Some Problems of its Development and Existence. - In: ALFA (Actes de langue Francaise et de linguistigue), Universitas Dalhausiana, Halifax, Canada, 1994/95, vol. 7/8, pp. 463 - 469.
• Die Baltische Sprachen. (co- author K. Morkunas). - In: Atlas Linguarum Europae. A New Approach to Geolinguistics. Roma, 1996, pp. 40 - 50.
• Language Situation in Latvia 1988 - 1994. - In: Latvia. National Report. World Summit for Social Development. Copenhagen, 1995, pp. 24 - 25 .
• The Terminology and Phraseology of Heraldry. - In: International Conference on Terminology Planning. Wienna: Term Net, International Network for Terminology, 1994, pp. 151 - 162.
• Duty to Our Native Language. - Latvijas Vestnesis, 1997, April 10 (in Latvian).
• Adjectives in G.Mancel's vocabulary "Lettus". - Baltistica (Vilnius), 1999, vol. 23, N 2, pp. 243-250 (in Latvian).
• Linguistics at the Riga Latvian's Society. - Linguistica Lettica (Riga), 2000, N 6, pp. 5-20 (in Latvian).
• New Latvian orthography in 90-ties. - Linguistica Lettica , 2000, N 7, pp. 258-288 (in Latvian).
• Latvian languague in XXI century. - Proc. RPIVA (Riga), 2001, vol. 3, pp.258-262 (in Latvian).
• Academician Aina Blinkena. Biobibliography, 1999, Riga, 79 pp.

Research Projects

• The History of the Latvian Standart Language. Latvian Language Institute (1992- 1997).

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Last update 15.04.2005