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Associate Professor
Asdress: Universiteto 5, LT-01122 Vilnius
Phone number: +370 5 268 7235 , +370 5 219 32 47
Office hours: contact by email
Fields of research
- Scandinavian and general linguistics
- The grammar of modern Lithuanian
- Second and foreign language acquisition
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
- 2022-2023 researcher and head of the project "Acquisition of the category of definiteness in the interlanguage of Lithuanian adult L2 learners of Danish. (The project has received funding from the Research Council of Lithuania, agreement No. P-SP-22-218).
- 2018–2021 m. researcher in the international project "The Baltic Verb: Grams, Categories and Domains".
- 2013‒2015 researcher in the international research project "Valency, Argument Realisation and Grammatical Relations in Baltic".
- 2012‒2014 coordinator of NordPlus lingvodidactic project "Problem solving tasks for learning Danish as a second and foreign language in transformative learning environments".
Academic trips and internships
- 2014 research visit at the University of Surrey
Other activities
- Contact person for NORDLIKS network
- Member of the Committee of the BA Study Programme of Scandinavian Studies
- Member of the association Academia Salensis