LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Recenzija; Lietuvių dialektologija; Genezė; Ikitarmėtyrinis laikotarpis; Lauko tyrimai; Tarmių identifikavimas; Tyrimo perspektyvos XIX – XX a. sandūroje; Review; Lithuanian dialectology; Genesis; Predialect period; Field expeditions; Identification of dialects; Research perspectives at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
ENThe reviewed monograph is the first part of the three-volume series prepared by the Lithuanian linguist Danguolė Mikulėnienė. She has taken on the ambitious task of presenting the genesis, development stages, paradigmatic breakthroughs and achievements of Lithuanian dialectology until the beginning of the twenty-first century. The richly illustrated study contains a detailed discussion of the period preceding the birth of scientific dialectology in Lithuania (from the seventeenth until the mid-nineteenth centuries), and covers in a systematic way conceptual changes in the linguists’ approaches to the issue of determining the extent and classification of Lithuanian dialects at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The advantage of the monograph is the consistent combining of a historiographic approach with a strictly linguistic analysis. The reviewed volume includes commentaries on numerous source materials which document contribution that scientists from various research traditions have made to the discourse of Lithuanian scientific dialectology paving the way for its constant development. [From the publication]