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- Pranas Skardžius (26 March 1899 – 18 December 1975) was a Lithuanian linguist. Together with , Skardžius was the first and most prominent linguist who matured in independent Lithuania. As a student at Vytautas Magnus University, Skardžius became secretary of Jonas Jablonskis and with his help obtained a scholarship to study at Leipzig University. Upon his return to Lithuania, he lectured as a docent at Vytautas Magnus University in 1929–1939 and as a professor at Vilnius University in 1939–1943. In 1944, Skardžius emigrated from Lithuania due to the upcoming Soviet annexation. Skardžius worked at the University of Tübingen in West Germany in 1946–1949 and at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. in 1956–1971. Skardžius wrote some 800 works and articles, both on purely academic subjects and on more practical issues of the everyday language. He was interested in the history of the Lithuanian language. His PhD thesis on the Slavic loanwords in ancient Lithuanian contained a list of 2,950 loanwords collected from 16–17th century Lithuanian texts. His habilitation was on the accentology of Mikalojus Daukša (1527–1613). In 1943, he published a 768-page work on word formation in Lithuanian which was supposed to be part of the planned historical grammar. However, World War II and subsequent emigration disrupted his research plans and he published only short academic articles. He was also interested in standardizing the Lithuanian language and developing clear linguistic norms. He published numerous articles on practical issues of everyday language. In 1950, together with others, he published a 606-page guide to the Lithuanian language. In 1973, he published a practical aid for Lithuanian Americans to help them find Lithuanian equivalents to international words. (en)
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- Lithuanian Language Society (en)
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- Slavic Loanwords in Ancient Lithuanian (en)
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- Library of Congress (en)
- University of Tübingen (en)
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- Vytautas Magnus University (en)
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- Pranas Skardžius (26 March 1899 – 18 December 1975) was a Lithuanian linguist. Together with , Skardžius was the first and most prominent linguist who matured in independent Lithuania. As a student at Vytautas Magnus University, Skardžius became secretary of Jonas Jablonskis and with his help obtained a scholarship to study at Leipzig University. Upon his return to Lithuania, he lectured as a docent at Vytautas Magnus University in 1929–1939 and as a professor at Vilnius University in 1939–1943. In 1944, Skardžius emigrated from Lithuania due to the upcoming Soviet annexation. Skardžius worked at the University of Tübingen in West Germany in 1946–1949 and at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. in 1956–1971. (en)
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