Codification (i.e. validation of the standard language norms in written form) has always been lagging behind the actual usage to a smaller or larger extent, and it is naturally taken as inevitable. However, if the gap is very big, the standard language (SL) may have problems in functioning and is likely to cause anxiety among SL users. Research into the opinion of SL users attest to the fact that currently there is a gap lying between standard Lithuanian and its codification. Besides objective reasons (the statics of the codification and the dynamics of the usage), there are some subjective reasons: the qualification of codifiers and the organization of their work, the lack of research works on usage, some contradictions in different codification works, etc. Hence the following assumptions might be made: 1) some codified norms of the SL are not stable or sufficiently strict; 2) the codification in some cases is lagging behind some tendencies of the actual language usage and must be changed. The goal of linguists is to find ways to narrow the gap between the codification and the actual usage. Therefore, it is important that they have a sufficient understanding of the present situation of the language usage and codification, i. e. of the functioning and assessment of particular cases. The relationship between codification and actual usage should be treated in more general terms trying to identify some regularities of their identity and discontinuity, and a general methodology of the codification work must be prepared.

Numeriai:

2011 - T.57
Nr.1, Nr.2, Nr.3, Nr.4

2010 - T.56
Nr.1-4

2009 - T.55
Nr.1-2, Nr.3-4

2008 - T.54
Nr.1, Nr.2, Nr.3, Nr.4

2007 - T.53
Nr.1, Nr.2, Nr.3, Nr.4

2006
Nr.1, Nr.2, Nr.3, Nr.4

2005
Nr.1, Nr.2, Nr.3, Nr.4

2004
Nr.1, Nr.2, Nr.3, Nr.4

2003
Nr.1, Nr.2, Nr.3, Nr.4

2002
Nr.1, Nr.2, Nr.3, Nr.4

2001
Nr.1, Nr.2, Nr.3, Nr.4