Dr. Danguolė Kotryna Kapkan

Education and academic qualifications

2024 – PhD in Linguistics, Vilnius University, Lithuania (Thesis: “The grammaticalization of BE perfects and beyond: case studies in Barese, Bulgarian, and Lithuanian”)
2018 – MA in General Linguistics, Vilnius University, Lithuania
2016 – BA in Linguistic and Intercultural Communication, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy

Professional assignments

Since October 2025 — Post-doc (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), Department of Slavic Studies, Potsdam University
2024–2025 — Lecturer, Department for Baltic and Slavic languages, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
2022–2024 — Research fellow, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania. Project: “Automatic adaptation of Lithuanian administrative texts for non-specialised purposes" (funded by the Lithuanian Research Council)
2020–2021 — Research fellow, Vilnius University, Lithuania. Project "The Baltic Verb: Grams, Categories, Domains" (Project leader prof. Axel Holvoet).
2019–2020 — Research fellow, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy. Project “La fraseologia nelle traduzioni di Italo Calvino: verso la costruzione di reti di fraseologismi mediante lo strumento CREAMY” [The phraseology in the translations of Italo Calvino: towards the construction of phraseology networks using the CREAMY tool] (Project leader prof. Sabine Koesters-Gensini).

Publications

Kapkan, Danguolė Kotryna. 2024. Features of BE-perfect grammaticalization in the person-based auxiliation system of Barese, Kalbotyra, 2024, 77, 107-140, https://doi.org/10.15388/Kalbotyra.2024.77.5
Kapkan, Danguolė Kotryna. 2021. Perfect in Lithuanian: A case study based on the data from Facebook comments”, Baltic Linguistics, 2021, 12(12), 21–71, https://doi.org/10.32798/bl.921
Kapkan, Danguolė Kotryna. 2020. La fraseologia calviniana in lituano: Il caso di Perplėštas vikontas” [Italo Calvino’s phraseology in Lithuanian: the case of Perplėštas vikontas], In Si dice in molti modi. Fraseologia e traduzioni nel Visconte dimezzato di Italo Calvino [In Many ways to say it. Phraseology and translations of the The Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino], Sabine E. Koesters Gensini and Andrea Berardini (eds.), Sapienza Università Editrice, Roma, 2020 https://doi.org/10.13133/9788893771696
Kapkan Danguolė Kotryna, Justina Mandravickaitė, Danguolė Kalinauskaitė, Eglė Rimkienė. 2024. Paprasta lietuvių kalba: pirmi žingsniai link automatinio administracinių tekstų paprastinimo. [Plain Lithuanian: first steps towards automatic simplification of administrative texts]. Studies about Languages, 5-26, https://doi.org/10.5755/j01.sal.1.45.37089
Mandravickaitė Justina, Eglė Rimkienė, Danguolė Kotryna Kapkan, Danguolė Kalinauskaitė, Tomas Krilavičius. 2024. Automatic Simplification of Lithuanian Administrative Texts. Algorithms, 17(11), 533; https://doi.org/10.3390/a17110533
Mandravickaitė Justina, Eglė Rimkiene, Danguolė Kalinauskaitė, Danguolė Kotryna Kapkan. 2024. Exploring Automatic Text Simplification for Lithuanian. Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2024), 2024, 40-49, Association for Computational Linguistics

Conference presentations

2025 — The Latvian perfect on Facebook: an analysis based on data from comments (with Anna Daugavet). 58^th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France
2024 — Elements of BE-perfect grammaticalization in the person-based auxiliation system of Barese. 57^th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Helsinki, Finland
2023 — Automatic Simplification of Lithuanian Administrative Texts: Initial Experiments (with Justina Mandravickaitė, Danguolė Kalinauskaitė, Eglė Rimkienė, Tomas Krilavičius). DAMSS — Data Analysis Methods for Software Systems. Druskininkai, Lithuania
2023 — Paprasta lietuvių kalba: pirmieji žingsniai link automatinio administracinių tekstų paprastinimo [Plain Lithuanian: first steps towards automatic simplification of administrative texts] (with J. Mandravickaitė, D. Kalinauskaitė, E. Rimkienė). 28th International Scientific Conference of Jonas Jablonskis, Institute of the Lithuanian Language, Vilnius, Lituania
2023 — The centrality of the subject and how to get away from it: a Facebook comments-based study on BE perfect grammaticalization in Bulgarian and Lithuanian. Topic, focus, subject: between grammatical necessity and information-structural load, University of Osnabrück, Germany
2023 — BE perfects and grammaticalization in Bulgarian and Lithuanian: A study based on data from Facebook comments. 56^th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
2023 — BE perfects and grammaticalization in Bulgarian and Lithuanian: A study based on data from Facebook comments. Academia Grammaticorum Salensis Vigesima, Salos, Lithuania
2021 — The perfect in Lithuanian: a case study based on data from Facebook comments. Academia Grammaticorum Salensis Duodevigesima, Salos, Lithuania
2019 — The Lithuanian perfect from the 16th century texts until Facebook: a comparative study of two empirical sources. Bridges in the Baltics University of Latvia, Riga
2018 — Lithuanian perfect in context. Bridges in the Baltics University of Tartu, Estonia

Organizing Committee Member

Since 2022 — Annual linguistics summer school and conference “Academia Grammaticorum Salensis”, Lithuania