354 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    354 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Lithuanian: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to modern Lithuanian grammar. It includes detailed treatment of all grammatical structures and parts of speech, and their semantic and grammatical categories: gender, number, case of nouns, adjectives, numerals and pronouns; degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs; tense, mood, person, transitivity, aspect and voice of verbs.

    The morphology chapters describe the formation, inflection and use of the different forms of every part of speech. Under syntax the syntactic relations and types of sentences, the expression of questions and negation, comparison, word order and interpolation are described. All grammatical phenomena are illustrated with examples from the modern language. Descriptions of phonetics and accentuation as well as orthography and punctuation are also included.

    Lithuanian: A Comprehensive Grammar is an essential reference for learners and users of Lithuanian. It is suitable for independent study and use in schools, colleges, universities and adult classes of all types.

    Preface

    Introduction

    Abbreviations and Symbols

    Chapter 1 Phonetics

    Chapter 2 Nouns

    Chapter 3 Adjectives

    Chapter 4 Pronouns

    Chapter 5 Numerals

    Chapter 6 Verbs

    Chapter 7 Adverbs

    Chapter 8 Prepositions

    Chapter 9 Conjunctions

    Chapter 10 Particles

    Chapter 11 Interjections

    Chapter 12 Onomatopoeic words

    Chapter 13 Simple sentence

    Chapter 14 Composite sentence

    Chapter 15 Questions

    Chapter 16 Negation

    Chapter 17 Comparison

    Chapter 18 Word order

    Chapter 19 Direct and indirect speech

    Chapter 20 Interpolation

    Chapter 21 Accentuation

    Chapter 22 Orthography

    Chapter 23 Punctuation

    Linguistic terms

    Tables

    Bibliography

    Index

    Biography

    Meilutė Ramonienė is a Professor and the Director of the Institute of Applied Linguistics at the University of Vilnius.

    Joana Pribušauskaitė is Lecturer in the Department of Lithuanian Studies at the University of Vilnius.

    Jogilė Teresa Ramonaitė is Research Fellow at the Institute of the Lithuanian Language and Assistant Professor at the University of Vilnius.

    Loreta Vilkienė is Associate Professor and the Head of the Department of Lithuanian Studies at the University of Vilnius.