Full Description
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.
Contents
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
