ABSTRACT

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.

chapter Chapter 1|8 pages

Phonetics

chapter Chapter 2|33 pages

Nouns

chapter Chapter 3|14 pages

Adjectives

chapter Chapter 4|18 pages

Pronouns

chapter Chapter 5|7 pages

Numerals

chapter Chapter 6|43 pages

Verbs

chapter Chapter 7|11 pages

Adverbs

chapter Chapter 8|5 pages

Prepositions

chapter Chapter 9|11 pages

Conjunctions

chapter Chapter 10|26 pages

Particles

chapter Chapter 11|4 pages

Interjections

chapter Chapter 12|5 pages

Onomatopoeic words

chapter Chapter 13|19 pages

Simple sentences

chapter Chapter 14|11 pages

Composite sentences

chapter Chapter 15|7 pages

Questions

chapter Chapter 16|10 pages

Negation

chapter Chapter 17|6 pages

Comparison

chapter Chapter 18|6 pages

Word order

chapter Chapter 19|8 pages

Direct and indirect speech

chapter Chapter 20|6 pages

Interpolation

chapter Chapter 21|16 pages

Accentuation

chapter Chapter 22|7 pages

Orthography

chapter Chapter 23|9 pages

Punctuation