Lithuanian : a comprehensive grammar / Meilutė Ramonienė, Joana Pribušauskaitė, Jogilė Teresa Ramonaitė and Loreta Vilkienė.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramonienė, Meilutė, author.

Pribušauskaitė, Joana, author.

Ramonaitė, Jogilė Teresa, author.

Vilkienė, Loreta, author.

Series:

Routledge comprehensive grammars

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lithuanian language--Grammar.

Lithuanian language.

Physical Description:

xiii, 339 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"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. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

Abbreviations and Symbols

1. Phonetics

2. Nouns

3. Adjectives

4. Pronouns

5. Numerals

6. Verbs

7. Adverbs

8. Prepositions

9. Conjunctions

10. Particles

11. Interjections

12. Onomatopoeic words

13. Simple sentence

14. Composite sentence

15. Questions

16. Negation

17. Comparison

18. Word order

19. Direct and indirect speech

20. Interpolation

21. Accentuation

22. Orthography

23. Punctuation

Linguistic terms

Tables

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Ramonienė, Meilutė, Lithuanian

ISBN:

9781138063600

1138063606

9781138063617

1138063614

OCLC:

1114555427