Lithuanian: A Comprehensive Grammar
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Lithuanian: A Comprehensive Grammar
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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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- List of 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 sentences
- Chapter 14 Composite sentences
- 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