Kruopienė, Irena

The article is concluded with an explorative investigation of the use of figurative lexis in the novel instead of the conclusions. 80 figurative words were chosen from the novel to determine their use in the "Lithuanian Language Corpus" prepared by Vytautas Magnus University. The research revealed that the majority of the analysed forms of the novel words are not recorded in the "Lithuanian Language Corpus". This could be perceived as the author's design to use words, which are more specific and close to the dialectal environment of the Northern Panevėžys citizens, and less known to the users of the standard Lithuanian language or other dialects.

Agnė Žagrakalytė (born in 1979) is one of the most interesting new generation writers of Lithuania – a poet, essayist, literary critic, prose writer – and comes from the dialectal area of northern Panevėžys residents, Pasvalys. Her novel "Eigulio duktė: byla F 117" was published by "Tyto alba" publishing house in 2013; it received "Patriotai" and Jurga Ivanauskaitė awards for a free, open, and courageous artistic expression in 2014, and was also one of the contestants for the Book of the Year award. The article refers to abundant illustrative material while discussing the language of the novel "Eigulio dukra: byla F 117" by Agnė Zagrakalytė. The material under investigation demonstrates that an important role in the novel is attributed to lexical barbarisms (ancient barbarisms) and dialectal lexis (dialectisms) characteristic of the dialectal area of northern Panevėžys residents pertaining to eastern Aukštaičiai. The novel mostly contains morphonemic and lexical dialectisms with specific lesions of word stems or roots, or certain specific word forms made according to individual word formation models. For example, pašioti 'pešioti', tėtė 'tėtė', skaibyti 'skabyti', kaugelis 'kūgis, kūgelis'. Usually words typical of this region are used: ėglis 'kadagys', gryčia 'namas', prisieiti 'tekti', balsiai 'garsiai', mazgilis 'mazgotė', pakasynos 'laidotuvės', apsėdai 'šermenys', there are numerous derivatives made from diminutive suffixes -elis, -ė, -ėlis, -elytė, -(i)ukas, etc. Morphological dialectisms incident to eastern Aukštaičiai are also present in the text, for example, naming a person according to their spouses' profession or name (advokatienė 'advokato žmona'), peculiar compounds (gelžkelis 'geležinkelis'), dialectal variations of numerals or pronouns (dvijen 'dvi', abuodu 'abudu'), usage of prefix par- specific of the dialect, etc.

part of the word, therefore many researchers in different languages pay a lot of attention to it. The present article examines the phonotactics of more complex Lithuanian verb roots and discusses the frequency of their usage in DabartinÎs lietuvi¯ kalbos tekstynas (Text Corpus of the Modern Lithuanian Language) and in the speech of the younger generation of Lithuanians. The research material consists of 1085 Lithuanian verbs selected from DabartinÎs lietuvi¯ kalbos ˛odynas (Modern Lithuanian Dictionary), the materials of the Text Corpus of the Modern Lithuanian Language and details of the survey held among the younger generation of Lithuanians. A total of 20 verbs, 10 with three and four root terminal consonants were selected for the research. The research included 34 students of the 1st to the 3rd year of the Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy, and 46 students of senior grades of Mikalojus Dauka Secondary School. After analysing the research material, it was concluded that about half of the analysed verbs in the modern Lithuanian language are used rather rarely or not used at all. The most rare verbs with a ternary final are unzgia, kleg˛da, terkia, and d˛er˛gia, and with a quaternary final ñ varg˛d˛ia, kverkËia, gverg˛d˛ia, and gurg˛da. According to the information of the language users and the text corpus, the analysed verbs are ranked very similarly by frequency of usage, and the answers of the survey participants and the text corpus regarding the most rarely used verbs coincide completely