Gramatinių formų vartojimas lietuvių kalbos beletristiniame stiliuje

Abstract

Now when Lithuania is entering the world of information technology, the need is felt to investigate its different stylistic varieties (and their thematic subtypes) at various levels of language. First of all, statistical data are needed for the individual domains of language structure (the lexicon, inflectional and derivational morphology). The morphological structure of publicistic language of business, science and administration, and the differences and similarities with regard to the use of the basic parts of speech and their principal grammatical forms have already been described in Žilinskienė [4, 5, 6]. The present article deals with the use of these forms in works of fiction. The parts of speech of fiction writing are compared with that of publicistic writing. It is characterised by a more frequent use of nouns (29.01% of the words in a text); these are followed by verbs. The cases of nouns and adjectives (the vocative being left out of consideration) can be divided into basic (nominative, genetive and accussative) and peripheral (instrumental, locative and dative). For verbs, finite forms are of highest frequency (68.51%), and participles occur less often (16.44%). Past tense forms are more frequent than present tense forms and participles.