Daiktavardžio ir jo gramatinių formų vartojimo dažnis lietuvių kalbos stiliuose

Abstract

On the bases of computerised iterative dictionaries of scientific, professional, journalese and fiction styles (Grumadienė, Žilinskienė 1996) compiled using the same methods and the same number (300 000) of words in the texts published during 1990-1995 in Lithuania, the usage of the noun and its grammatical forms is under discussion. The following conclusions have been drawn: 1. The most frequently used part of speech in the texts of comparative styles is the noun. There are fewer nouns in fiction style than in texts of professional or scientific styles, and journalese texts in this respect take intermediate position. 2. The variety of all dictionary styles is conditioned by two parts of speech - the noun and the verb. 3. The more frequent use of nouns and adjectives is typical of texts containing factual information, while in texts of styles in which language is more picturesque and emotional, more verbs, adverbs, pronouns, articles, prepositions are used. 4. In the texts of comparative styles, noun forms of masculine gender are more frequent than feminine ones. The usage of gender forms is not dependent upon text styles. 5. In the texts of all four comparative styles, singular forms are more frequent than plural ones. The usage of these forms slightly differs in the texts of styles under investigation. 6. Noun cases in the texts of comparative styles (except the vocative) fall into two groups according their rate of use: the main group (genitive, nominative, accusative) and the peripheral (locative, instrumental and dative).These groups coincide with the structural classification of the case system. 7. According to the usage of all parts of speech and grammatical forms of nouns, scientific and professional texts exhibit little difference: the more distinct is the fiction style, while journalese occupies an intermediate position.