Komplementiniai predikatai ir jų multifunkcionalumas: lietuvių kalbos tekstynais paremtas tyrimas

The paper is devoted to the synchronic study of the multifunctionality of complement-taking predicates in Lithuanian. The focus of the analysis is on the parenthetical use of verbal, adjectival, nominal, and participial one-word-form CTPs like manau ‘think’PRS.1SG, aišku ‘clear’ADJ.N, suprantama ‘understand’PTCP.PRS.PASS.N, žinia ‘message’F.SG.NOM, which function as adverbials and serve as intratextual and interpersonal discourse markers. The process of adverbialization they undergo is related to grammaticalization and it can be characterized by semantic bleaching, adverbial distribution, and non-addressability. The language data have been collected from two corpora: the Corpus of Academic Lithuanian (Corpus Academicum Lithuanicum – CorALit –http://coralit.lt) and the sub-corpus of fiction in the Contemporary Corpus of the Lithuanian Languge (http://donelaitis.vdu.lt).