The adverb is the indeclinable and not inflective part of speech, who denotes the attribute of act, state, characteristic and different factors of act and state (place, time, reason, purpose and etc.). The adverb has the distinctive word-formation and derivation. Also the adverb has the distinctive accentuation. The accentuation of adverbs takes on a whole new dimension – morphonological dimension. Lithuanian language has the free accent, because of it morphonological features of morphemes determine the place of accent. There is an intensive interest in the frequency of different units of language now. Users has the possibility to use the Electronic Frequency Dictionary now. The base of this master‘s work are adverbs from Common Press Words of the 20th century: Electronic Frequency Dictionary (2004). There were more than 1200 adverbs in Electronic Frequency Dictionary. The derivatives of suffix -ai make about 67% of them. The mostly usable adverbs are these: dar, čia, dabar, daug, gerai, kaip, taip, daugiau, kur, kiek, ten, taip pat, vėl, jau, labai, todėl. The accentual domination of word-formation formants and the features of morphemes of underlying words determine the accentuation of adverbs derivatives. The accentual power of theme of underlying words and flexions and the attraction of flexions determine the accentuation of phrases (these phrases became adverbs) and the accentuation of other single adverbs. The short adverbs have the accent of underlying words.

The main goal of this work is to research the accentuation in the “Grammar of the Lithuanian language” to analyse the words which contravene with the standards of modern accentuation. The attention is being paid as well to the morphonological principles of accentuation. There are not many detailed research works of this kind. Nevertheless, more language specialists appear now analysing the accentuation of the standard language based on the morphonological principles. The accentuation of the majority of nouns, given in the Grammar of the Lithuanian language is according to the rules of standard language. 257 words of different parts of speech are discussed in the work. The words for analysis were selected only those the accentuation of which controverse with accentutaion rules of the standard language or they have accent variations. Two accentuation tendencies of these words showed up: mostly (193 words) it was according to the accentuation of the period, given in the DŽ1, or it is based on the dialects (64 words), though it is not pointed out. The accentuation of some words can be proof‘s faults. The words given in the first volume of Grammar of the Lithuanian language are grouped into chapters according to word formation principles. Systematized and grouped material was described according to normative and morphonological aspects. The accentual power of the words collected is shown in formulas, schemes, discussed according to the morphonological principles of stressing... [to full text]