Lietuvių kalbos vienaskaitinių daiktavardžių vartojimas daugiskaitos formomis: leksikalizacija ir terminizacija
Use of Lithuanian singular nouns in plural forms: lexicalization and terminization

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to determine the lexicalization of the grammatical form of selected Lithuanian singular abstract nouns, which is related to the change in the grammatical form of the number of words. It is assumed that due to the change in the grammatical form of the number, the lexical meaning also changes. It is relevant to describe lexicalized nouns in more detail, methods of recognizing lexicalization, because the lexicon is the fastest-changing layer of the language, so it is necessary to record changes, and to update and edit dictionaries, especially since this analysis is based on examples of usage from texts. Non-term lexicon examples were selected from the Current Lithuanian Language Textbook (DLKT), Delfi.lt Textbook (DT) and online Google search. Although the statistical data of the texts showed that the phenomenon of pluralization of the studied singular abstract nouns is not very widespread, the analysis shows that pluralized lexemes acquire new meanings (or semes). Some have a high degree of lexicalization, such lexemes could be presented in a separate dictionary article of the plural lemma. Otherwise, when the degree of lexicalization of plural forms is low, they are not considered independent lexical units. The lexicalization of the grammatical form of the term lexicon is determined based on the meanings presented in the Dictionary of the Current Lithuanian Language (DLKŽ) and the term bank of the Republic of Lithuania (TB). The results of the research show that the transition of everyday language words into the lexicon of a special language is determined by terminization, but there are also cases where there is no clear semantic distance between the meanings of a word in everyday language and a term, which allows us to talk about the absence of terminization.

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