Dėl veiksmažodžio garsinti kirčiavimo normos
On the accentuation norm of the verb garsinti

Summary/Abstract: In linguistic works on Lithuanian accentology as well as dictionaries and reference books there has been considerable fluctuation in the accentuation norm of the verb garsinti (‘to sound, announce, proclaim’). The normative Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas (Dictionary of Contemporary Lithuanian) offers two accentuation variants: of acute root (gársinti, gársina, gársino) and suffixal accentuation (garsinti, garsina, garsino). The suffixal pattern in actual usage has become almost extinct. In 2005 the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language amended the accentuation norm of the verb by rejecting the suffixal pattern and approving thepopular variant of the circumflex root, cf. gársinti and garsinti, respectively.The research into the usage of the verb in three different regions of Lithuania has demonstrated that the newly approved variant of circumflex root accentuation is more popular than the main accentuation variant of the acute root accentuation (cf. 90 per cent and 10 per cent, respectively). Considering the actual usage and tendencies in the accentuation of the verbal suffix -inti, the paper suggests that the accentuation norm of the verb should be specified in the following way: the circumflex root accentuation pattern should be given as the main, primary variant (garsinti), and the acute root accentuation variant—as secondary (gársinti).

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