Rygiškių Jono Lietuvjų kalbos sintaksės pavyzdžiai
Examples in Lietuvjų kalbos sintaksė (Syntax of the Lithuanian Language) by Rygiškių Jonas

Summary/Abstract: The first comprehensive and systemic description of the syntax of the Lithuanian language Lietuvjų kalbos sintaksė (Syntax of the Lithuanian Language) was presented by Jonas Jablonskis under the pseudonym of Rygiškių Jonas as a textbook of a vitally important part of the language at the time when after the lifting of the ban on the Lithuanian press the Lithuanian language was making its way into schools.Jablonskis wrote Lietuvjų kalbos sintaksė in a year. Kazimieras Būga, Juozas Balčikonis and Jurgis Šlapelis helped him to resolve issues related to orthography and terminology. Jablonskis’ Lietuvjų kalbos sintaksė was published in Seinai on the initiative of the priest Juozas Laukaitis in the monthly of religious direction Vadovas in the autumn of 1910. As a separate book it was published in 1911 also in Seinai. In the foreword of the publication Jablonskis pointed out how important for this work were the examples (2900 of them) and introduced their sources. One third of them are examples of the spoken language form various villages, examples from folklore comprise more than a third (over 900) and examples of best language taken from the writings of 19th century (works of Kristijonas Donelaitis, Žemaitė, Motiejus Valančius, Simonas Daukantas and other) make up less than a third.Examples in Lietuvjų kalbos sintaksė are arranged according to the traditional plan of the textbooks of this subject – a sentence, parts of the sentence, types of the sentence, composite sentences and their kinds. For the first time in Lithuanian grammars punctuation marks with the rules of their usage and illustrative sentences were provided. The researched publication helped to bring out and to substantiate the norms of the grammar: first of all it can be seen in the rules set for various matters of syntax and based on convincing examples; in addition various mistakes ingrained in syntactic construction were indicated.The majority of 20th century textbooks of this subject continued the traditions of Jablonskis’ Lietuvjų kalbos sintaksė. Some of the examples (especially from the folklore) were widely used by the authors of textbooks as well as scientific works.

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