The present study accounts for the use of general extenders (GEs) in spoken and written registers. The repertoire and usage of GEs is analysed in Lithuanian by focusing on their distribution across different registers, their structural properties, and discourse-pragmatic functions. The study is based on a reference corpus of Lithuanian, which includes four subcorpora of written discourse and a subcorpus of spoken discourse. The findings indicate that there are some significant cross-generic differences in GE frequency, but most frequently GEs in Lithuanian are used in written academic discourse. With regard to the structural types of GEs, adjunctives are considerably more frequent than disjunctives. GE structure allows for a large degree of variation, and in spoken interaction GEs can include deictic elements. Concerning discourse-pragmatic functions, GEs are predominantly used to serve textual and interpersonal functions, which appear to be strongly related to the structural type of the GE and discourse settings.

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一般扩展和话语变异

本研究说明了通用扩展器 (GE) 在口语和书面语域中的使用。立陶宛语中对 GE 的曲目和用法进行了分析，重点是它们在不同语域中的分布、它们的结构特性和话语语用功能。该研究基于立陶宛语参考语料库，其中包括四个书面语料库和一个口语语料库。研究结果表明，GE 频率存在一些显着的跨属差异，但立陶宛语中的 GE 最常用于书面学术话语。关于 GE 的结构类型，助词比析取词频繁得多。GE 结构允许很大程度的变化，并且在口语交互中 GE 可以包含指示元素。