LEXICOGRAMMATICAL PATTERNS OF LITHUANIAN PHRASES

The paper overviews the process of compilation of the first corpus-based Dictionary of Lithuanian Phrases. Phrases are transformed from collocational strings which were extracted from the corpus of contemporary Lithuanian language of 100 million running words applying a new statistical method called Gravity counts. The paper presents theoretical approach towards the most relevant notions of collocation, collocational string, phrase, part of speech, grammatical and lexicogrammatical pattern. Statistical method of extraction of collocational strings is shortly presented together with the initial output of raw collocational strings. Types of transformations of collocational strings into phrases and other manual procedures are described in a nutshell while primary results of patterning of the Lithuanian phrases as well as future steps are presented in greater detail