Laipsnio prieveiksmiai „quite“, „rather“, „pretty“ ir „fairly“ ir jų atitikmenys lietuvių kalboje

The present paper focuses on the cross-linguistic corpus-based analysis of the degree adverbs: quite, rather, pretty and fairly and their correspondences in Lithuanian. The aim of the paper is to reveal the correspondences of these degree adverbs and classify them according to Johansson’s (2007) classification.The research questions are the following: What is the distribution correspondences of quite, rather, pretty and fairly in Lithuanian in English-Lithuanian Parallel Corpus of the Corpus of the Contemporary Lithuanian Langue? What are correspondences of these degree adverbs? Do they perform any other functions? Are there any regular syntactic patterns of translation? The results show that degree adverbs correspond to a certain extent to translations with respect to function and form, but the meaning of the degree adverbs may also be compensated by many different linguistic means. Some adverbs may perform other functions, for instance, express modality and there is some regular syntactic transformations in translation. The conclusions suggest that the degree adverbs share not only common similarities, bet they also have some slight differences which are basically related to the history and the background of the degree adverbs