The identification and classification of morphological multiword units

This paper analyses morphological multiword units of inflective or uninflective parts of speech. It is one of the first attempts to discuss and analyse semantically non-compositional stable phrases of the Lithuanian language, called morphological multiword units. In the corpus of the Lithuanian language there were analysed 249 multiword units. It depends on the context whether two or three words used together are stable phrases or autonomous lexemes. All morphological multiword units were classified into adverbs, particles, conjunctions, prepositions, adverbs and particles. Some phrases were not identified. This classification is not final and perfect. Some multiword units can be attributed to a different part of speech or to several parts of speech. This classification is based on the corpus data judging from their syntactic behaviourHumanitarinių mokslų fakultetasVytauto Didžiojo universiteta