Iš jungtukų bet ir o vartosenos
Aspects of the use of the conjunctions bet and o

Summary/Abstract: The conjunctions bet ('but') and o ('but, while') in the Lithuanian language are described as expressing relations of comparison and opposition. The conjunctions bet and o enter constructions with some particles in co-ordinative noun phrses, which differ from predicative phrases. The conjunction bet, when used with the particles ne ('no') and tik ('only, just'), forms the basis for the framing conjunction ne tik... bet ir ('not only... but also'). The framing conjunction is the most frequent indicator of the comparision of the co-ordinative constructions and the conjunctions o and bet when used with the negation ne (ne... o and ne... bet), which refer to the opposition between co-ordinative components.

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