DAIKTAVARDŽIAI „ATITIKTIS“, „ATITIKIMAS“ ADMINISTRACINĖJE KALBOJE
NOUNS “COMPLIANCE”, “CONFORMITY” IN ADMINISTRATIVE LANGUAGE

Summary/Abstract: The article raises the matter of the degree of valency that the nouns compliance, conformity (Lith. atitiktis, atitikimas) have in administrative language. The verbal nouns in question are approached from a syntactic–semantic angle. Reliance is made on samples of texts from the Corpus of the Modern Lithuanian Language (CMLL) by the Centre of Computational Linguistics of Vytautas Magnus University and of EUR-lexadministrative texts. Analysis of 452 sentences of the administrative language has revealed that the nouns compliance, conformityare used in the sense of ‘similarity (concord) and/or equivalence; fitness’. No sentences where the subject nouns conformity, compliancewould be related to the meaning of the Lithuanian verb atitikti‘ (to) find, trace down’ have been observed. The syntactic valency of the nouns compliance, conformityoverlaps, with the object denoted with a dative as often as not. In the CMLL, it is present in over 80 per cent (352) of all cases, in EUR-lex, in over 95 per cent of the 100 sentences analysed. That dative, which acts as a comparative or beneficiary, is grounded on the net of a semantic formational foundation of the verb (to) comply, conform ((to) compare (to something or someone), equivalent, comparable (to something or someone), (to) fit (someone or something), (to) suit (someone or something), and so on). The exploratory study of transactions of administrative texts has showed that the Lithuanian nouns conformity, compliance with their broader range of meaning prevail over English nouns or other means of expression that have a more specific meaning.

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