| Abstract [eng] |
The dissertation, based on the usage-based theory of language acquisition, analyzes how students of Russian-speaking high schools mark an object through various grammatical cases governed by verbs of the Lithuanian language. The aim of the dissertation is to determine to what extent the object marking of the target group students corresponds to the Lithuanian language system and to what extent it deviates from it, and to investigate what linguistic and sociolinguistic factors determine the correctness of Lithuanian object marking. To answer the research question, a survey was conducted in four Vilnius high schools where the main language of instruction is Russian. 176 students participated in the study, working on a set of tasks prepared by the author of the dissertation. The collected research data were analyzed using linear mixed effects, generalized linear mixed effects models, and error analysis. The research results showed that object marking in Lithuanian by the participants of the study was influenced by the following linguistic factors: Frequency of verb, frequency of grammatical case, productivity of inflectional paradigm, influence of Russian language as L1. Also, one sociolinguistic factor has a significant influence on the subjects' object marking in Lithuanian - the age of Lithuanian language acquisition. |
