fixed: multi-word expression
The fixed relation is used for certain fixed grammaticized expressions. It is an internal relation annotated between the words of a multiword expression. Such expressions tend to behave like function words.
Fixed expressions typically do not allow intervening words. The assumption is that these expressions do not have any internal syntactic structure and that the structural annotation is in principle arbitrary. Therefore, if a word attaches as fixed, it should not have any dependents (except perhaps punct, goeswith, and reparandum dependents, as these are not true syntactic relations).
The label fixed in Lithuanian is used for fossilized expressions (pronouns, adverbs, particles, conjunctions, or other phrases) in which there is a very tight internal connection between the words, the phrase is relatively stable, but it is not considered a morphological compound.
Multiword expressions annotated with fixed are represented in a flat structure, where all subsequent words in the expression are attached to the first one using the label fixed.
Pronouns: visa tai (“all this”), vienas kitą (-am, -u) (“each other”), mažai kas (“few people / little that”), daug kas (“many things / many people”), kažkoks tai (“some kind of”), ect.
Jie yra vienas kitam ištikimi . \n They are faithful-to each other .
fixed(vienas, kitam)
fixed(each, other)
Paired conjunctions: ne tik… bet ir (“not only… but also”), ne tik… tačiau ir (“not only… however also”), nors ir… bet (“although… but”), ect.
Ne tik mes , bet ir jie nusprendė vykti į kelionę . \n Not only we , but and they decided to-go on a-trip .
fixed(Ne, tik)
fixed(bet, ir)
fixed(Not, only)
fixed(but, and)
Particles: kad ir “even if / no matter”, kaip ir “as if / more or less / kind of”, net ir “even”, kaip tik “exactly / just”, bent jau “at least”, vis dar “still”, dar tik “only just / still only”, kur tau “as if”, ect.
Kad ir sunku , reikia tai padaryti . \n Even if it-is-difficult , it has to-be-done .
fixed(Kad, ir)
fixed(Even, if)
Adverbs: daug kur “in many places”, šiaip ar taip “one way or another / anyhow”, kaip reikiant “as needed”, tai yra “that is”, ect.
Susirinko šimtas žmonių , tai yra visi užsiregistravę . \n A-hundred people gathered , that is , all-of-them registered .
fixed(tai, yra)
fixed(that, is)
Multiword expressions: kas sau “each for oneself”, ne ką “not much”, maža to “on top of that”, negana to “in addition”, kaip sykis “just right”, ect.
Negana to , jie gali pasiklysti . \n On-top-of that , they may get-lost .
fixed(Negana, to)
fixed(On-top-of, that)
Jie nuėjo kas sau . \n They went each for-themselves .
fixed(kas, sau)
fixed(each, for-themselves)
Fixed expressions : ačiū Dievui “thank God”, sveiki atvykę “welcome”, kokį nori “whatever you want”, Jėzau Marija “Jesus Mary”, lyg niekur nieko “as if nothing happened”, akis į akį “face to face”, visi iki vieno “every single one”, ect.
Ačiū Dievui , jie atvyko . \n Thank God , they arrived .
fixed(Ačiū, Dievui)
fixed(Thank, God)
fixed in other languages: [axm] [bg] [bm] [cop] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [eu] [fi] [fr] [ga] [gd] [gsw] [hbo] [hy] [id] [it] [ja] [ka] [ky] [lt] [naq] [oge] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ruc] [ru] [sl] [sv] [tr] [u] [xcl]