LTRemiantis morfologinės akcentologijos koncepcija, monografijoje aprašyta visa lietuvių bendrinės kalbos kirčiavimo sistema. Skyrium nagrinėjamas vardažodis, veiksmažodis, prieveiksmis ir tarnybinės bei ekspresinės kalbos dalys. Leidinys skiriamas akcentologams ir apskritai prozodijos specialistams, ypač lietuvių kalbos kirčiavimo tyrėjams, doktorantams, studentams.
ENThe theoretical background and material. The present work presents the first description of all the accentual system of standard Lithuanian, based on the principles of morphological accentology. The investigation is synchronic, based on the methods of oppositional and distributional analysis. The novelty of the present investigation can be stated as follows: 1. A comprehensive description of the accentual system of standard Lithuanian. 2. Substantiation of mutagenity, i. e. the accentual-prosodic property of affixal morphemes which enables a scholar to include prosodic alternations in the description of the accentual system of a language. 3. An accentual classification of primary vocabulary. The classification is based on linguistic and pragmatic factors which motivate the accentual properties of the stems. 4. Discovery of the regularities of accentuation in different subsystems of the lexicon (see Conclusions). The material for the present investigation has been drawn from two editions of The Dictionary of Contemporary Lithuanian (Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas, Vilnius, 1954; 1972), and from two volumes of the three-volume edition of The Grammar of the Lithuanian Language (Lietuvių kalbos gramatika. Uys tomai. T. 1-2, Vilnius, 1965, 1971). The third edition of The Dictionary of Contemporary Lithuanian (Vilnius, 1993), other dictionaries and grammars of contemporary Lithuanian have also been made use of.