Vietininko vartosenos religinio pobūdžio tekstuose ypatumai

ENThe present article is dedicated to attracting readers' attention to different texts having religious contents and purposes where the locative case is used in a peculiar way, a more peculiar way than it is usually applied. Another purpose of the article is to turn the readersí attention towards the specific character of the usage of such a locative as well as factors predetermining larger productivity of some phenomena. The article is based on Christian periodical press, as well as websites, text databases, translations of the New Testament, etc. Religious texts have a peculiarity of much higher frequency of the so-called inner locative expressing the inner state of a person, when compared to ordinary language. It is possible to distinguish three large semantic groups of such locatives, i.e. locatives expressed in the form of pronouns as well as proper and common nouns (Aplinkui dykuma, ir tavo Dievas tavyje; Visuomet vienas prieš kitą yra Dievo gailestingumas Jėzuje Kristuje ir mūsų menkumas). Locatives expressing a personís characteristics and a personís mode of living are used more frequently in religious texts in comparison with other texts (Mes visi buvome pakrikštyti vienoje Dvasioje, kad sudarytume vieną kūną). The research data allow stating that such locatives existing in the periphery of standard Lithuanian make a common and peculiar syntactic means of religious texts that helps convey some specific states of a human being and nuances of the human-divine interrelationship. Quite a number of such formations that include locatives having such semantics have a tendency to form stable constructions and become a kind of formulae used in Christian liturgy, prayers, rituals and etiquette.