LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Senieji raštai; Konstantinas Sirvydas; Leksikografiniai šaltiniai; Prūsų Lietuvos leksikografijos šaltiniai; Old writings; Konstantinas Sirvydas; Lexikographic sources.
ENThe paper sets out to examine the functions of tečiau, which is a rather rare word in Konstantinas Sirvydas’ "Punktai sakymų" and hardly ever found in the eastern variety of old Lithuanian writings. On the basis of syntactic and semantic analysis, there have been four types of its usage singled out. The function of an emphatic particle, when the word is used with the conjunction о/ о, is considered as the main type. The word tečiau may be found with the above conjunction or alone constituting the second component of the parallel structure with two conjunctions norint ...(a) tečiau. In some cases, in texts of specific syntactic and semantic structure, the word tečiau used sentence - initially should not be treated as a typical conjunction. The paper argues that historically the functions of the word "tečiau" could have developed following the same stages: from the emphatic particle to the second component of the parallel structure with two conjunctions to an independent conjunction. [From the publication]