Paquot 2007, 2008;Russell 2014;Yoon 2015).
Though in linguistic analysis, due to its polyfunctional nature, 'then' has been addressed under a number of various labels, from the quantitative perspective it is reported to be characteristic of spoken English (Biber et al. 1999). The present study, limited to the analysis of non-native language data, aims at determining the roles of language mode and text genre on the use of 'then' in the Lithuanian learners' English. Using quantitative and qualitative approaches three corpora representing the spoken (LINDSEI-LIT) and written (LICLE-VU-LIT and CALE-LIT) English produced by the