Arablwalencja rodzaju rzeczowników typu kieszeń

Abstract

The present study is based on Polish vocabularies and dictionaries and dialect data. It describes gender shifts in some nouns, particularly in consonantal, feminine non-adjectival ones. The conclusion is that the changes in those nouns are of two kinds; 1) they are transferred to masculine group of N nouns (and, at the same time, in some masculine nouns they tend to change the gender into feminine), and 2) they take on the ending -a, typical of feminine nouns.. The paper also discusses linguistic data obtained from Polish Departments of Lublin University and Silesia thiversity in Sosnowiec. The questionnaire revealed that the students of those departments as representatives of all speakers of Polish show differences in the use of gender of some nouns.