Konstrukcje typu niedziel dwie — przejaw analogii czy rezultat wpływu obcego?

Abstract

The study focuses on combining numerals dwa, trzy and cztery with nouns, in particular the constructions like niedziel dwie, where the noun — being the subject which is counted — has the form of plural genitive. Constructions like that, contemporarily treated as incorrect, occurred already in the Old Polish language and became very common in the 16th–18th centuries. In t he 19th century, t hey were rather rare, a nd i n t he 20th and 21st centuries they have been preserved only in the area of the Eastern borderland. The reason for the occurrence of such constructions was primarily the impact of the paradigm of numerals from 5 upwards. The genitive form of the noun was also to a large extent determined by the order in which the noun was pushed before the numeral. In the Eastern borderland it was also the influence of Eastern Slavic languages that contributed to the discussed phenomenon — it is also the actual reason for preservation of this construction until today in the Eastern areas.