Short reflection on interchangeability of genitive and accusative in Polish and Slovenian languages Cover Image

Kilka uwag o wymienności dopełniacza i biernika w języku polskim i słoweńskim
Short reflection on interchangeability of genitive and accusative in Polish and Slovenian languages

Author(s): Anna Stefan
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe
Keywords: category of grammatical case; genitive; accusative; Slovenian language

Summary/Abstract: The topic of the paper is interchangeability of genitive and accusative in Polish and Slovenianlanguages. The inspiration for the paper have its origin in observations of current linguisticbehaviours of contemporary Poles and Slovenes. Reflections on the subject are limited to selectedmorphological (the declension of singular nouns) and syntactic phenomenon in both of consideredSlavic languages. The focus in the paper is mostly on syncretism of genitive and accusative suffixesin masculine-animate gender and appearing more and more often deviations from standard use ofgenitive in negations. Analysis of tendencies of non-standard usage of these two cases in Polishand Slovenian is preceded with short characteristic of genitive and accusative in both languages.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 62
  • Page Range: 131-143
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish