Niech wygram, niech usiądzie − formy fleksyjne czasownika czy konstrukcje składniowe?
Niech wygram, niech usiądzie – inflectional verb forms or syntactic constructions?

Summary/Abstract: The article concerns the grammatical interpretation of sequences created by combining the particle niech with the present or future tense forms of verbs, e.g. niech usiądę, niech usiądziemy, niech (Pan/i) usiądzie, niech (Państwo) usiądą. In the grammatical descriptions of the contemporary Polish language they are characterized either as the inflectional forms of the imperative mood of the verb or as syntactic constructions (and thereby are included into the verb paradigm or excluded from it). The author subjects to analysis the criteria used by the scholars advocating either of the interpretations and confronts them with various types of usage of the analysed sequences and with the usage of the imperative mood forms created in a synthetic manner. The discussion offered in this article leads to a conclusion that neither of the abovementioned two interpretations of the sequences containing niech is free from defects and in order to adequately describe the linguistic phenomena analysed here further detailed investigation is required.

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