Krystalizowanie się funkcji metapredykatywnej wykładników aproksymacji liczbowej w historii polszczyzny(na przykładzie przyimków)

Abstract

THE CRYSTALLISATION OF THE METAPREDICATIVE FUNCTION OF THE EXPONENTS OF NUMERICAL APPROXIMATION IN THE HISTORY OF THE POLISH LANGUAGE (ON THE BASIS OF EXAMPLES FURNISHED BY PREPOSITIONS)

The object of the research concerns the class of the exponents of numerical approximation (e. g. bez mała stu ludzi, z siedemset kilogramów, ładnych kilka metrów, jakieś 30 metrów), variously categorised due to the peculiar (grammatical), inflectional and syntactic properties. As demonstrated by contemporary analyses, it is a group of lexemes which oscillate between the objective and non-objective level of a language. The author is interested above all in the evolution of exponents derived from prepositions (e.g. pod, nad, o, przed, ponad, blisko, około, mimo). She seeks the answer to the question about what processes resulted in the development of their metapredicative function; what determined the fact that some of them became separated from the syntax of dependence, lost their case government. The development of two groups was discussed in a more in-depth manner: the units z and ponad as well as blisko and około. The author points out that there were different linguistic mechanisms which brought about the syntactic changes in both groups, showing the multi-layered causes of transformations of this kind.