Polskie pluralia tantum w słowniku i gramatyce (próba charakterystyki fleksyjnej)

Abstract

The article aims at presenting one of the ideas of inflexional description of pluralia tantum, which was dominant in the twenty century grammars and which categorised them as a sub-group of lexemes with defective inflexion subject to noun characterisation of complete paradigms. The attempts of the last decade to create independent grammatical classification agreed with the three-group category of gender and modifications of vocabulary definition. In establishing patterns of pluralia tantum, their morphological properties (case syncretisms, choice of endings) and morphonological themes are taken into account.