Oboczne formy zaimków dzierżawczych mój, twój, swój w języku mówionym mieszkańców miast

Abstract

The article concerns side forms of possessive pronouns my, your, one’s. Pronouns contracted forms in a spoken language are subject of particular interest. Collections of city speech texts representing speech of several Polish regions city inhabitants (Kraków, Poznań, Łódź, Zagłębie and Silesia inhabitants speech, as well as children speech from various cities and environments) have been the material basis of the study. The conclusions of the analysis may be generalized in the following way. In a spoken language of city inhabitants there are mostly non-contracted forms of possessive pronouns my, your, one’s. Rare contracted forms are met mainly in phrases. Apart from phraseology they have been found only few times in genitive masculine singular (my, one’s) and exceptionally in dative masculine singular (my) and dative feminine singular (one’s). Three syllable possessive pronouns are most frequently shortened to two syllable also in genitive singular. Phraseology (tradition of common collocations) and grammar case (genitive masculine singular) influence the use of either long or short forms. Pronouns rhythmic properties (their repetitiveness in speaking and stress) seem equally important, which, being only suggested here, would require more detailed analysis.