Advances in the Syntax of DPs - Structure, agreement, and case

256 Artur Bartnik

tę nadzieję na ich dobroć

this.sg.acc.f hope.sg.acc.f for their goodness

‘but they immediately sensed my hope for their goodness’

(IJPPAN_k123072, Tamara Bołdak-Janowska 1998: 2, ‘Rytmy polskie

i niepolskie: opowiadań naiwnych ciąg dalszy’)

The tables below show the results of a sample corpus research into all the possible

case forms of possessives immediately followed by determiners and nouns in the 1st

and 2nd person in the singular and plural. There are a few more examples which are

ambiguous or the combinations are not followed by nouns. They are excluded from

our calculations:

Figure 1. Possessives mój ‘my.sg.nom.m’, moja ‘my.sg.nom.f’, moje ‘my.sg.nom.n’ and twój

‘your.sg.nom.m’, twoja ‘your.sg.nom.f’, twoje ‘your.sg.nom.n’ in the singular with determiners

Case Possessive-

determiner

(1st person)

Occurrences Possessive-

determiner

(2nd person)

Occurrences

N/A mój ten 6 twój ten 1

G mojego tego 2 twojego tego 0

D mojemu temu 0 twojemu temu 0

I/L (o) moim tym 2 (o) twoim tym 2

N moja ta 4 twoja ta 1

G/D/L (o) mojej tej 2 (o) twojej tej 1

A moją tę 2 twoją tę 0

A/I moją tą 0 twoją tą 0

N/A moje to 2 twoje to 0

Figure 2. Possessives mój ‘my.sg.nom.m’, moja ‘my.sg.nom.f’, moje ‘my.sg.nom.n’ and twój

‘your.sg.nom.m’, twoja ‘your.sg.nom.f’, twoje ‘‘your.sg.nom.n’ in the plural with determiners

Case Possessive-

determiner

(1st person)

Occurrences Possessive-

determiner

(2nd person)

Occurrences

N moi/moje ci/te 2 twoi/twoje ci/te 0

G/A/L moich tych 0 twoich tych 0

D moim tym 0 twoim tym 0

I moimi tymi 0 twoimi tymi 0