O odmianie czasowników o podstawach „mleć” i „pleć”
On the inflection of the verbs with the stems “mleć” and “pleć”

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the contemporary situation of the lexical variants of two Polish verbs: “mleć” : “mielić”, “pleć” : “pielić” (and their prefixed derivatives). As a rule Polish dictionaries give the hybrid paradigms with themajority forms built from the traditional variants “mleć” and “pleć”, but the participle and the gerund are taken from the new variants “mielić” and “pielić”, belonging to the productive conjugational pattern (“mielony”, “mielenie”;“pielony”, “pielenie” instead of the old forms “mlety”, “mlecie”; “plety”, “plecie”, now completely obsolete). In Polish text corpora the old variants are seemingly prevalent, but this is the result of automatic tagging, favoringthe variants accepted by traditional normative dictionaries. In fact, new variants are more frequent. In conclusion, the authors propose to divide the paradigms according to their history and to recognize “mielić” and“pielić” as neutral variants. This solution has been introduced in the new on-line edition of the “Grammatical Dictionary of Polish”.

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