Re: [tied] trzymac'

On Sri, svibanj 31, 2006 10:28 am, Piotr Gasiorowski reče:

> On 2006-05-31 01:40, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>
>> As I said, my Polish historical grammar seems to imply that,
>> without giving much details. I didn't find *pytaje or
>> anything similar in the Kazania S'wie,tokrzyskie.
>
> They are attested but rare. Contraction was the norm everywhere except
> in the 1sg. (if not replaced by <-am>, but otherwise amply attested) and
> 3pl. even in the oldest documents.
>
> I have found these examples so far:
>
> 3sg. chowaje (1x _Rozmys'lanie przemyskie_)
> 3sg. przyjaje (1x _Kodeks Dzial/yn'skich_, 2x _Ortyle Maciejowskiego_)
> 1pl. przyjajemy (1x _Ortyle Maciejowskiego)

Could this perhaps be OCS influence? :-/ Or it could be that some of the
dialects still haven't gone through completely with the contraction.

Mate