Konstrukcje bezosobowe z podmiotem arbitralnym i generycznym w gramatyce kaszubskiej i śląskiej na tle gramatyki polskiej

This paper presents a preliminary contrastive overview of impersonal constructions in the Kashubian and Silesian grammars against the background of Polish grammar. The research, based both on corpus texts and on additional native speaker data, has shown that the systems of impersonal constructions in Polish, Kashubian and Silesian are similar in most cases. Namely, the only significant difference between Polish and Silesian revealed by the research so far is the availability of the auxiliary be in the Silesian -no/-to construction. This construction is absent from Kashubian, which also differs from Polish and Silesian in the case of generic uses concerning modal predicates such as may, which are inflected for the third person singular masculine here.