Unfinished “verbization” process: the development of predicative constructions with an adjective of the feminine gender in the 17th and 18th centuries in the light of corpus data

The article is devoted to the changes in Middle Polish syntactic construction which predicative function was performed by nominative, singular, feminine form of adjective. research carried out on corpus data aimed at tracing process that led transformation those adjectival forms into defective verbs (verbization). analysis covers six most popular 17th and 18th centuries: MOŻNA ‛it possible’, NIEMOŻNA impossible’, NIEPODOBNA WIELKA great’, PEWNA certain’ SŁUSZNA right’. first three them changed their grammatical status, whereas for rest verbization stopped. 2nd half century 1st 19th were decisive this respect.