Wyrażanie liczebności w gwarze spiskiej a czynnik pokoleniowy

The aim of this paper is to analyse selected dialectal numerical lexemes functioning in the language of the inhabitants of the Polish part of Spisz, with a particular focus on generational differences. The author takes up, among others, the issue of frequency of use of numerals as well as the manner of their infl ection and pronunciation. The material base is Korpus Spiski (The Spisz Corpus), whose potential for use in linguistic research is presented in this sketch. The conducted analysis enabled the conclusion that in a dialect, like in the contemporary Polish language, numerical quantifi cation is based on cardinal numbers and on context-related collective numbers, which display vanishing tendencies. Usually, the forms of dialectal numbers differ from general Polish ones only in terms of systemic features. Variant phonetic and morphological archaisms as well as quantitative nouns occur chiefl y in the language used by the older generation.