The paper describes the status of collective numerals, especially those
endirg in -oje, in modern literary Polish and in the dialects of the Polish
linguistic area. The following problems are discussed: 1) the position of
these words in vocabulary and their semantic scope; 2) their distribution in
texts, including their relation to other numerals expressing the same numerical
value (dwoje г dwa г dwie t dwaj i dwóch ) and other те ans of quantification
(dwójka dzieci, dwie pary nożyczek); 3) their morphology i.e.
their relation to the categories of number, case and gender.