Pronouns. Groups

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Groups Personal Demonstrative Interrogative Indefinite

Groups

Personal
Demonstrative
Interrogative
Indefinite

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Morphological categories Person Number (singular, dual and plural) Case Gender (in

Morphological categories

Person
Number (singular, dual and plural)
Case
Gender (in the 3rd person

singular)
Personal pronouns of the 1st person followed a suppletive paradigm
(in Russian and Latin:
я-меня, ego- mihi)
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Declension of Personal Pronouns in OE

Declension of Personal Pronouns in OE

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Personal Pronouns in ME and NE

Personal Pronouns in ME and NE

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Demonstrative Pronouns in OE

Demonstrative Pronouns in OE

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Demonstrative Pronouns in ME and NE

Demonstrative Pronouns in ME and NE

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Indefinite and Negative Pronouns Simple pronouns - ‘sum’ (NE ‘some’), ‘an’

Indefinite and Negative Pronouns

Simple pronouns - ‘sum’ (NE ‘some’), ‘an’

and ‘ǣniʒ’ (NE ‘one, any’); ‘nān’ (NE ‘none’) ; ‘ æÞer ’ (NE ‘ any of two’); ‘ ʒehwa ’ (NE ‘every’)
Compound pronouns - adding the noun ‘þing’ to simple pronouns: ‘nānþinʒ’ (NE ‘nothing’)
‘ǣniʒ’ - in interrogative, negative, and conditional sentences
‘sum’ - in affirmative sentences
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Interrogative Pronouns ‘hwā’ (Masc. and Fem.) - NE ‘who’ ‘hwæt’ (Neut.)

Interrogative Pronouns

‘hwā’ (Masc. and Fem.) - NE ‘who’
‘hwæt’ (Neut.)

– NE ‘what’
‘hwylc’ - NE ‘which’
the Instrumental case of ‘hwæt’ - ‘hwў’( NE ‘why’)
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Possessive Pronouns Developed from the Genitive case of personal pronouns: mīn, þīn, his, hire, ēōwer

Possessive Pronouns

Developed from the Genitive case of personal pronouns: mīn, þīn,

his, hire, ēōwer