I. Oe Pronouns.

There are several types of pronouns in OE: personal, possessive, demon-strative, interrogative, definite, indefinite, negative and relative. As for the group of possessive pronouns, it derived from the genetive case of the per­sonal pronouns of all persons and numbers. The reflexive possessive pronoun "sin" was declined in the way of strong adjective. The groups of possessive pronouns and reflexive pronouns were not fully developed and were not al­ways distinctly separated from the main classes. The grammatical categories of the pronoun were either similar to those of nouns or corresponded to those of adjectives. OE personal pronouns had three persons, four cases, three num­bers (singular, plural and dual)

Declension of Personal Pronoun.

Table 1

The first person
Case		Singular			Dual			Plural
Nom. Gen. Dat. Acc.		ic mīn mē mec, mē			wit uncer une uncit			wē ūre ūs ūsic,us
The second person
Nom. Gen. Dat. Acc.		bu bin be bec, bē		zit incer inc incit,inc			zē ēower ēow ēowic, ēow
T he third person
Case Singular Plural
M.	F.		N.			All genders
Nom. hē Gen. his Dat. him Acc .hine	hēo hire(here) hire(hiere) hie		hit his him hit			hiē,hī,h,hēo hira,heora,hiera,hyra him,heom hīe,hī,h,hēo

OE Demonstrative Pronouns

Table 2

Singular

Case M.	F.	N.
Nom. sē Gen. bæs Dat. bæm	seo bære bære	bæt bæs bæm
Acc. bone Intrr. b,bon	ba -	bæt b, bon

Plural

Case	All genders
Nom. Gen. Dat. Acc. Instr.	bā bāra bm bā -

Dual number of pronouns existed till the middle of the 13 th century. As for the pronouns of the 1 st p. (sing and plural) ic, we, they had supplitive forms. The nominative case of these pronouns has not the same root as other cases have. The same phenomenon we find in Russian: я - мы, мне, мною; мы - нам, нac, нами. Pronouns of the I st person and the second persons are reflexes of IE forms: ic corresponds Lat, ego, Ђu - Lat. tū. As for the demon­strative pronouns;

Sc. bat Se

Rus, (tot) (to) (тa)

Gothic sa bata so

Lai. Iste istud ista

Possessive pronouns correspond to Genetive case of personal pronoun; (Singular) - min, bin, his, hiere; (plural) ure, eower, hiera, hira.

The pronoun of the 1 st person (min)and the second person (bin) were declined as the strong declension of adjectives. Nom. min. bin

Gen. min-en b in – en

Dat. min-us bin - us

Acc. min-ne bin – ne

Interrogative pronouns "hwa" - "who" and “hwt” "what" had only

singular forms

Nom. hwā hwæt

Gen. hwt hwæs

Dat. hwm hwæm

Acc. hwone hwæt

Intrr. - hw,hwi

The interrogative pronoun "hwilc" (which) is declined as a strong adjec­tives.

II. Middle English Period. There were two cases: Nominative and Objective;

Personal pronouns.

Singular.

	1 sp.	2 rd.	3 dm.	3 df.	3 dn.
OE ME	ic ich ( I )	bu thou	hē he	heo shē, hē sho,ho	hit hit

Plural

	1 st.p	2 nd.p	3 dm.g.	F. g.	N.g.
OE ME	we wē	ze yē	hie hi	hy they	hi heo

Possessive pronouns:

	1 p.s.	2 nd p.s.	3 d.p.
			m.g.	f.g
OE	min	bin	his	hiere (hire)
ME	min	thin	his	her,hir
	1p.pl.	2 nd.p.pl.	3d.p.pl.
			m.g	f.g
OE	ūre	łower	hiera	Hira
ME	oure	youre	here	There

In ME period personal pronoun - ic - was changed into - ich - [t ],but

pronunciation [t ] disappeared. Graphically it became necessary to use capital letter -I-, as it was more noticeable in the written texts. As for personal pronouns - those - and - ye - [ji:] (later - yow), - ye - was used when someone addresses to a person who is older or occupies higher social position.

In the 17 c. the so-called "Code of Politeness" was issued. According to it addressing 'thou" was very rude. In ME there are "thou" and "thee"in some territorial dialects.