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» FORMATION OF THE CATEGORY OF POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS IN THE UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE

FORMATION OF THE CATEGORY OF POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS IN THE UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE

Journal section: Research articles
Language: Ukrainian

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37919/3083-6212.2025.2.41-63

Ruslana KOTSA

Candidate of Sciences in Philology, Senior Researcher in the Department of History of the Ukrainian Language and Onomastics, Institute of the Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2074-2250
e-mail: rgomonai@ukr.net

 

The article presents a comprehensive historical and derivational analysis of the possessive pronouns of the Ukrainian language, tracing the evolution of their forms from the Proto-Slavic period to Modern Ukrainian. Drawing on a wide corpus of written sources, the study examines the structural and semantic features as well as the functional and stylistic uses of the possessive pronouns мій, твій, свій, the third-person forms його, її, їхній, and the plural pronouns наш, ваш together with their derivatives across different stages of language development. The formal models underlying all attested forms are identified, and their semantic nuances, grammatical properties, and domains of usage are characterized. Special attention is devoted to the possessive pronouns of the third person — particularly their etymology, morphological structure, and syntactic functions — as well as to the identification of archaic and innovative features and the degree of their correspondence to or divergence from cognate forms in other Slavic languages.

Keywords: pronouns, word formation, Ukrainian language, diachrony.


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