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6. Indefinite and negative pronouns
English indefinite pronouns. In grammatical tradition the class of indefinite pronouns is said to include some, any, every (and their compounds something, anything, somebody, anybody, someone, anyone) all, each, either, much, many, few, little, etc., that is words of different lexical and grammatical nature.
Ukrainian indefinite pronouns: дехто, дещо, хтосъ, щосъ, хто-небудъ, що-небудь, який-небудъ, будь-хто, будъ-гцо, казна-що, казна-хто, абихто, абиякий, etc. are built from the corresponding interrogative pronouns by adding particles -небудъ, ката-, хтозна-, аби-, де-, -съ. They are used to point towards unknown, indefinite objects and their qualities, e.g.: Хтосъ задихаетъся над ними - хто це, хто це? (I. Драч).
Following is the contrastive analysis of indefinite pronouns in both languages. These pronouns in English and in Ukrainian leave the unclear or non-defined notion about some object, person or quality, characteristics or quantity of objects.
The characteristic feature of these pronouns in both languages is the tendency to differentiate the person and the non-person (compare in English somebody, something; in Ukrainian дещо, дехто; щосъ, хтосъ).
hi English the meaning and the usage of pronouns of this class often depends on syntactic factors: pronouns some, any; something,
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anything; somebody, anybody and others can render the similar meaning in different types of sentences {some and its derivatives - in affirmative sentences, any and its derivatives - in interrogative and negative sentences). On the other hand, pronouns that have any in I heir structure have different meanings in interrogative or negative and affirmative sentences. Ukrainian indefinite pronouns, vice versa, have stable, forever attached to them lexical meaning, which does not depend on the syntactic context and is not changed according to the sentence type.
The English indefinite pronouns somebody, anybody and someone, anyone, which denote the person, have the forms of common and possessive cases and can be used in the function of attribute {somebody's bag "чийсъ портфель"). The rest of nouns of I his type are unchangeable.
In Ukrainian all indefinite pronouns have the category of case, and those with interrogative pronouns чий, який in their structure -also have the category of gender and number. Altogether, Ukrainian interrogative, relative and indefinite pronouns possess the category of case, e.g.: хто, кого, кому, кого, ким, на кому (на кгм). Ukrainian interrogative-relative pronouns of the type чий have categories of case, number and gender, e.g.: чий, чие, чия, чш; чий, чийого, чийому, чиш, на чийому.
English indefinite pronouns some, any are often used as noun determiners, being almost similar to articles [5; 66-67].