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some grammatical peculiarities: 1) personal; 2) possessive;
3) reflexive; 4) demonstrative; 5) interrogative; 6) connective;
7) reciprocal; 8) indefinite; 9) negative; 10) quantitative;
11) contrasting. Also they state that a pronoun may belong to
more than one group at the same time. The pronoun whose may
be treated as interrogative (connective) and possessive.
In this turn the Ukrainian linguist O. D. Ponomariv
presents the following subdivision of Ukrainian pronouns into
classes (розряди займенників) in the book “Modern Ukrainian
language”: 1) personal pronouns; 2) the reflexive pronoun (себе),
3) possessive pronouns, 4) demonstrative, 5) defining,
6) interrogative, 7) relative, 8) indefinite, 9) negative.
It must be pointed out that in Ukrainian the pronoun is also
a notional part of speech which does not name objects, their
qualities and quantities but only indicate them. So the
differentiation of a pronoun as a part of speech is based upon its
peculiar semantics - the high level of the meaning of the
generalization.
Ukrainian pronouns are different in regard to their word-building
and word-changing characteristics. Ukrainian pronouns are
declinable, though each separate group of pronouns has its own
peculiarities of declining, e.g. personal pronouns are
characterized by: suppletivism - я, мене, мені, the ability of
prepositional and non-prepositional case forms – його, до нього;
the Ukrainian pronoun себе does not have the nominative case
form.
In both languages we differentiate simple, complex and
compound pronouns according to their morphological structure.
There are no derivative pronouns in these languages since
affixation is not used to form pronouns both in English and in
Ukrainian.

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