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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
There are three kinds of proclitic adjectives and pronouns – (1) the possessives, (2) the indefinites and (3) the demonstratives and definite articles.
The possessives are the possessive pronouns (adjectives) min, pin, sin, uncer (incer does not occur as a possessive in Beowulf), ure, eower and the genitives his, hire, hira of the third person pronoun used possessively. The possessives of the first and second persons must be distinguished from the genitives of the personal pronouns which have the same forms (though never inflectional endings), but which are sentence particles rather than proclitics and are almost always emphatic. Likewise, the possessive genitives of the third person pronouns need to be distinguished from other non-possessivé genitives, though it is not always easy to do so.
The indefinites include the indefinite adjectives of quantity studied by Desmond Slay: ænig, eall, [fea], fela, monig, nænig and sum; together with genog, [lytel, læssa, læsest], micel, mara, mæst, nan and oðer. The forms in brackets are fully stressed adjectives.
The demonstratives and definite articles are swylc, pyslic and yica; se, seo, pæt and pes, peos, pis.
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