ABSTRACT
This chapter examines several types of pronouns. The most important and most widely encountered of these are the personal pronouns, which stand in place of people, places, or things that have been previously named in the discourse or are known from context. Others include demonstrative, interrogative, and prepositional pronouns. Reflexive pronouns are identical in person to the subject of the clause, reflecting an action performed on oneself. Reflexivity in Irish is indicated by the addition of fein‘self’ to the pronouns. Traditionally, the personal pronouns are never pronounced with stress on the pronoun. Pronouns used as possessors are placed before the noun they possess in the determiner position. These are always unstressed and may have mutation effects on the following noun.
