Western Austronesian (Western Malayo-Polynesian) languages are categorised as either Philippine-type or Indonesian-type. While distinguishing between them is not always straightforward, there are a number of structural features which have been previously used to categorise each type.

One generalisation used to differentiate these two types relates to the placement and category of bound personal pronominals. This lecture examines the features of pronominal clitics in Tondano (a Philippine-type language of North Sulawesi) in comparison with the features commonly observed in Philippine-type and Indonesian-type pronominals.

A seminar presented by graduate student Tim Brickell for the Centre for the Centre for Research on Linguistic Diversity at La Trobe University.

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