Tagalog pronoun profile (WALS Chs 39, 40, 44–48) #
@cite{wals-2013} @cite{himmelmann-2005-tagalog}
Pronoun paradigm (Himmelmann 2005 Table 12.2, p. 358) #
ANG-FORM NG-FORM SA-FORM
1.SG akó ko akin
2.SG ikáw / ka mo iyo / iyó
3.SG siyá niyá kaniyá
1.DU.IN kitá / katá nitá kanitá
1.PL.IN tayo natin atin
1.PL.EX kamí namin amin
2.PL kayó ninyó inyó
3.PL silá nilá kanilá
@cite{himmelmann-2005-tagalog} labels the columns SPEC / POSS(GEN) / LOC(DAT) (p. 358; the sa-form of personal pronouns and personal names is glossed DAT rather than LOC because of distributional differences). @cite{kroeger-1991-thesis} (p. 14, ex. 12) uses the cleaner labels NOMINATIVE / GENITIVE / DATIVE, explicitly rejecting the older "topic"/"complement" terminology.
Clusivity (system-level) #
Tagalog instantiates Cysouw's minimal-augmented type (@cite{cysouw-2009}):
the inclusive splits into a minimal 1du.in form (1+2 only, "we two") and
an augmented tayo (1+2+others — speaker + addressee + additional
referents, of any number; @cite{schachter-otanes-1972} p. 89 glosses it
as "you (singular) and I (and others)" / "you (plural) and I"); the
exclusive kami remains a single category. This is a finer typological
cut than WALS Ch 39's binary incl/excl coding can express, which is why
the WALS-shaped inclusiveExclusive field below underdetermines the
paradigm.
The kitá / katá cell warrants care. @cite{schachter-otanes-1972} Chart 7 (p. 88) tabulates the 1du.in NOM as kata (with nita/kanita GEN/DAT) — and adds a separate portmanteau kita (p. 89) that combines 1sg.GEN with 2sg.NOM (occurring "in place of the non-occurring sequences \*ko ka and \*ka ko", e.g. in 'I [verb] you' constructions). @cite{himmelmann-2005-tagalog}'s Table 12.2 lists kitá / katá together as the 1.DU.IN ang-form, conflating these. S&O (p. 89) further note that "the dual non-plural pronouns are obsolescent in educated Manila Tagalog, and many speakers do not use them at all, using the dual plural tayo/natin/atin for 'you (singular) and I' as well as 'you (plural) and I'." The minimal-augmented classification therefore reflects the historical/textbook system; modern colloquial Manila Tagalog effectively collapses to plain inclExcl.
Tagalog (Austronesian, Philippine). Inclusive/exclusive in independent pronouns (kami vs tayo); no person marking on verbs (WALS); no gender distinctions (siya is gender-neutral); multiple politeness distinctions (ikaw/kayo/po); existential construction for indefinite reference; intensifier (mismo) differentiated from reflexive (sarili); no adpositions per WALS Ch 48.
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Tagalog pronoun phonological shape (WALS Chs 136–137): no M-T; no /m/ in 1SG (ako); no N-M; /m/ present in 2SG (mo).
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Tagalog clusivity system per @cite{cysouw-2009}: minimal-augmented,
with the historical 1-dual-inclusive kata
(@cite{schachter-otanes-1972} p. 88) alongside the augmented-inclusive
tayo and the exclusive kami. Modern Manila Tagalog has largely
lost the dual; this field reflects the textbook paradigm, not
colloquial usage. Refines the binary WALS Ch 39 value
pronounProfile.inclusiveExclusive = some .inclusiveExclusive.
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A row of the Tagalog pronoun paradigm: a Cysouw 2009 person/number category and its three case forms.
- category : Features.Person.Category
- angForm : String
ang-form (SPEC / NOM).
- ngForm : String
ng-form (POSS / GEN).
- saForm : String
sa-form (LOC / DAT).
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The Tagalog independent-pronoun paradigm per @cite{schachter-otanes-1972} Chart 7 (p. 88), mapped onto Cysouw 2009 categories.
The 1.DU.IN.NOM cell is kata per S&O Chart 7; the kitá form @cite{himmelmann-2005-tagalog} Table 12.2 lists alongside katá is in S&O p. 89 a separate portmanteau combining 1sg.GEN with 2sg.NOM (in 'I [verb] you' clauses), not a 1du.in pronoun.
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The categories enumerated by the paradigm are exactly Cysouw's
canonical ordering (singulars first, then groups). Subsumes a
length = Category.all.length claim.
Cross-substrate consistency: the paradigm includes a minimal-inclusive row iff the language commits to the minimal-augmented clusivity system. The forward direction encodes the minimal-augmented type's definition (a separate "we two" form for speaker + addressee only); the converse here holds because Tagalog has both.
The WALS Ch 39 image of Tagalog's Cysouw clusivity system agrees with
the WALS-side commitment in pronounProfile.inclusiveExclusive. This
catches drift if either commitment changes without the other.