Pronominal ordering in Plngawan Atayal

As in many languages, personal pronouns in Plngawan Atayal are usually clitics. If two such pronouns co-occur in a clause, they form a cluster with strict ordering relative to each other. This study deals with two problems: how personal pronouns are ordered and, if two pronouns co-occur, what the restrictions are. First, some background about the language is given, including its inventory of personal pronouns. Next, the cluster-internal and -external ordering are reported, and the four combination types are divided into whether or not there are two overt pronominal forms in the clitic cluster. An Optimality-theoretic analysis is then proposed.