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Re: Tensed Pronouns (was: Tagalog ...)

From:Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Date:Friday, March 5, 1999, 8:34
Hmmm.  That sounds an awful lot like Teonaht.  I've described this construction
repeatedly, and concluded by the overall silence that I had come up with something
unique.  However, T's use of this is as a prefix to the pronoun.

Sally Caves
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/teonaht.html
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John Cowan wrote:

> Tim Smith scripsit: > > > That sounds like Hausa, which has the tense marking on the subject pronoun > > rather than on the verb. > > Here are some "tensed pronouns" from a rather better-known lang: > > Tense/mood 1sg 2sg+pl 3sg/m 3sg/f 3sg/n 1p 3p > > Unmarked @j j@ i Si @t wi De > Conditional @jd j@d id Sid @t@d wid Dejd > Immediate future Ajm@n@ jug@n@ ig@n@ Sig@n@ Ig@n@ wig@n@ Dejg@n@ > Future Ajl jul il Sil It@l wil Dejl > > -- > John Cowan cowan@ccil.org > e'osai ko sarji la lojban.