Re: Description question

David Stokes scripsit:

> Hausa marks tense distinctions on the subject pronouns, not the verbs.
Since these so-called subject pronouns are mandatory, appearing even when
there is an explicit subject noun phrase, it seems clear to me that they
are tense+person+number-marking auxiliaries, *not* pronouns.

But the language is fascinating anyway, to see how the Afro-Asiatic
underpinnings are re-used in an entirely different way from Semitic or
Egyptian.

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