We present a novel argument from Hausa (Chadic) for the analysis of
counterfactual Fake Tense as derived from a lexically underspecified
EXCL-operator (Iatridou 2000). Evidence comes from the facts (i.) that
Hausa has no morphosyntactic marking of tense, and (ii.) that//Fake
Tense in Hausa is not expressed by verbal morphology, but by a
left-peripheral operator 'daa' The analysis is cast in the
branching-world model, cf. von Prince (2019).
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(i.) the abstract; and (ii.) a slide-presentation of the poster's contents to click through. This is the link to a recording of an earlier presentation of the contents in the Frankfurt Semantics Colloquium:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qmwFbWzqLlt_-OMQDZ9uGFhtcozBqnaG/view