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Conlangery #132: Coptic (natlang)

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The Complexity of the Verb Complex

We got really super complicated verbs on top of some inflection on prepositions and such. So it seems like this language is, you know, definitely very synthetic. And I like that you are sort of explaining to me that sort of these auxiliaries got stuck onto the verbs. And that's part of the grammaticalization process. Yes. Some of the stuff that we have is not really clear that the auxiliaries have become like part of the verb. At least when I was skimming it. That's an interesting thing. But again, I can't say here to start reading all of the different things these can do. We have some resources for you.

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