
Conlangery #110: Copulae
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The Copula Subject in Classical Chinese
Once something is unambiguously a copula, it becomes available for use in the many auxiliary constructions that use a copula. The imperfectives, progressives, all of that sort of stuff that we talked about a few episodes back that B and B like verbs can become. Once that happens, off you go. And there's other places where you get things moved to the left and, and you got some, some, some pronoun or demonstrative inserted,. Or you can just have something like inserted just as sort of like an emphasis type of thing. But it's, it'ssort of, you can see where like, talk toization or focus can end up facing these things in
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