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Conlangery #106: Auxiliary Verb Constructions

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The Different Types of Verb Constructions

Split and split doubled are the two that are Most unlike anything. I've seen in very many natural languages frankly. The lexical verb has all of the marking for subject object tense aspect mood Um, and the auxiliary looks like a particle like a tense particle or a mood particle Which is probably why this is very controversial To reticle right sometimes it can be a little tricky to see that this is really an auxiliary verb construction and not genuinely a particle Whatever that means the problem of course is that particle is the dumping ground for everything.

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