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Conlangery #110: Copulae

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Word Order in a Copula Construction

In Moten, your copula will typically fall in your subject or agent position and the copula complement in the object position. If you have a language with quote unquote free word order, you expect the word order to be a good deal less free in copula constructions. In many most languages, you don't have the different kinds of case marking to clarify what's doing.

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