
Conlangery #88: Ancient Greek (natlang)
Conlangery Podcast
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The Orthography of Ancient Greek
Ver verb telicity interacts with aspect in interesting and nifty ways, particularly in the perfective and imperfective system distinction. An atylic verb with a perfective meaning can have an encoded sense of starting something or trying to do something. Ancient Greek has giant piles of discourse particles that dance together in not necessarily intuitive ways. There are several literary dialects in ancient Greek based on local dialects.
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