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Conlangery #106: Auxiliary Verb Constructions

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The Different Types of Converbs in the Languages of Turkey

The turkey languages show a lot of different variations on What kind of special marking the the um Lexical verb gets it can be a converb which is something that's sort of peculiar to turkey and mongolik languages. Converbs are effectively adverb forms of verbs, okay, so Expressions like while he was going He fell off the whores would be in the you know imperfective converb After he went He found the whores. That's the perfective. Some of them imply strongly that the subject is the same in both parts Both the converb clause and the main clause others are a little bit more flexible.

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