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Conlangery #106: Auxiliary Verb Constructions

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The Semantics of the Lexical Verb

One thing we've really not talked about at all is the semantics of the lexical verb Sometimes the event structure things like Tealicity might place constraints on What kind of auxiliary verb constructions a verb can occur in. It's worth paying attention to that because then they're Obviously with any part of conlanging you can dive deep into a rabbit hole of details Right Um, but it's worth thinking about at least briefly even if you don't want to go bonkers with it. Yeah, so that's uh A whole lot of stuff. I hope people You know go and look at this and both of these papers are freely available in key form on the internet And then read them love

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