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 ===Verbs===
-Verbal expressions in Nankôre require at a minimum both a main verb and a copula.  Marking for tense, aspect, number, voice and mood are divided between both the verb and the copula, or the coverb and the copula (see Positional, Motion, and Coverb section below).
+Verbal expressions in Nankôre require at a minimum an initial verb, plus the copula.  An initial verb may be the main verb itself, or an auxiliary verb may precede it.  A sort of division of labor exists between these components components; a certain set of clitics or affixes may attach to one of the components, and another to another.
+The following set of markers cliticize to the first verb of the VP.  If the main verb is the initial verb, they will cliticize to it:
+*Initial Verb
+#Inverse
+#Aspect
+However, a set of bound morphemes, occurring as suffixes, attach exclusively to the main verb, regardless if it is the initial verb or not:
+*Main Verb
+#Evidentials
+Finally, the copula hosts the folowing set of morphemes, which are not clitics but actual affixes:
+*Copula
+#Inverse
+#Tense
+#Number
+#Voice
+#Irrealis
 ====The Verb Typology====
-Positional-Motion-Coverbals
+Positional-Motion
+Coverbs
 Main
 Copula

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