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====Existentials==== | ====Existentials==== | ||
Existential predicates indicate that something exists. In English, we use " | Existential predicates indicate that something exists. In English, we use "there is" or "there are" to indicate this. Brooding has | ||
its own verb for this: auplen. Like the copula, this is a verb and can have aspect, tense, negation, etc. | its own verb for this: ''auplen''. Like the copula, this is a verb and can have aspect, tense, negation, etc. | ||
In existentials, there is no object, we are just saying something exists | In existentials, there is no object, we are just saying something exists. | ||
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