Inspired by the previous post, I came up with a simpler related concept. An auxiliary that does not code anything related to the meaning of the verb itself, but codes things for several arguments of the verb.
The idea is for some polysynthetic-style conlang, the verb normally would have congruence for something like {subject, object, indirect object, maybe some other things}and whenever certain conditions are met for a given NP, an auxiliary is added to the VP whose sole role is marking congruence with arguments taht meet those conditions - e.g. definiteness, count noun-ness, etc.
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