This paper overviews data from different periods of modern Georgian to deal with multiple exponence of agreement markers in colloquial placeholder verbs in Georgian. A synchronic analysis of the phenomenon was given in (Harris in Multiple exponence, 2017). Within the classification offered in this book, Georgian placeholder verbs may illustrate the Type 2 (also called “alternating”) of the four types of multiple exponence. As it is known, there are several diachronic sources for the emergence of multiple exponence. It will be argued in this paper that Georgian placeholder verbs do not derive from those sources. The paper identifies two types of placeholder verbs: simple and complex, where simple ones are based on the bleached lexical verb do and the complex ones are build over the simple ones, resembling a nesting structure.
