AUX: auxiliary verb
Description
Auxiliary verb is a verb carrying some of the verb phrase’s features or categories. It has not been very systematically dealt with in traditional Uralic grammars. Most languages have selected a closed sub-set of verbs. For example verbs that have infinitive complements, verbs for syntactic tense constructions, verbs used in possessive structures, etc.
Negation verbs are not currently marked as AUX, even when they carry the main
verb’s inflectional features (only in Finnish of current tree-banks).
Examples
- [fi] on tullut “has come”, olisi vienyt “would’ve taken”
- [fi] pitää olla “must be”
~~~ conllu # sentence-text: Grande finalen pitää olla grande, eikä pienestä lurituksesta tule muuta kuin kiukkuiseksi. 1 Grande Grande X Foreign Foreign=Foreign 5 nsubj:cop _ _ 2 finalen finale X Foreign Foreign=Foreign 1 foreign _ _ 3 pitää pitää AUX V Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act 5 aux _ _ 4 olla olla VERB V InfForm=1|Number=Sing|VerbForm=Inf|Voice=Act 5 cop _ _ 5 grande grande X Foreign Foreign=Foreign 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT Punct _ 5 punct _ _ 7 eikä ei VERB V Clitic=Ka|Negative=Neg|Number=Sing|Person=3|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act 5 cc _ _ 8 pienestä pieni ADJ A Case=Ela|Degree=Pos|Number=Sing 9 amod _ _ 9 lurituksesta luritus NOUN N Case=Ela|Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 10 tule tulla VERB V Connegative=Yes|Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 muuta muu PRON Pron Case=Par|Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 xcomp _ _ 12 kuin kuin SCONJ C _ 13 mark _ _ 13 kiukkuiseksi kiukkuinen ADJ A Case=Tra|Degree=Pos|Number=Sing 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT Punct _ 5 punct _ _ ~̃~~
AUX in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]