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aux: auxiliary

The relation aux is used between a predicative marker and a predicate. Auxiliaries are used to express TAM and polarity values.

# visual-style 3 2 aux	color:blue
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1	a	à	PRON	_	_	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ye	ye	AUX	_	_	4	aux	_	_
3	ji	jí	NOUN	_	_	4	obj	_	_
4	kè	kɛ́	VERB	_	_	0	root	_	_
5	a	à	PRON	_	_	4	obl	_	_
6	la	lá	ADP	_	_	5	case	_	_
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	4	punct	_	_

‘He made a water of this’.

Moreover, the relation aux is used with a marker of retrospective tùn, which formally behaves as a particle. We chose a relation aux for it, as semantically it is a TAM auxiliary.

# visual-style 6 2 aux  color:blue
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1	ne	nê	PRON	_	_	6	nsubj	_	_
2	tun	tùn	AUX	_	_	6	aux	_	_
3	ye	ye	AUX	_	_	6	aux	_	_
4	kegunya	kègun.ya	NOUN	_	_	6	obj	_	_
5	wèrè	wɛ́rɛ	DET	_	_	4	det	_	_
6	di	dí	VERB	_	_	0	root	_	_
7	i	í	PRON	_	_	6	obl	_	_
8	ma	mà	ADP	_	_	7	case	_	_

‘I gave another cunning to you’.


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