AUX: auxiliary
Definition
An auxiliary is a function word that accompanies the lexical verb of a verb phrase and expresses grammatical distinctions not carried by the lexical verb, such as person, number, tense, mood, aspect, voice or evidentiality.. In Slovenian, the AUX tag is used for the verb biti “to be” accompanying a lexical verb (e.g. Tistega večera sem preveč popil. “I drank too much that evening.”) and in copula constructions (To je. grozno. “This is horrible.”).
In all other cases (e.g. content verb), biti is marked as verb.
Examples
- Tistega večera sem.
AUXpreveč popil.VERB. “I drank too much that evening.” - V bolnišnici bodo.
AUXuvedli.VERBšolo za starše. “A parenting school will be introduced in the hospital.” -
Kam bi.
AUXse lahko zatekla.VERB? “Where could she have hidden?” - To je.
AUXgrozno. “This is horrible.” - Za nami je.
AUXdolga vrsta. “There is a long queue behind us.” - Vsi smo.
AUXbili.AUXzadovoljni. “We were all content.”
Conversion from JOS
In JOS-annotated ssj500k, all instances of verb biti “to be” have been annotated as Type=auxiliary. To separate the actual auxiliary function from other functions, a combination of syntax-based heuristics and manual disambiguation has been used.
AUX in other languages: [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [cy] [da] [el] [en] [es] [et] [fi] [fro] [fr] [ga] [grc] [gub] [hu] [hy] [it] [ja] [ka] [kk] [kpv] [ky] [myv] [no] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [sv] [tr] [tt] [uk] [u] [urj] [xcl] [yue] [zh]