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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

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]