Questions tagged [auxiliary-verbs]
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Are auxiliaries not lexical?
Anderson's Essentials of Linguistics says:
Auxiliaries are what you might have called “helping verbs” when you
first learned about grammar: they help a lexical verb by providing
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Temporal interpretation of raising constructions
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Consider the below sentence.
Terry seems to be annoyed.
In this sentence, the verb 'seem' is a raising verb: it raises the argument in 'Terry' out of a lower clause ('It seems ...
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List of Lexical and Auxiliary verbs [closed]
I am wanting to know if anyone knows where I get a list of the verbs that are Lexical and Auxiliary. Not what the differences are, but what the actual verbs are. And maybe which are which. I've tried ...
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Why did auxiliary verbs in Kazakh got completely merged into one word in Turkish?
Kazakh and Turkish belong to same language group.
But Kazakh is more archaic, Turkish is more modern.
In Kazakh, there are auxiliary verbs otur, jur , and jatir that become part of the word in Turkish:...
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Do all frameworks of syntax view the string following an inverted auxiliary verb in English as the complement of the auxiliary?
This is a follow-up question of an earlier question titled:
In X bar theory, is the first auxiliary the head of an interrogative clause and the remainder the complement?
In that question, I had this ...
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In X bar theory, is the first auxiliary the head of an interrogative clause and the remainder the complement?
In X bar theory, the first auxiliary is the head of a declarative clause:
(1) She will have finished it by tomorrow.
Here, subject she is a specifier, and verb phrase have finished it by tomorrow is ...
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In generative grammar, is the first auxiliary always the head of an interrogative clause?
In generative grammar, be it transformational or not, is the first auxiliary always the head of an interrogative clause? For example, in (1), is the first auxiliary will always the head of (1)?
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Simple cases of gapping (verb ellipsis in coordinate structures)
What are some simple cases of V or Verb Phrase gaps?
For instance:
I love the location and the apartment.
Is this considered a gap (missing 'love' in the second conjunct)?
If not, why not?
What about ...
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How can we say modals are of category T, but auxiliaries are really verbs? [duplicate]
Are there any arguments or theories to account for it?
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Pattern of use of modal verbs across languages
So I am toying with language and understand how to treat basic verbs and nouns and adjectives. But I am stuck on modal verbs like "I should have gone home". I would like to know basically a cheat ...
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A question about Carnie's subcategories and features
From Carnie's "Syntax: A Generative Introduction":
This notation is not explicitly explained. What does it mean? (I'll write my conjecture below)
Recall that T is defined as follows:
So I guess the ...
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Can the first auxiliary verb be the specifier of a VP in the X-Bar theory?
As far as I know, the first auxiliary is normally treated as the head of a verb phrase (VP) in the X-Bar theory.
He was writing a letter.
In this sentence, for example, the first auxiliary, was, ...
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What is the difference between lexical verb and copular verb?
What is the difference between "lexical verb" and "copular verb"?
Based on this source it seems that lexical verb it is just a simple verb (run, go, jump etc.)
"For example: He went to the store. ...
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Copulas and the Split VP Hypothesis
Copulas are regarded as semantically vacuous auxiliaries merged in V, then raised to T. Lexical verbs are merged in V and are raised to v. I have not found any literature discussing the copula with ...
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Auxiliaries in generative grammar
In a course of introduction to Generative Grammar, my teacher told that auxiliary (Aux in the tree diagram) is the element that comes before the subject (NP) in an interrogative sentence.
But I found ...
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Why is it that the wh-word as a subject in the spec position cannot raise over an auxiliary verb like 'did'?
When the question word is the subject of the clause, there is no aux verb, eg 'Who saw you?'. I understand this, but why is 'who did see you?' also correct, with respect to Chomsky's linguistic theory ...
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What is the meaning difference between have+V versus bare V?
In some dialects of English, there seems to be a clear(er) difference between past tense verbs with the auxiliary have as in “I have eaten the pie”, and those without, as in “I ate the pie”. The only ...
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French Auxiliary Selection. Theoretical explanations?
I've heard that Generative Approaches trying to explain Auxiliary Selection are mostly focused in Italian, because its a language which intransitive verbs respond pretty well to unaccusativity ...
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Do auxiliary verbs always express different aspect/mood/tense?
Do auxiliary verbs always serve to express a mood or aspect that is different from simple indicative (or a tense)? Or are there cases where a sentence is in simple-indicative-present with the presence ...
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"Two tier" theoretical epistemic modality
Quite recently I have noticed that most Bavarian verbs can become theoretical epistemic modal. What I mean by that is that you can take any verb, e.g. "[i] ko" - "[I] can", and turn it into it's ...
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Is there any language where the "copula" is also identical with and function as an "auxiliary verb"?
Are there languages where the "copula" is:
invariant morphologically but may be phonologically conditioned (not inflected for any features like tense, number, etc. like English "is/was/were"),
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If two verbs are in a row, is the first always an Auxiliary? [closed]
Consider the sentence:
He has gone.
This is one of the example auxiliary verb sentences from:
"Radford, A. English syntax: An introduction, Cambridge University Press, 2004"
has is an auxiliary ...
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Why is 'be' sometimes the auxiliary verb for the present perfect?
1. Why do these 16 verbs require être as the auxiliary verb, to form the passé composé in French?
2. Abbreviated as DMPRRS, these 6 (of the 16) are ambitransitive. When transitive, their auxiliary ...
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Are there any languages that don't have/use auxiliaries?
Question pretty much says it all, I'm curious as to whether every language uses/requires auxiliary verbs to express tense/modality/aspect etc.? Thanks.
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Different kinds of do's
At first I thought that there was only such a thing as lexical do and periphrastic, but recently I stumbled upon something else (unfortunately I do not recall what it was called). Whatever be the case,...
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