Auxiliary Verb

AKA: Helping/Grammatical Verb Class.
- …
Example(s):
- “must”
- “could”, “should” “shall”
- be, am, is, are, was, were, being, been
- can, may
- “do”, “did”, … “doeth” (in some Senses such as when substituting for another verb), e.g. "I feel better now than I did(feel)"
- have, has, had
- will, would
- “might”
Counter-Example(s):
- a Lexical Verb, such as: “walk”, “talk”
- “do”, “did”, … “doeth” (in some Senses such as when its an action), such as in "I did it"
- a Grammatical Noun.
See: Glossing Abbreviation, Clause (Linguistics), Grammatical Tense, Grammatical Aspect, Linguistic Modality, Voice (Grammar), Grammatical Mood, Grammatical Voice, Perfect Aspect.

References

(Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ http://wikipedia.org/wiki/auxiliary_verb Retrieved:2016-3-28.
- An auxiliary verb is a verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it appears — for example, to express tense, aspect, modality, voice, emphasis, etc. Auxiliary verbs usually accompany a main verb. The main verb provides the main semantic content of the clause. ^[1] An example is the verb have in the sentence I have finished my dinner. Here, the main verb is finish, and the auxiliary have helps to express the perfect aspect. Some sentences contain a chain of two or more auxiliary verbs. Auxiliary verbs are also called helping verbs, helper verbs, or (verbal) auxiliaries. They may be glossed with the abbreviation AUX.

↑ The Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, defines an auxiliary verb as "a verb used to form the tenses, moods, voices, etc. of other verbs." OED Second Edition, 1989. Entry for auxiliary.

(WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=auxiliary%20verb
- S: (n) auxiliary verb (a verb that combines with another verb in a verb phrase to help form tense, mood, voice, or condition of the verb it combines with)
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/auxiliary_verb
- Noun
  - 1. (grammar) A verb that accompanies the main verb in a clause in order to make distinctions in tense, mood, voice or aspect.

(Crystal, 2008) ⇒ David Crystal. (2008). “A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 6th edition." Blackwell Publishing.
- QUOTE: lexis (n.) A term used in LINGUISTIC to refer to the vocabulary of a LANGUAGE … A UNIT of vocabulary is generally referred to as a lexical item, or LEXEME. A complete inventory of the lexical items of a language constitutes that language's dictionary, or LEXICON … 'in the lexicon' as a set of lexical entries. … … Lexis may be seen in contrast with GRAMMAR, as in the distinction between grammatical WORDS and lexical words: the former refers to words whose sole function is to signal grammatical relationships (a role which is claimed for such words as of, to and the in English); the latter refers to words which have lexical meaning, i.e. they have semantic CONTENT. Examples include lexical verbs (versus auxiliary verbs) and lexical noun phrases (versus non-lexical NPs, such as PRO). A similar contrast distinguishes lexical morphology from derivational MORPHOLOGY.