TriCons Notes: Auxiliaries

[qiihoskeh]

I'll continue to edit this.

Auxiliaries and Moods

The mood marked on a complement verb, or implied for an infinitive, may depend on the auxiliary. Some auxiliary verboids (listed in groups) are:

Attitudinals:
* possibility, likelyhood, logical necessity
* advisability, obligation, necessary [for some purpose]
* mental ability, physical ability
* desire (+ possibility, likelyhood, etc.)

For most of these, the complement verb takes the subjunctive, but for logical necessity, it takes the indicative.

Evidentials:
* deduce, ?
* also: see, hear, smell, taste, touch can be used as evidentials.

For most of these, the complement verb takes the indicative.

Causatives

Action verbals can be used as causative auxiliaries. The complement verb takes the indicative. When the A1 arguments are the same an infinitive can be used, as with any auxiliary.

Ditransitive Auxiliaries

The implied A1 actant of an infinitive coreferences the A1 actant of the auxiliary. The inverse form of the auxiliary can be used to coreference the "donor" rather than the "recipient" for the word with the basic meaning "give". The direct form means that the donor lets or helps the recipient while the inverse form means that the donor does something for the recipient. The word with basic meaning "take" works in a similar fashion.