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An '''auxiliary (verb)''' is a [[verb]]-like [[function word]] that combines with a [[main verb]] and typically helps to express various concepts of [[tense]], [[aspect]] or [[mood]], but may also be used for other functions such as valence-changing operations, [[negation]], or various notions that are expressed by [[adverb]]s in other languages.

::*''"For a number of authors, including the present one, the use of the term ''auxiliary'' is primarily associated with a limited range of notional domains, most of all with the domains of tense, aspect, and modality... In quite a few works, however, the term is applied to a much wider range of grammatical and/or lexical phenomena including expressions serving derivative, pro-verb-like, adpositional and other purposes...and, in fact, up to now there does not appear to be any typologically meaningful way of delimiting the range of conceptual, morphosyntactic or other properties that an auxiliary, or a "canonical auxiliary" for that matter, should exhibit..."'' (Heine 1993:5)
::*''"'Auxiliary verb' is here considered to be an item on the lexical verb–functional affix continuum, which tends to be at least somewhat semantically bleached, and grammaticalized to express one or more of a range of salient verbal categories, most typically aspectual and modal categories, but also not infrequently temporal, negative polarity, or voice categories."'' (Anderson 2006:4-5)

===Term properties===
''Auxiliary verb'' and its short form ''auxiliary'' are used interchangeably, because grammarians do not talk about "auxiliary nouns", "auxiliary adjectives", or other kinds of auxiliary words.

===Examples===
'''''is''' going, '''has''' gone, '''will''' go, '''may''' go, '''doesn't''' go
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===Synonym===
*[[helping verb]]

===Origin===
The adjective ''auxiliary'' means 'helping' (Latin ''auxilium'' 'help'): Auxiliaries "help" the main verb express certain notions that cannot be expressed directly with inflectional means on it. The term has been attested in English since the 18th century.

===See also===
*[[auxiliation]]

===References===
*Anderson, Gregory D.S. 2006. ''Auxiliary verb constructions.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press.
*Heine, Bernd. 1993. ''Auxiliaries: Cognitive forces and grammaticalization.'' New York: Oxford University Press.

===Other languages===
German [[Hilfsverb]], [[Auxiliarverb]]

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 *Anderson, Gregory D.S. 2006. ''Auxiliary verb constructions.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press.
 *Heine, Bernd. 1993. ''Auxiliaries: Cognitive forces and grammaticalization.'' New York: Oxford University Press.
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