Re: [edict-jmdict] aux, aux-v, aux-adj

[Jean-Luc Léger <reiga@****************>]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:15:43 +0900, Brandon Kentel <bkentel@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Do these overlap? What determines which group a word belong to? 
> Currently the distinction seems to be blurred based on a few searched I 
> did. The way I see it:
> 
> aux-adj: helper words that conjugate as modern i-adjs
>    ない、ほしい、らしい、やすい、づらい etc
> 
> aux-v: helper verbs that alter the meaning of the preceding word
>    はじめる、おわる、かける、こむ、だす
> 
> aux: everything else (classical conjugations, helper verbs, and 
> conjugations thereof)
>    ぬ、む、べき、なかれ、き、けり
> 
> Also, should aux(-x) automatically imply [suf]?
> 
> For example, ほしい would have a sense or separate entry marked as ほし 
> い[adj-i, aux-adj, suf]; はじめる one as [v1, aux-v, suf] and ぬ one as 
> [aux, suf]
> 
> Thoughts?

auxiliaries have been on my Todo list for some time now.
I thought that they should be managed like expressions : a tag (aux) to
mark them as auxiliaries and a secondary tag to indicate the PoS of the
resulting compound. I mean :
- [aux-adj] would be replaced by [aux, adj-i] or [aux, adj-na]
- [aux-v] would be replaced by [aux, v1/v5...]

A gloss or sense info should tell after which kind of words it can be
used. For this reason, auxiliaries must be kept in a separate sense when
the aux word can also be used alone (i.e. ほしい or はじめる)

As for adding automaticaly (or not) a [suf] tag, I can't see what for.

 JL