Re: adjectives and adverbs

Hi!

caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> writes:
> --- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Henrik Theiling <theiling@A...> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> >In Mandarin Chinese, it's often hard to tell.  I noticed this in a
> >construction that is different in German and English:
>
> >  English:    I like to drink beer.        auxiliary 'to like'
> >  German:     Ich trinke gerne Bier.       adverb 'gerne'
>
> I don't believe that "to like" is an auxiliary verb in English.  It
> can take a direct object (I like him) as well as a complementary
> infinitive.
Agreed! :-)

But this wasn't so much my point: the opposition between verbs
(particularly auxilaries) and adverbs was what I meant.  I used
'auxiliaries' not like a lexical category, but meant any verb that
modifies that verb that takes the object (if any).  In this sence,
whether 'like' is an *auxiliary depends on the sentence it is used in.

What's the correct term for this?

**Henrik