Handling of Auxiliaries in Kannada Morphology

Study of auxiliaries from a morphological perspective is extremely interesting from the semantic and pragmatic points of view, and they still await detailed and careful study.This paper deals with the role played by auxiliaries in Kannada Morphology. Two kinds of auxiliaries are indicated in the Kannada language, namely, aspect auxiliaries and modal auxiliaries. These auxiliaries are useful information of derivative stems in Kannada verbs. Many of these aspect auxiliaries are used as verbalizers to derive verbs from nouns and verbs from adjectives. Auxiliaries play a very important role in Morphology of Dravidian languages like Kannada. They are useful in the complex verb formation process. Aspect markers have a major role in verb morphology. This paper explores the distribution of non-finite auxiliaries and modal auxiliaries as part of the morphological analyser in Standard Kannada. Auxiliaries form the basis for the formation of multiple stems in Morphology when they are not used separately like in the English language.