Difference between revisions of "MD"

Revision as of 08:55, 13 April 2010

Only verbs with modal meaning that take bare infinitives are tagged as MD:

mega 'may', munu 'will', skulu 'shall', vilja 'want, will'

This includes GETA when it functions as a modal and takes a past participle complement (see Treatment of individual words).

Verbs with modal meaning that take að-marker (to) and an infinitive are not tagged as MD but as main verbs taking IP-INF:

eiga 'ought to', fá 'be allowed to', hljóta 'must', kunna 'can', þurfa 'need to', verða 'must', ætla 'intend'

if a verb that usually takes the að-marker for some reason does not, and does not have modal meaning, it is still parsed as taking IP-INF.

( (IP-MAT (NP-SBJ (PRO-A Hann-hann))
          (VBPI langar-langa)
          (IP-INF (VB fara-fara))))