Abstract
This MTA SZTAKI Working Paper from 1982 provides a finite state reanalysis of
the context-free description of the English auxiliary system given in A
phrase structure grammar of the English auxiliary system (Stanford Working
Papers in Grammatical Theory 1.A1-A124, 1980) which was later expanded and
published as Auxiliaries and related phenomena in a restrictive theory of
grammar [Gerald Gazdar, Geoffrey K. Pullum, and Ivan A. Sag.] Language
58 591-638.
