Raba glagola biti sem v slovenskem knjižnem jeziku 16. stoletja

This article outlines the basic morphological, semantic, and related syntactic characteristics of the usage of the verb biti sem ‘to be, am’ in sixteenth-century standard Slovenian. Based on materials collected for lexicographic purposes, it includes a complete list of all preserved Slovenian printed works from the second half of the sixteenth century. Due to its double functionality (full verb and auxiliary verb), the verb biti ‘to be’ was one of the most frequently used words in the sixteenth century.Sestavek ima namen predstaviti osnovne oblikoslovne, pomenske in z njimi povezane skladenjske značilnosti rabe glagola biti sem v slovenskem knjižnem jeziku 16. stoletja. Prikaz temelji na analizi gradiva, zbranega za slovarske namene s popolnim izpisom vseh ohranjenih slovenskih tiskanih del iz druge polovice 16. stoletja. Glagol biti je zaradi svoje dvojne funkcionalnosti (polnopomenski in pomožni glagol) hkrati tudi ena izmed najpogosteje rabljenih besed v 16. stoletju