Essai d’interprétation fonctionnelle des tables du Lexique-Grammaire
- Author(s): Yoichiro Tsuruga
- Source: Lexique, Syntaxe et Lexique-Grammaire / Syntax, Lexis & Lexicon-Grammar , pp 601-611
- Publication Date July 2004
In French, there are verbs that permit an interesting correspondence between N0 V N1 de N2 and N0 V N2 Loc N1 (Loc: a locative preposition). The correspondence between N0 V N1 de N2 and N2 V N1 is very close (84.0 %): 743 of 884 verbs), and so is the one between N0 V N1 avec N2 and N2 V N1 (88.1 % : 516 of 586 verbs) and the one between N0 V N1 de N2 and N0 V N1 avec N2 (66.3 %: 586 of 884 verbs). Different combinations of the four constructions N0 V N1 de N2, N0 V N2 Loc N1, N0 V N1 avec N2 and N2 V N1 variously account for the verbs taking N0 V N1 de N2. The verbs that accept the three former constructions but refuse only the fourth are very exceptional (1.5 % : 13 of 884 verbs), while those that refuse only the second are more numerous (46.2 %). The correspondence between N0 V N1 de N2 and N0 V N2 Loc N1 is in fact the least frequent (21.4 %). There are clear semantic and functional factors that control these tendencies. The tight correspondence between N0 V N1 de N2 and N2 V N1, for example, indicates clearly that the element functioning as the "materials" relation, with de, can also function very easily as subject of the same verb. It is important to try to bring out such fundamental functional information in the "Lexique-Grammaire" tables.
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