Part of
Autour des verbes: Constructions et interprétationsSous la direction de Kozué Ogata
[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa 29] 2013
► pp. 163–184
We discuss the syntactic properties of N0 V de N1 of changer, in opposition to N0 V N1, from a corpus analysis. In N0 V N1 (Max a changé sa voiture), the referent of N1, direct object, changes, whether modified or replaced. In N0 V de N1 (Max a changé de voiture), on the other hand, N1, which does not admit a determiner, does not refer to a specific entity and indicates a category. Thus the referent of N1 is not affected by the change. The indirect object de N1 of changer is distinguished from de N1 of other verbs which admits determiners and answers the question: “De quoi V N0 ?”, such as parler, traiter, servir, etc
Article language: French