In the binary construction “Subject-Predicate (= Copula-Complement)”: Luc est gai, Subject is presupposed for Complement, while it is not indispensable in impersonal complement constructions. Sembler requires always a complement: *Que Luc chante semble – Il semble que Luc chante, where que Luc… read more
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 %… read more