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Sur la sélection des attributs par le verbe devenir

Danielle Leeman | Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (France), UMR 5191 « ICAR » (CNRS & ENS- Université de Lyon)

Wajih Guehria | Centre Universitaire de Souk-ahras (Algérie), UMR 7114 « MoDyCo » (CNRS & Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense)

Traditionally, the verb devenir is arranged in the verbs of state, whose syntactic definition is to introduce an attribute of the subject. However, is definitely distinguished from those verbs, concerning both the subcategorization and the selection. We test here the prepositional phrases for the assumptions previously developed, in order to explain the distributional possibilities and impossibilities weighing on the predicative adjective. It follows from this study (relating only to 30% of the words or expressions inventoried by Larousse de base, dictionary which includes only the most current French vocabulary) that, if there remains a small percentage of terms escaping from it, the advanced proposals prove overall satisfactory. From this point of view, prepositional phrases behave like free words or syntagms.

Published online: 06 September 2013
https://doi.org/10.1075/lis.29.05lee