Constructions transitives et causative attributive du verbe "faire"

Takuya Nakamura (1)

1 LIGM - Laboratoire d'Informatique Gaspard-Monge

French sentence structure "N faire de N N" is shown to present a three-way ambiguity, according to the use of the verb "faire": ordinary transitive and support (or light) "faire" constitute a transitive structure, but the third one, "causative operator faire" , makes a peculiar one in which a direct nominal (N) functions, not as a direct object, but as a indirect object ("de N") complement. As an operator, the verb takes as "operand" a particular type of copular sentence, i.e. identificational type, on the contrary to "rendre" and "mettre", well-known causative verbs, applied only to predicational type. "faire", "rendre" and "mettre" are in complementary distribution. Different possibilities of causative operators for different types of copular sentences are also discussed.

Mots clés: lexique-grammaire; verbe "faire" causatif attributif; Attribut de l'objet indirect

Domaines: Linguistique

Takuya Nakamura. Constructions transitives et causative attributive du verbe "faire". K. Ogata. Autour des verbes : constructions et interprétations, 29, John Benjamins, pp.59-86, 2013, Lingvisticae Investigationes Supplementa. ⟨hal-01586029⟩