In this article we clarified the characteristics of the 'support verb constructions' (=SVC) in rumanian and solidified the status of SVC in connection with 'free combinations'(=syntagme verbal), 'idioms'(=locution verbale). Before the main discussions...
In this article we clarified the characteristics of the 'support verb constructions' (=SVC) in rumanian and solidified the status of SVC in connection with 'free combinations'(=syntagme verbal), 'idioms'(=locution verbale). Before the main discussions, we showed why to study the SVC and how to construct the lexicon including the informations of SVC.
Considering that the concept of 'support verb' was born in the frame of French 'lexicon-grammar' by M. Gross, we compared the lexicon-grammar of the Rumanian predicative nouns with that of French. As a result of that work, we made clear the particularity(=singularity) and the generality(=universality) of Rumanian SVC in the Romance languages, with speical comparison with French.
We also utilized the concept of 'grammaticalization' in explaining the phenomena related with SVC and setting the criteria for distinguishing SVC from idioms, phraseologies, collocations, etc..