Les locutions verbales et les constructions à verbe support en français L2

Abstract

The goal of this study is to analyse the differences between the idioms and the light verb constructions in French as perceived by native speakers of this language and by the FL2 learners. We have conceived four tasks that allowed us to analyse many aspects of complex verb mastery by the two groups. This study shows that FL2 learners perceive phrasal verbs at the same rate as the native speakers of that language. Contrariwise, the native speakers produce more often those verbs.

Keywords

• idioms
• light verb construction
• phrasal verb
• lexique-grammaire
• acquisition.