Étude comparative des constructions à verbe support en français et en éwé

Abstract

The main purpose of this article is to undertake a comparative study of support verbs in French and Ewe to discover the features which are common to them and those which are different. The comparative study shows that support verb constructions in French share the features of the reduction of the support verb and its reconstructibility even though the reduction is manifested differently depending on the language. One of the differences observed is the fact that the determination of the noun plays an important role in support verb constructions in French while it is not a pertinent feature in these constructions in Ewe. Other differences observed include the differences in the interdependency relations of elements in the constructions studied in the two languages.