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réformes, voir également Brissaud (1999 : 6-7). Il semblerait néanmoins que certaines propositions de réforme soient perçues plus favorablement par les locuteurs/scripteurs, notamment celle qui viserait à simplifier l'accord du participe passé des verbes pronominaux en permettant dans tous les cas l'accord avec le sujet (Matthey, 2013).

In grammars and textbooks used to teach German as a foreign language, the chapters devoted to the "Funktionsverbgefüge" (light verb constructions) are based on data that are mainly obtained by introspection. German dictionaries also often seem not to be based on empirical data. Through the example of kommen (to come), the present paper aims at showing a few new and decisive elements that empirical, strictly corpus-driven research, by means of the new digital corpora, makes it possible to highlight. The purpose is to achieve a description that is more precise and more faithful to the target language in foreign languages teaching. Keywords: Light verb construction - light verb - corpus linguistics - empirical research - digital corpora - COSMAS II - prototype semantics - syntax - valence - complementation - lexicology - grammar

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The aim of the present paper is to show that the use of a very large electronic corpus is likely to simplify the foreign language teacher’s task as well as the learner’s. Using the 'Corpus français', we present two examples of tasks which can be achieved by students of French as a foreign language even though they do not necessarily have in-depth knowledge of linguistic analysis and for which no prior filtering by the teacher is needed. In the first task, the aim is to determine the typical use of a verb by looking for co-occurrences strongly collocating with it, while in the second one, the purpose is to disambiguate near-synonyms, based on the usage contexts specific to each of the lexical units considered. It appears that the results obtained compare favourably with the descriptions found in dictionaries, despite the simplicity of the procedure.