Une analyse en miroir de deux semi-copules évidentielles : s’avérer et se révéler

Abstract

Une analyse en miroir de deux semi-copules évidentielles : s'avérer et se révéler 1 Els Tobback et Peter LauwersThis paper offers a corpus-based study of two evidential (semi-)copular verbs in French. It deals with their degree of synonymy and the extent to which they are grammaticalized as semi-copulas. First, the study of subcategorization and semantic restrictions of both the direct and indirect (marked) construction with comme, completed by the careful scrutiny of contextual elements, shows that both verbs exhibit slight meaning differences with respect to the inferential process involved in the encoding of indirect inferential evidentiality (Willet 1988) : "results" (se révéler) vs "reasoning" (s'avérer). Second, both verbs fit quite well in the paradigm of copular verbs, although s'avérer seems slightly more 'transparent' , that means less selective. Crucially, the uses of se révéler with nominal predicates quite often exhibit lexical persistence, while in the adjectival domain both verbs are almost twins as shown by a distinctive collexeme analysis.

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“… 9 Le taux de recouvrement lexical est cependant inférieur à celui observé pour un autre couple de verbes attributifs s'avérer / se révéler (Tobback et Lauwers 2012) qui partagent 120 de leurs 478 collexèmes, soit 25,1 % des types (corpus journalistique), correspondant à 66,0 % des occurrences. Si l'on fait abstraction des hapax, le taux de recouvrement atteint 69,3 % des types (120 des 173 types non hapax).…”