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If we admit with P. Le Goffic (1993 : 277-278. Translation mine) that “the construction with infinitive is the normal expression of perception (effective and imaginary)”, the fact remains that the current language trend [in French] deviates significantly from the correct usage adopted in French normative grammar. This is particularly the case of the verb voir (“to see”) which, while being “the only verb to present almost the whole range of АО [attributes of the object]” (D. Willems and B. Defrancq, 2000 : 10), is not supposed, normatively speaking, to accept durative complementation (“en train de”). However, this construction is attested and seems to be in competition with the infinitive one. Our approach is based on corpus data and aims to answer the following question : could the durative complementation be a (simple) combinatorial variant ?
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La Linguistique se consacre à l"examen de tout ce qui touche au langage et aux langues, comme instruments de communication et d"expression. Elle traite donc de linguistique générale, de description des langues (phonétique, phonologie, syntaxe, sémantique, pragmatique, analyse de discours, etc.), de diachronie, de sociolinguistique, de psycholinguistique, de sémiologie, etc. La Linguistique recrute ses collaborateurs, en premier lieu, parmi les chercheurs qui dégagent la structure des langues à partir de l"observation de leur fonctionnement, mais aussi chez ceux qui s’intéressent à l"épistémologie et à la théorie.