Auxiliation des noms d'action

In various languages, such as French, which do not have nominal assertions, a specific auxiliation has taken place for nouns, prepositions, adverbs and adjectives. This auxiliation has « grammaticalized » verbs, nouns and prepositions with aspectual, causative and « modal » values which are complementary to those of the verbal auxiliation. The grammaticalized elements involved in this auxiliation do not have a compositional lexical meaning, but a regular grammatical one, as in the verbal auxiliation. Current linguistic formalisms are unable to represent the distribution properties of the elements entering this rich auxiliation system. The analysis of its genesis in Indo-European languages makes it possible to understand its syntactic and semantic role as well as its striking similarities in Romance and Germanic languages.