Prédicats, sens, polylexicalité et figement: un parcours heuristique
Predicates, Sense, Polylexicality, and Freezing: a heuristic path

Summary/Abstract: For Gaston Gross, a rigorous study of the language means describing all the uses of lexical units of the language within the framework of free combinatorics, by determining the argumental paradigms involved in the schemes of arguments for predicates and all the appropriate predicates for arguments. This approach is complemented by a description of frozen sequences whose internal combinatoriality is more or less restricted. The author devotes his work of 1996 and part of his textbook of 2012 to this subject. Our contribution highlights the great richness of the author’s thoughts particularly from a heuristic point of view. We start from the concepts of predicate, frozeness, polylexicality and semantic opacity to show how much impact Gaston Gross’s methodological suggestions have had on the development of the discipline of linguistics.

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