caa a22 4500 38806689X CHVBK 20180307125135.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199903 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0959269500004476 doi S0959269500004476 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0959269500004476 Larjavaara Meri Dept. of Romance Languages, PO Box 4, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland e-mail: Meri.Larjavaara@Helsinki.Fi Primarily transitive verbs without Objects in Modern French [Elektronische Daten] [Meri Larjavaara] In modern French primarily transitive verbs without objects, such as the one in bold in (1), are a common phenomenon: (1) Je pensais qu'il allait me libérer, mais j'ai vu tout de suite, à sa tête. (van Cauwelaert, 1994: 40) Here it is understood that there is an object of the action expressed by the verb voir - ‘that he was not going to let me free' - but there is no grammatical reflex of that object. The purpose of this article is to discuss a number of such cases. On the basis of examples drawn from newspapers, magazines and novels it will be suggested that, while in many instances the valency of these verbs has not changed, in others it has. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 Journal of French Language Studies Cambridge University Press 9/1(1999-03), 105-111 0959-2695 9:1<105 1999 9 JFL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959269500004476 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959269500004476 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Larjavaara Meri Dept. of Romance Languages, PO Box 4, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland e-mail: Meri.Larjavaara@Helsinki.Fi NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of French Language Studies Cambridge University Press 9/1(1999-03), 105-111 0959-2695 9:1<105 1999 9 JFL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge