Abstract
M. Gross (1981) calls such verbs 'support verbs', and I shall adopt his terminologLv. These verbs exhibit many interesting properties which have been studied systematically for several French support verbs: faire (make), avoir (have), prendre (take), etre (be), etc. An examination of the results indicates that support verb,; must be taken into account in the parser and in the lexicon of a program of automatic translation. I shall discuss the problem in the context of a possible program for FrenchEnglish translation. In what follows, Vsup designates the support verb, and Nsup stands for the 'supported' noun associated with Vsup. NO and N2 designate the subject noun and the indirect object noun, respectively. The symbol '+ ' is used to indicate a choice.
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