Quelques remarques sur les lexèmes français contenant une composante volitive

Abstract

The article deals with the question of whether the synonymy can be used to identify all lexical units with a volitional component. We arrive at the conclusion that we cannot detect the items constituting the nucleus of this semantic field without resorting to an analysis in terms of predicates and arguments. A particular emphasis is placed on the differentiating parameters between the lexemes constituting the core of the lexical field of words expressing will.