This comprehensive volume contains twenty-six out of thirty three papers that were presented at the International Conference on "Les Periphrases Verbales." The conference took place at the University of Caen-Basse-Normandie from June 25th to June 28th 2003, and was co-organized by the Crisco umr cnrs research group and the French Department at Tel Aviv University, Israel. The contributors to this volume aim to present a broad spectrum of theoretical approaches to the analysis of constructions entitled "periphrases verbales." Their work revolves around three central themes: the definition of...