Comparison of Support Verbs in Malay and French

This study aims to compare the use of support verbs (light verbs) in the Malay language as it was found in the French language. It also examines the role of the support verb in the sentences and explores the similarities and differences that exist in constructing sentences using the verb memberi in the Malay language and donner in French. This study is based on the Lexique-Grammaire (Lexicon-Grammar) of Maurice Gross theory and employs a corpus-based analysis of the verbs under study. The findings of this study support the existence of a verb that can be determined based on their function as the actualisation of predicate nouns (nom prédicatif) in a sentence. There are significant similarities in terms of the meaning of most of the sentences that contain light verbs and also the sentences constructed using distribution verbs in Malay and French.