Description:
The article deals with the analysis of the main types of the syntactic constructions of the conditional reflexive in the French language. Drawing attention to the study of pronominal verbs forming structurally complex constructions for instance “se couper le doight”, “se laver les dents”, “se peigner les cheveux” et cetera it occurred that more often this syntactic formation is perceived as an undoubtedly reflexive one. The author made some distinctions as far as common speech features of pronominal verbs acting in the abovementioned models is concerned. During the study it was found that first a verb in the process of pronominalization can acquire not only new grammatical function, but mostly change the volume of generalized lexical content as well. Secondly, the degree of reflexivity of the verbs in the structurally complex reflexive is not homogeneous: it is minimal if not perceivable where a reflexive verb has its own special meaning which coincides with a narrow specialized action (such as gestures or mimics) and goes along with the names of non-detachable possessiveness. Thirdly, on condition that the role of non-prepositional octant is played by the name of an object the degree of reflexivity of a pronominal verb considerably elevated: the highest degree of reflexivity is acquired to the verbs which coincide not only with the names with a presentive meaning but with an attributive subordinate, a pronoun or a prepositional infinitive as well.