In this study, we present two frameworks that postulate the existence of twomodes of utterances’ organization, a micro-syntactic level and a macro-syntactic level (the modular framework of the Groupe Aixois de Recherche en Syntaxe and the “stratificational” framework part of the Groupe de Fribourg). These approaches, based in particular on the concept of government (“rection” in French), adopt a non-gradual perspective of syntactic integration, i.e. they do not distinguish degrees of grammatical dependency.