The aim of this thesis is to present semi-copular constructions in present-day Spanish. We define semi-copular verbs and characterize their relation to copular verbs. In the chapters of the thesis, we present the list of possible subject complements which form constructions with these verbs. We determine their type, semantic scope and possible restrictions. In the experimental part, we examine the adjectives related to selected semi-copular verbs - ponerse, quedarse, hacerse and volverse - in detail and we discuss their compatibility with verbs ser and estar. We also deal with the qualitative analysis of the semantic range for selected occurrences of semi- copular verbs in conjunction with adjectives. Key words: copular verbs, semi-copular verbs, semantic classification of verbs, Spanish

Cette étude est une classification générale des constructions verbales et une description des propriétés syntaxico-sémantiques des verbes à complément essentiel introduit par la postposition e en coréen. Ce travail a pour modèle théorique le lexique-grammaire, qui a été élaboré par M. Gross (1975), sur la base des principes de Z. S. Harris (1968). Dans cette étude, nous avons examiné les propriétés syntaxico-sémantiques des 3000 verbes demandant ce complément et nous les avons regroupés en 8 classes. Ces propriétés constitueront des informations syntaxiques qui servent à l'analyse de structure d'une phrase et au traitement automatique des textes en coréen / This study is a general classification of verbal constructions and a syntactico-semantic description of the Korean verbs with essential complements introduced by the postposition e. The theoretical model of this study is the Lexicon-grammar by M. Gross (1975), which is based on the theory of Z. S. Harris (1968). In this study, we examined the syntactico-semantic features of the 3000 verbs requiring that complement and classified them into 8 classes. Those syntactico-semantic features will constitute the syntactic information which serves the structure analysis of a sentence and the automatic text retrieval in Korean