Cette thèse étudie quelques préverbes et prépositions en bulgare (v/v-, iz/iz-) et en français (dans, hors de, en-/in-, ex-/é-) dans le cadre de la sémantique cognitive et formelle et plus particulièrement dans celui de la Grammaire Applicative et Cognitive (GAC). La formalisation à l’aide d’un schème quasi-topologique utilisant des lieux abstraits permet de construire des représentations adéquates et de dégager un invariant abstrait pour chaque unité étudiée. L’analyse aboutit à la construction d’une carte sémantique des significations d’intériorité et d’extériorité étudiées qui met en évidence les similarités, les différences et les oppositions entre les significations des différents préverbes et prépositions au sein d’une même langue ainsi qu’entre les deux langues, bulgare et français. Les résultats obtenus montrent que chaque langue construit ses propres représentations à partir de primitives invariantes et que, bien que les emplois des unités étudiées soient souvent très proches, il n’est pas possible d’établir des équivalences absolues entre significations. Cette étude contribue à argumenter en faveur de l’hypothèse anti-anti-relativiste de la GAC. / This thesis analyses some preverbs and prepositions in Bulgarian (v/v-, iz/iz-) and in French (dans, hors de, en-/in-, é-/ex-) within the framework of the cognitive and formal semantics, the Cognitive and Applicative Grammar (CAG) in particular. The formalisation using quasi-topological scheme and abstract loci allows the construction of appropriate representations and the formulation of an abstract invariant meaning for each item. The analysis leads to the construction of a semantic map of the interior and exterior meanings of the studied items which underlines the similarities, the differences and the oppositions between the meanings of different preverbs and prepositions within a single language as well as between the two languages, Bulgarian and French. The results of the analysis show that each language builds its own representations using invariant primitives and that, even if some of the studied meanings are very similar, it is impossible to establish absolute equivalencies between them. This study contributes to argue for the anti-anti-relativist hypothesis of the CAG.

Cette étude vise à unifier dans une même approche les descriptions données par une sémantique cognitive et les représentations associées, et étudiées par une sémantique formelle. La sémantique cognitive a pour but d’associer des schèmes aux significations des unités analysées. La sémantique formelle consiste à étudier les modes de représentation de ces schèmes et les relations avec les observables. Notre étude s’appuie et s’insère dans le modèle général développé à l’université Paris-Sorbonne dans le groupe LaLIC (Langages, Logiques, Informatique et Cognition), il s’agit d’utiliser le modèle de la GAC (Grammaire Applicative et Cognitive) et de la GRACE (GRammaire Applicative Cognitive et Enonciative) ; ces deux modèles font appel d’une part à la topologie et d’autre part à la logique combinatoire en vue d’un traitement automatique de la signification. Nous avons choisi d’étudier le problème des prépositions et plus spécialement des trois prépositions : dans, sous et à du français et de leur équivalents en arabe ; cela nous à conduit à rechercher des invariants associés à ces trois prépositions ou relateurs, la préposition dans renvoie à l’intériorité d’un lieu, qu’il soit spatial, temporel, spatio-temporel, notionnel ou d’activité ; la préposition sous renvoie à un lieu déterminé ou engendré par un autre lieu dont on prend la fermeture ; quand à la préposition à renvoie à la fermeture d’un lieu. Le lieu est un lieu cognitif abstrait, suffisamment général qui, selon le contexte peut prendre des valeurs plus particulières. / This study aims to unify in a single approach the descriptions given by cognitive semantics and associated representations, studied by formal semantics. Cognitive semantics consists to associate the meanings of the analyzed with schemes. Formal semantics consists in studying the modes of representation of these schemes and the relations to the observables. Our study is based on the general model developed at the Paris-Sorbonne University in the LaLIC group, using the GAC model (Applicative and Cognitive Grammar) and GRACE (GRammar Applicative Cognitive and Enunciative), these two models use the one hand to the topology and on the other hand to the combinatory logic in order to an automatic processing of meanings. We have chosen to study the problem of the three prepositions: dans, sous and à of French and their equivalences in Arabic, this leads us to search for invariants associated with these three prepositions or relators, the preposition dans refers to the interiority of a place, be it spatial, temporal, spatial-temporal, notional or activity and the preposition sous refers to a specific place or generated by another place whose closing is taken. The preposition à refers to the closing of a place, here the place is cognitive or abstract place, sufficiently general that according to the context can take more particular values.

Cette thèse propose une analyse contrastive de la causalité en arabe et en français. L’intérêt d’une telle étude est double. Nous exposons un cadre linguistique concernant l'analyse des différentes manifestations linguistiques causales. Ensuite, nous établissons de ressources linguistiques relatives à la causalité selon la méthode d’exploration contextuelle (Desclés 1997) destinées à un traitement automatique pour une recherche d’information. Nous passons à l'étude du lexique verbal afin d’organiser une grande diversité des verbes indicateursde causalitéen arabe ainsi que de dresser une liste assez complète des significations des verbes indicateurs répertoriés et de les classer dans des catégories sémantiques. Dans le but d’élaborer une carte sémantique causale, nous avons été obligées de préciser un réseau de concepts théoriques relatifs à la causalité. Le modèle de Talmy a constitué notre point de départ, il nous a permis une première décomposition de la signification des verbes indicateurs causaux. Le modèle de la Grammaire applicative et cognitive (Desclés 1990) nous a fourni un cadre pertinent pour représenter cette décomposition et l’affiner également. Pour finir, nous avons élaboré les schèmes sémantico-cognitifs des verbes indicateurs causals ainsi que des schémas aspecto-temporels en tenant compte des arguments impliqués par la causalité. / This thesis proposes a contrastive analysis of causality in Arabic and French. The interest of such study is twofold. We present a linguistic framework for the analysis of different linguistic causal manifestations. Then, we establish linguistic resources of causality following the contextual exploration method (Desclés 1997) used in automatic processingfor information retrieval. We turn to the study of the verbal lexicon to organize a wide variety of existing indicators verbsof causality in Arabic, and to compile a fairly complete list of the meanings of verbs indicators listed and classify them into semantic categories. In order to develop a causal semantic map, we have been obliged to specify a network of theoretical concepts related to causality. Talmy model was our starting point; it allowed us to undertake a certain decomposition of the meaning of causal indicators verbs. The model of Applicative and Cognitive Grammar (Desclés 1990) provided us with a relevant theoretical framework to analyze this decomposition. Finally, we have developed semantic-cognitive patterns for the causal indicators verbs as well as aspectual-temporal patterns taking into account the arguments involved by in the causality.

Baseada em amostras (corpus) de língua oral do português brasileiro e europeu, este trabalho investiga as estratégias de substituição dos clíticos dativos de terceira pessoa no português do Brasil e no português europeu, bem como o uso de preposições introdutórias do dativo representado por sintagmas nominais. O objetivo é verificar as evidências de possível mudança paramétrica na variedade brasileira e evidenciar diferenças entre as alternativas utilizadas pelos falantes dos dois sistemas lingüísticos. Enfoca o uso dos complementos dativos de terceira pessoa em várias formas de representação na fala de nativos com grau superior de escolaridade (falante culto) da cidade de Fortaleza, Ceará (inquéritos do corpus Porcufort) e na fala de portugueses europeus (inquéritos do corpus CRPC), com verbos ditransitivos de transferência material e transferência verbal. Trabalhos científicos recentes indicam modificações no uso dos clíticos dativos de terceira pessoa na variedade do Brasil, distanciando-se do uso no português europeu. Os resultados sinalizam consideráveis diferenças entre as duas variedades: enquanto o português europeu faz largo uso dos clíticos dativo de terceira pessoa, no português do Brasil verifica-se sua substituição por estratégias alternativas como o uso de pronomes tônicos anafóricos, ou mesmo do objeto nulo. Os dados estudados na pesquisa apontam para a confirmação da hipótese de Galves (2001) de que competências gramaticais do PE e do PB são diferentes e tendem a distanciar-se na fala cotidiana. Verificou-se também que o PB não possui as construções de núcleo aplicativo realizadas no PE, conforme demonstrado na proposta de Torres Morais (2007) em que se evidencia que, no PE, o argumento interno dativo de verbos de transferência material e verbal é licenciado por um núcleo aplicativo que se realiza mediante a presença obrigatória da preposição a, marcador de Caso dativo. O PB perdeu a capacidade de realizar esse dativo, pois seus complementos verbais são introduzidos por preposições lexicais, o que impossibilita as construções de núcleo aplicativo com a configuração verificada no PE, mas o PB apresenta outra forma de configurá-lo: as construções de objeto duplo. / Based in samples (corpus) of verbal language of the Brazilian and European Portuguese, this work investigates the strategies of substitution of the 3rd. person dative clitics in the Brazilian Portuguese and the European Portuguese, as well as the use of introductory prepositions of the dative represented for lexical DP. The objective is to verify the evidences of possible parametric change in the Brazilian variety and to evidence the differences between the alternatives used for the talkers of the two linguistic systems. It focuses the use of the 3rd. person dative clitics complements in several forms of representation in the speech of natives with superior degree (cult talker) of the city of Fortaleza, Ceará (inquiries of the Porcufort corpus) and in speaks of European Portugueses (inquiries of corpus CRPC), with ditransitive verbs of concrete transference and conceptual transference. Recent scientific trials indicate modifications in the use of the appointed 3rd. person dative clitics in the variety of Brazil, is separating itself from the European one.The results pointed to considerable differences between the two varieties: while the European Portuguese uses of the 3rd. person dative clitics, in the Brazilian Portuguese is possible to verify its substitution for alternative strategies as the use of anaphoric strong pronouns, or the null object. The data studied in this work point out to the confirmation of the hypothesis of Galves (2001) of that grammatical abilities of the European Portuguese and the Brazilian Portuguese are different and tend to become more distant themselves in speak speech. It was also verified that the Brazilian Portuguese does not have constructions of applicative head of the European Portuguese, as demonstrated in the proposal of Torres Morais (2007) which evidences that, in the European Portuguese, the internal appointed argument of concrete and cognitive transference is permitted by a applicative head that carries through by means of the obligator presence of the preposition \"a\", marking of dative case marker. The Brazilian Portuguese lost the capacity to carry through this dative, therefore its verbal complements are introduced by lexical prepositions, that means they don\'t realize the applicative head with the configuration verified in the European Portuguese, but they have another form to configure it: double object constructions

Baseada em amostras (corpus) de língua oral do português brasileiro e europeu, este trabalho investiga as estratégias de substituição dos clíticos dativos de terceira pessoa no português do Brasil e no português europeu, bem como o uso de preposições introdutórias do dativo representado por sintagmas nominais. O objetivo é verificar as evidências de possível mudança paramétrica na variedade brasileira e evidenciar diferenças entre as alternativas utilizadas pelos falantes dos dois sistemas lingüísticos. Enfoca o uso dos complementos dativos de terceira pessoa em várias formas de representação na fala de nativos com grau superior de escolaridade (falante culto) da cidade de Fortaleza, Ceará (inquéritos do corpus Porcufort) e na fala de portugueses europeus (inquéritos do corpus CRPC), com verbos ditransitivos de transferência material e transferência verbal. Trabalhos científicos recentes indicam modificações no uso dos clíticos dativos de terceira pessoa na variedade do Brasil, distanciando-se do uso no português europeu. Os resultados sinalizam consideráveis diferenças entre as duas variedades: enquanto o português europeu faz largo uso dos clíticos dativo de terceira pessoa, no português do Brasil verifica-se sua substituição por estratégias alternativas como o uso de pronomes tônicos anafóricos, ou mesmo do objeto nulo. Os dados estudados na pesquisa apontam para a confirmação da hipótese de Galves (2001) de que competências gramaticais do PE e do PB são diferentes e tendem a distanciar-se na fala cotidiana. Verificou-se também que o PB não possui as construções de núcleo aplicativo realizadas no PE, conforme demonstrado na proposta de Torres Morais (2007) em que se evidencia que, no PE, o argumento interno dativo de verbos de transferência material e verbal é licenciado por um núcleo aplicativo que se realiza mediante a presença obrigatória da preposição a, marcador de Caso dativo. O PB perdeu a capacidade de realizar esse dativo, pois seus complementos verbais são introduzidos por preposições lexicais, o que impossibilita as construções de núcleo aplicativo com a configuração verificada no PE, mas o PB apresenta outra forma de configurá-lo: as construções de objeto duplo. / Based in samples (corpus) of verbal language of the Brazilian and European Portuguese, this work investigates the strategies of substitution of the 3rd. person dative clitics in the Brazilian Portuguese and the European Portuguese, as well as the use of introductory prepositions of the dative represented for lexical DP. The objective is to verify the evidences of possible parametric change in the Brazilian variety and to evidence the differences between the alternatives used for the talkers of the two linguistic systems. It focuses the use of the 3rd. person dative clitics complements in several forms of representation in the speech of natives with superior degree (cult talker) of the city of Fortaleza, Ceará (inquiries of the Porcufort corpus) and in speaks of European Portugueses (inquiries of corpus CRPC), with ditransitive verbs of concrete transference and conceptual transference. Recent scientific trials indicate modifications in the use of the appointed 3rd. person dative clitics in the variety of Brazil, is separating itself from the European one.The results pointed to considerable differences between the two varieties: while the European Portuguese uses of the 3rd. person dative clitics, in the Brazilian Portuguese is possible to verify its substitution for alternative strategies as the use of anaphoric strong pronouns, or the null object. The data studied in this work point out to the confirmation of the hypothesis of Galves (2001) of that grammatical abilities of the European Portuguese and the Brazilian Portuguese are different and tend to become more distant themselves in speak speech. It was also verified that the Brazilian Portuguese does not have constructions of applicative head of the European Portuguese, as demonstrated in the proposal of Torres Morais (2007) which evidences that, in the European Portuguese, the internal appointed argument of concrete and cognitive transference is permitted by a applicative head that carries through by means of the obligator presence of the preposition \"a\", marking of dative case marker. The Brazilian Portuguese lost the capacity to carry through this dative, therefore its verbal complements are introduced by lexical prepositions, that means they don\'t realize the applicative head with the configuration verified in the European Portuguese, but they have another form to configure it: double object constructions

Um dos fenômenos mais investigados na literatura sintática recente sobre o português brasileiro (PB), dentro do quadro teórico gerativista e também de outras teorias linguísticas, é aquele que se refere ao que viria a ficar conhecido como tópico-sujeito. Este trabalho se debruçou sobre este fenômeno sintático, mais especificamente, o tópico-sujeito locativo, um tipo de tópico-sujeito em que um constituinte com interpretação locativa figura em posição pré-verbal. Os aspectos investigados mais de perto referem-se à grade argumental e à estrutura eventiva dos verbos envolvidos, bem como ao modo de licenciamento dos dois DPs participantes da estrutura eventiva que expressa a relação locativa. Depois de uma revisão da literatura relevante sobre o tópico-sujeito e as bases do gerativismo, a hipótese derivacional que assumimos neste trabalho considerou uma estrutura semelhante à das sentenças transitivas sem, no entanto, a projeção de Voice agentivo. Postulamos, em seu lugar, um núcleo aplicativo alto, com traços de pessoa, que identifica um evento apto a receber uma locação e introduz um novo participante afetado, com uma relação temática locativa entre ele e o VP. Do ponto de vista diacrônico, supomos que o parâmetro envolvido no aparecimento do tópico locativo na gramática do PB estaria na mesma rede paramétrica relacionada à mudança no parâmetro do sujeito nulo. Foi feita também uma pesquisa com corpora históricos abrangendo o período dos séculos XIX ao XXI, com o objetivo de rastrear um possível desenvolvimento das construções com sintagmas locativos em posição pré-verbal, em variação com os locativos em posição pós-verbal, na expectativa de poder encontrar ocorrências de construções que apresentem as propriedades que identifiquem o tópico-sujeito locativo. Foram utilizados anúncios, cartas pessoais e entrevistas, todos circunscritos ao estado de São Paulo. A metodologia utilizada foi quantitativa e buscou contabilizar variáveis presentes em todas as sentenças com sintagmas de interpretação locativa. / syntactic literature, inside the theoretical frame of the Generative Syntax program and also another linguistic theories, is the one that has come to be known as topic-subject. This work focused on this syntactic phenomenon, more specifically the locative topic, a subtype of topic-subject in which a constituent with locative interpretation appears in a pre-verbal position. The more closely investigated aspects refer to the argument structure and event structure of the verbs involved, as well as to the licensing mode of the two DPs participating in the event structure that expresses the locative relation. After a literature revision about the topic-subject and the foundations of the generative enterprise, the derivational hypothesis that we assume in this work considers a structure similar to that of the transitive sentences without, however, the agentive Voice projection. We consider instead a high applicative head, with person features, whose function is to identify an event capable of receiving a location and to introduce a new affected participant, with a locative thematic relation between it and the VP. From the diachronic point of view, we assume that the parameter involved in the implementation of the locative topic in the BP grammar would be in the same parametric network related to the change in the null subject parameter. Besides, a research was made with historical corpora spanning the period from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first century, aiming to track a probable development of the constructions with locative phrases in pre-verbal position, in variation with locatives in post-verbal position, waiting to find occurrences of constructions showing the topic-subject properties. We used ads, personal letters and interviews, all of which were limited to the state of São Paulo. The methodology used was quantitative and sought to account for variables present in all sentences with phrases associated to locative interpretation.

This dissertation presents the findings of an investigation of adnominal possession and ditransitives on the basis of data from Modern Greek. The general thesis of the dissertation is that possessive DPs constitute nominal counterparts to ditransitive constructions. Greek ditransitives consist of double object constructions and prepositional dative constructions, which are analyzed as low applicatives; the former with possessive properties, the latter with locative. Double object constructions, unlike prepositional datives, are associated with restrictions concerning animacy, affectedness and number features on the recipient. A-movement (a)symmetries in ditransitives are argued to reduce to underlying phase structure and the movement properties of the applicative head. The dissertation shows that the possessive/locative dichotomy associated with Greek ditransitives is reproducible in the realm of adnominal possession. Prenominal possessors pattern both syntactically and semantically with dative recipients in double object constructions, while postnominal possessors display affiliation with PP-recipients in prepositional dative constructions. Binding diagnostics furthermore indicate two distinct Small Clause structures for Greek possessive DPs, syntactically identical with the structure of ditransitives.

A very controversial issue that assumes increasing importance in the national scenario is related to the well area known as Refunding Request for Damages. This subject, amongst other aspects, aims at providing means to support the necessary answer to the consumers when a equipment damage is claimed due to a occurrence in the electrical network. With this in mind, the main idea consists in establishing a correct relationship between power system distribution or transmission phenomena with a given required demand for refunding. In this way, the conventional procedures actually in practice are quite empirical and the search for computational means to provide the required answer appears as an attractive scientific and technique base approach. Using this approach it is believed that a more consistent and impartial method would be of great help to accomplish the focused matter. Within this context, this dissertation aims to contribute in two specific topics: the first is associated to a methodology to cope with the equipment time of use and its insertion in the so called APR software. The second target goes towards the investigation of 25 cases of real refunding requests occurred at the Centrais Eletricas Matogrossenses CEMAT so as to provide a first step towards the validation procedure of the overall procedures. / Uma questão bastante controversa e que assume crescente importância no cenário nacional corresponde aos assuntos contemplados dentro da sigla PID (Pedidos de Indenização por Danos). Esta área, dentre outros aspectos, tem por objetivo oferecer respostas para as mais distintas solicitações de indenização por danos ocorridos em equipamentos instalados junto aos consumidores residenciais, comerciais e industriais. Com este foco, o tema em pauta tem por função primordial correlacionar eventuais danos em equipamentos com ocorrências manifestadas nas redes elétricas, emitindo, assim, um parecer final sobre o nexo causal entre os fenômenos e seus efeitos. Neste contexto, os procedimentos atuais seguem uma linha bastante empírica e, a busca por meios computacionais, fundamentados nos princípios da ciência e tecnologia, surge como uma alternativa importante, consistente e imparcial para a busca das almejadas respostas. É pois dentro deste cenário que encontra-se inserida a presente dissertação, a qual, somado a outras questões, contribui em duas direções: a primeira voltada para a proposição e incorporação, num programa já desenvolvido (APR), dos efeitos associados com o tempo de uso dos equipamentos, e a segunda encontra-se direcionada para a realização de estudos investigativos visando a validação do software. Esta última contribuição encontra-se alicerçada em 25 (vinte e cinco) casos reais de pedidos de ressarcimento ocorridos no âmbito do sistema de distribuição da concessionária Centrais Elétricas Matogrossenses S.A CEMAT e na correlação entre os indicativos do programa e as ações tomadas pela empresa. / Mestre em Ciências

Um dos fenômenos mais investigados na literatura sintática recente sobre o português brasileiro (PB), dentro do quadro teórico gerativista e também de outras teorias linguísticas, é aquele que se refere ao que viria a ficar conhecido como tópico-sujeito. Este trabalho se debruçou sobre este fenômeno sintático, mais especificamente, o tópico-sujeito locativo, um tipo de tópico-sujeito em que um constituinte com interpretação locativa figura em posição pré-verbal. Os aspectos investigados mais de perto referem-se à grade argumental e à estrutura eventiva dos verbos envolvidos, bem como ao modo de licenciamento dos dois DPs participantes da estrutura eventiva que expressa a relação locativa. Depois de uma revisão da literatura relevante sobre o tópico-sujeito e as bases do gerativismo, a hipótese derivacional que assumimos neste trabalho considerou uma estrutura semelhante à das sentenças transitivas sem, no entanto, a projeção de Voice agentivo. Postulamos, em seu lugar, um núcleo aplicativo alto, com traços de pessoa, que identifica um evento apto a receber uma locação e introduz um novo participante afetado, com uma relação temática locativa entre ele e o VP. Do ponto de vista diacrônico, supomos que o parâmetro envolvido no aparecimento do tópico locativo na gramática do PB estaria na mesma rede paramétrica relacionada à mudança no parâmetro do sujeito nulo. Foi feita também uma pesquisa com corpora históricos abrangendo o período dos séculos XIX ao XXI, com o objetivo de rastrear um possível desenvolvimento das construções com sintagmas locativos em posição pré-verbal, em variação com os locativos em posição pós-verbal, na expectativa de poder encontrar ocorrências de construções que apresentem as propriedades que identifiquem o tópico-sujeito locativo. Foram utilizados anúncios, cartas pessoais e entrevistas, todos circunscritos ao estado de São Paulo. A metodologia utilizada foi quantitativa e buscou contabilizar variáveis presentes em todas as sentenças com sintagmas de interpretação locativa. / syntactic literature, inside the theoretical frame of the Generative Syntax program and also another linguistic theories, is the one that has come to be known as topic-subject. This work focused on this syntactic phenomenon, more specifically the locative topic, a subtype of topic-subject in which a constituent with locative interpretation appears in a pre-verbal position. The more closely investigated aspects refer to the argument structure and event structure of the verbs involved, as well as to the licensing mode of the two DPs participating in the event structure that expresses the locative relation. After a literature revision about the topic-subject and the foundations of the generative enterprise, the derivational hypothesis that we assume in this work considers a structure similar to that of the transitive sentences without, however, the agentive Voice projection. We consider instead a high applicative head, with person features, whose function is to identify an event capable of receiving a location and to introduce a new affected participant, with a locative thematic relation between it and the VP. From the diachronic point of view, we assume that the parameter involved in the implementation of the locative topic in the BP grammar would be in the same parametric network related to the change in the null subject parameter. Besides, a research was made with historical corpora spanning the period from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first century, aiming to track a probable development of the constructions with locative phrases in pre-verbal position, in variation with locatives in post-verbal position, waiting to find occurrences of constructions showing the topic-subject properties. We used ads, personal letters and interviews, all of which were limited to the state of São Paulo. The methodology used was quantitative and sought to account for variables present in all sentences with phrases associated to locative interpretation.

Dans cette thèse, nous nous intéressons aux trois types d’expressions dont la structure s’écarte du modèle de la proposition transitive canonique, à savoir les constructions : anticausatives, à causalité interne, et impersonnelles en polonais et en russe. Leur point commun est que l’écart par rapport à une phrase transitive porte sur la référence du sujet de la proposition. Dans tous les cas, le référent du sujet est non-agentif. Dans certains cas, le marquage morphologique reflète cette absence, tant sur le prédicat qui est marqué à la troisième personne du singulier neutre que par l’absence d’un sujet nominatif. Ailleurs, la morphologie ne laisse rien, ou presque rien apparaître, le prédicat s’accordant avec l’argument Thème ou le Patient. Ces expressions feront l’objet d’une étude comparative, dans laquelle seront étudiées : la nature de chaque participant non-canonique qui apparaît dans la proposition, les caractéris¬tiques de chaque prédicat présent, et enfin, les propriétés combinatoires entre les participants et les prédicats. Il sera montré que la nature et la structure et enfin la manière dont sont légi¬timés les sujets non-canoniques ne sont pas seulement liées aux propriétés du réfé¬rent de sujet, mais aussi dépendent de la nature du prédicat. Tout comme cela a été proposé pour les constructions anticausatives et à causalité interne (cf. Alexiadou & Anagnostopou¬lou (2003), Alexiadou, Anagnostopoulou & Schäfer (2006), Schäfer (2008)), nous avancerons que les constructions impersonnelles comportent un prédicat Cause qui est responsable de la légitimation thématique des caus(at)eurs nominatifs et obliques. Les différences entre ces structures sont dues à la présence ou à l’absence de la tête Voice. Vues sous cet angle, les constructions impersonnelles sont une sorte de causativisation. Le caus(at)eur indéfini (cf. Kibort (2004)) présent dans les constructions impersonnelles d’une part, et la possible présence des causeurs obliques d’autre part, sont des preuves qui étaient cette hypothèse. / In this dissertation we study three kinds of expressions that deviate from the model of canonical transitive sentences, namely anticausative, internal causation and impersonal constructions in Polish and in Russian. The common point is that the deviation from a transitive sentence has to do with the subject’s reference. In all cases, the referent of the subject is non-agentive. In some cases, the morphological marking reflects this absence, both on the predicates which is frozen in the third person singular (neuter), and by the absence of a nominative subject. In the other two cases, the non-canonicity is not morpologically revealed because the inflected verb agrees with the nominative argument whose referent is the Theme or the Patient.A comparative study of these expressions will be given, in so far as the nature of the non-canonical participants that appear in the sentence, the characteristics of each predicate, and finally, the combinatorial properties between participants and predicates are concerned.It will be shown that the nature, the structure and ultimately the way that non-canonical subjects are licensed are not only related to the properties of the subject’s reference, but also depend on the nature of the predicate. Just as it was proposed for anticausatives and internal causal constructions (Alexiadou & Anagnostopoulou (2003), Alexiadou, Anagnostopoulou & Schäfer (2006), Schäfer (2008)), it will be shown that impersonal constructions include a Cause predicate that is responsible for the thematical licensing of nominative and oblique causers. The differences between these structures are due to the presence or absence of a Voice head. From this perspective, impersonal constructions encode a kind of causativisation. The indefinite causer (analysed in Kibort (2004)), which is present in impersonal constructions on the one hand, and the possible presence of other oblique causer, are thus deemed to be evidence that supports this hypothesis.