Les attributs du complément d’objet

This paper reports on a study of the attributes associated with the direct or indirect object. These attributes are of the kind: On a élu Marie présidente Cet individu a été classé comme dangereux Je le vois déçu The list of verbs operating with this construction comes from an exhaustive dictionary of French verbs and their properties compiled by the author, who also bases his review of this subject on the well known lexique-grammaire created under the direction of the late Professor Maurice Gross and his researchers at the Laboratoire Automatique Documentaire et Linguistique (see Table 39 in Boons, Guillet et Leclère, 1976). The main constraints and problems are briefly reviewed and a sketch of the sub-classes is given.