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Circumstantial complements play a crucial role in sentence structuring and semantic interpretation. This study explores and clarifies the concept of circumstantial complements in linguistics, focusing on their identification, classification and function in various languages. The main objective of the study is to analyse the different types of circumstantial complements (locative, temporal, instrumental, etc.) and to examine their impact on the overall meaning of the sentence. The methodology adopted includes a corpus-based analysis, with a rigorous selection of examples of sentences in which these complements are present, as well as a comparative study of languages in order to determine similarities and differences in their use. The results show that circumstantial complements are essential for the precise expression of spatial, temporal and causal relations in utterances. They have a strong influence on the meaning of sentences, allowing for semantic nuances and better contextualisation. The study also reveals the variability of circumstantial complements across different syntactic and grammatical structures. This research contributes to a better understanding of syntax, with practical implications for language teaching, computational linguistics and translation. The results pave the way for future studies, in particular by exploring the impact of new technologies on the linguistic analysis of circumstantial complements.
