Quelques specificites du champ lexical "phenomenes naturels"

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyze the events traditionally perceived as natural phenomena. This type of event does not form a homogenous class from a linguistic point of view. The author presents some observations and comments on a few nouns: rain, snow, hail which belong to the lexical field natural phenomena. Moreover, the author raises the issue of the impersonal constructions which cover the category of meteorological verbs.