Université de Montréal - Thèse sous forme numérique

92Connective verbs, phraseological verbs and terminological verbs should beincluded in applications such as ontologies, computational lexicography, dictionariesand manuals for technical writing. In the case of production-oriented applications, theauthors argue that it is very important to include phraseological and terminologicalverbs since these are the verbal specialized knowledge units of knowledge-richpredications.Classification of verbs: redefinitionsIn 2007, Lorente decided to redefine the classification presented above arguing that thelatter was not systematic enough because it was based on superficial observation ofinsufficient data. She revises her initial work regarding four different aspects: therepresentation model (Figure 12), the structure of classification, the denomination of theclasses and the criteria for distinguishing the classes of verbs.As mentioned, the representation model she first proposed corresponds to aVenn diagram in which each group of verbs is part of a larger group (Figure 12). Thismodel, as the author points out, does not represent well the classification of verbsoccurring in specialized texts for several reasons (Lorente 2007: 6-7). Firstly, althoughthe representation illustrated terminological, phraseological and connective verbs as partof the large group of specialized knowledge units, non-specialized meaning units suchas discursive verbs were also included. Secondly, the smaller and larger groups ofFigure 12 attempted to show that some categories can contain more or less verbs but,although it successfully illustrates that terminological verbs are rarer thanphraseological verbs because the circle representing the former is smaller than the latter,the diagram cannot account for the fact that connective verbs occur very often inspecialized texts (tokens) whereas their lemmas are reduced (types).