Université de Montréal - Thèse sous forme numérique

94all verbs included in a specialized text have a certain discursive function, which meansthat the latter cannot be a distinctive trait of verbs. Nevertheless, this group of verbs thatdo not convey a specialized meaning do have a performative function in the sensedefined by Austin (1962). Lorente also changed the label connective verbs to verbs oflogical relations because the former label is traditionally used to refer to copula orattributive verbs only, although the author included predicative verbs in the category aswell. Thus, verbs of logical relations refer to those verbs that are part of specializedknowledge units and that express generic logical relations. These label redefinitionsseem to us more accurate for the same reasons mentioned by the author. Lorente doesnot change the label phraseological verbs and only points out that this categoryincludes verbs that appear in collocations (strict lexical selection), in fixed phrases andin support verb constructions. As for terminological verbs, it is not entirely clear whythe author changed the label to quasiterminological verbs (verbs quasitermes) as theonly reason she provides is contradictory to the CTT‘s principle according to whichterms can belong to several word classes (Lorente 2007: 9):A mida que anem avançant en la descripció de construccions verbals delsdiscursos d‘especialitat més ens ratifiquem en la idea que els termes sónprototípicament de categoria nominal (Cabré 1999). De fet, [...] és precisamentla relació que estableixen els verbs amb els termes d‘un text allò que condicionaaquesta mateixa classificació dels verbs d‘un text especialitzat.Translation:As the description of verbal constructions of specialized discourses advancedwe were able to confirm the idea according to which terms typically belong tothe part of speech of noun (Cabré 1999). In fact, [...] it is precisely therelationship established between the verbs and the terms that determines thisclassification of verbs that occur in a specialized text.Finally, the last aspect of her initial proposal that she criticizes is the set ofcriteria put forth to analyze the contexts of verbs and decide to each category theybelong. She rightly states that these criteria were not discriminatory enough. Forexample, the criterion of morphological formation showed that both discursive and