Université de Montréal - Thèse sous forme numérique

95connective verbs are simple verbs, that phraseological verbs can be simple orderivatives and that terminological verbs reveal a tendency to complex lexical formation(derivation or composition). Thus, the criterion is not suitable to distinguish one classfrom another. In order to address this lack, Lorente applies to the classification of verbstwo criteria only: 1) the nature and degree of connection of verbs to a given noun term(the main criterion), and 2) the semantic classes of verbs (the complementary criterion).When there is a lexical relation between a given verb and a noun term relevantin the specialized field such as morphological derivation or a paradigmatic relation, theverb belongs to the category of quasiterminological verbs. When there is nomorphological relation between the verb and a relevant term in the specialized field butthe verb‘s syntactic object is a term, then the verb belongs to the category ofphraseological verbs. When there is no connection between the verb and a noun termbut there is a relevant term in the construction of the verb (other than its syntacticobject), the verb belongs to the category of the verbs of logical relations. Performativeverbs do not meet any of these conditions.To sum up, Lorente‘s idea is that the relation between a verb and a noun canrange from the most intimate (morphological relation) to the farthest (no connectionbetween the verb and the noun), passing by varying degrees of syntactic relation. Inorder to be specialized knowledge units, verbs have to relate with at least a noun termbecause noun terms are prototypical terms and their strong referential properties allowfor a direct usage in the representation of specialized knowledge.The complementary criterion serves to confirm the distinctions made by meansof the first criterion. Quasiterminological verbs and phraseological verbs are said tobelong to the same semantic classes: action, change, cause change. In contrast, verbs of