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96logical relations are stative, whereas discursive verbs are cognitive, communication andaspectual verbs.This theoretical approach and classification of verbs have been applied to othersubject fields. Casademont (2008) studied the category of phraseological verbs as wellas their behaviour in the specialized fields of economy and genomics and concludedthat, whereas Lorente‘s main criterion (the nature and degree of connection of verbs to agiven noun term) applies well, the complementary criterion (the semantic classes ofverbs) does not.Casademont (2008) demonstrates that phraseological verbs can be action verbsbut also stative verbs, a semantic class attributed to verbs of logical relations in Lorente(2007). When they convey an action, specialized knowledge is transmitted by means ofthe verb and a sub-categorized argument. For instance, the verb expressar is aphraseological verb and part of a specialized knowledge unit because, in the subjectfield of genomics, it refers to an action of creation, fabrication and production (the subcategorizedarguments). However, verbs can also be stative and convey specializedknowledge by means of the verb and all its arguments (sub-categorized or not). Forexample, the verb dividir is a phraseological verb whose arguments not only relate tothe verb but also to each other. According to Casademont (2008) this kind of verbs arehalfway between phraseological and logical-relations verbs, this reinforcing the ideaaccording to which the categories proposed by Lorente (2007) have to be seen as acontinuum.L’Homme’s (1998, 2004) and Lorente’s (2007) criteria: a comparisonThe criteria put forth by L‘Homme (2004) and the criteria underlying the latestclassification put forth by Lorente (2007) share certain similarities as well asdifferences. First of all, the purpose of L‘Homme‘s and Lorente‘s criteria is slightly