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97different. The criteria designed by L‘Homme aim to validate candidate terms belongingto parts of speech as varied as nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs so that these can beincluded in lexical resources. In contrast, the criteria proposed by Lorente weredesigned to elaborate a classification of verbs that appear in specialized texts, but theauthor is also interested in determining the extent to which verbs participate in theexpression of specialized knowledge as well as in providing arguments for the inclusionof some verbs in different kinds of terminological resources.As L‘Homme herself notes, the last three criteria that she proposes (nature ofactants, morphological derivation and paradigmatic relations) mainly apply topredicative units. This makes the criteria particularly well suited to the validation ofverbs and, therefore, comparable with Lorente‘s criteria. Thus, one similarity betweenthe two set of criteria lies in the fact that they can apply to the same type of units. Byimplication, another similarity is that the authors wish to examine the specialized valueof verbs occurring in specialized texts, even though the way they do this slightly differsbecause L‘Homme does not analyze verbs as ―specialized knowledge units‖ and―specialized meaning units‖ as Lorente does.Despite the coincidence of the main criteria put forth by the authors to identifyspecialized verbs, the criteria used by Lorente (2007) allow her to differentiate betweencategories of verbs whereas L‘Homme (2004) does not focus on this. For Lorente, thenature and degree of the connection between a given verb and a noun term is the maincriterion for identifying verbs that convey specialized knowledge. This connection canbe morphological and it allows for the identification of quasiterminological verbs. Thiscriterion corresponds to L‘Homme‘s third criterion, according to which a verb is quitelikely a term if its morphological derivatives are terms themselves. However, L‘Hommespecifies that such morphological relation necessarily involves a semantic one as well,which is only implied in Lorente (2007). For Lorente, the connection between a verb