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110absorber and amortir. This is made relatively easy because the author is dealing withtechnical texts in which terms in two languages refer to the same entities.Later, Lerat (2002b) suggests that the theory of the classes of objects can beuseful for the identification of the equivalents of specialized verbs, namely of verbs thatare used in the subject field of the law. Very similarly to the findings of L‘Homme(1995), the idea here is that verbs that are equivalents in two languages tend to combinewith the same classes of objects or have the same ―schémas d‘arguments‖. For instance,the French verb disposer, the English verb to provide, the German verb bestimmen andthe Italian verb prescrivere are equivalents because they are used with the same kind ofargument ―‖ (Lerat 2002b: 160).Bearing in mind the contributions discussed in this section, it seems that thereare two important elements that need to be analyzed in order to identify the equivalentsof specialized verbs: the actantial structures and the nature of the arguments of theverbs. However, what the approaches that we described seem to fail to do is to establishthe boundaries between full and partial equivalents, which are may be relevant inculture-bound subject fields such as the law (section 2.1.1).In fact, even though Pimentel and L‘Homme (2011) suggest that fullequivalence may not always exist in technical domains such as computing and theInternet by providing examples of interlinguistic variation between terms, the authorsdo not draw considerations on what distinguishes a full equivalent verb pair from apartially equivalent one. The same is valid for L‘Homme (1995) and Lerat (2002b)which correspond to the contributions that focus the most on methodologies foridentifying the equivalents of specialized verbs. Although their findings prove to beuseful for choosing appropriate translation equivalents, the workflow that they describefor the identification of equivalents would benefit from more systematicity. For all