Université de Montréal - Thèse sous forme numérique

146facilitated by the fact that he uses a parallel corpus aligned on the paragraph level. Theidentification of the equivalents allows him to put forth a typology of situations forconfirmation of cross-linguistic correspondences and for solving cross-linguisticdivergences (Table 9).Based on the typology of equivalence degrees described in section 2.2.3, we canobserve from Table 9 that Schmidt (2009) identifies full, partial and zero equivalents.LUs in different languages that share identical meaning, parts of speech and argumentstructure are considered full equivalents. This is the case of nutmeg and tunneln (Table9). As for partial equivalence, Schmidt‘s typology identifies three cases: 1) LUs indifferent languages can share the same semantic characteristics and argument structures,but differ in their part of speech; 2) LUs in different languages share identical meaningand part of speech, but the grammatical properties of the LUs differ in some aspect; 3)there is no direct translation equivalent for a given LU but the user can look for lessspecific LUs in other languages such as hypernyms (Table 9).It will be relevant to compare Schmidt‘s typology which was based on theobservation of equivalents extracted from a parallel corpus with a typology that is basedon the observation of equivalents extracted from a comparable corpus such as the onewe use. We will attempt to do this in chapter 6.Recently, another project that covers the field of soccer as well as the field oftourism and that is based on Frame Semantics as well as on the Kicktionary has beenlaunched in Brazil (Gamonal 2011). ―Copa 2014‖ aims at developing a bilingual(English-Portuguese-English) electronic dictionary for the next FIFA World Cup whichwill be held in Brazil in 2014. Since this project has just been launched, no results orhave been reported yet.