Université de Montréal - Thèse sous forme numérique

240properties allow for a direct usage in the representation of specialized knowledge. Onlyquasiterminological verbs and phraseological verbs should be included in terminologicalresources.According to this, the verbs that we selected that do not have morphologicalderivatives and that do not establish paradigmatic relations to other terms could beconsidered phraseological verbs (to adduce, to confer, to contend, to deem, to engage, toexceed, to render, to seek and to uphold). For Lorente (2007), phraseological verbs areverbs that when isolated their meaning is no different than the meaning they have in nonspecializedcontexts. However, when they are included in syntagmatic units such as toadduce evidence, to confer jurisdiction in which they co-occur with, at least, oneterminological unit playing the syntactic role of subject or object, then they acquire aspecialized value and can be said to belong to ―specialized phraseological units‖. However,our results show that the verbs that we selected that have morphological derivatives andthat establish paradigmatic relations to other terms are verbs that when isolated theirmeaning is also no different than the meaning they have in non-specialized contexts (toargue, to conclude, to constitute).For this reason, we believe that the classification proposed by Lorente does notapply particularly well to the verbs that we selected. What is more, we believe that theterms that we selected do not lend themselves well to any classification that accounts forthe nature or degree of specialization of the verbs. We did not observe either what Lerat(2002a) states when he argues that the stricter the argument selection, the higher theprobabilities of verbs being specialized.Other observations that can be drawn regarding the selection of terms relate to theterm extractor tool that was used as well as to the number of terms that were selected.TermoStat performed better in the extraction of English candidate terms than in the