Université de Montréal - Thèse sous forme numérique

71defined by taking into account their mandatory participants and they can group togetherterms in one or more languages that are defined relative to the frames. So, based onPiotrowski (1994), we formulate the hypothesis that the feature according to which therelationship of equivalence should be established needs to be equated as an externalentity or tertium comparationis. In the case of the present research, this entity is calledframe.As semantic frames tend to group together terms that share similar syntactic andsemantic patterns, the description of the linguistic behaviour of the terms is facilitated.Based on the principles explained by Piotrowski (1994) as well as by Atkins andRundell (2008), we formulate the hypothesis that the syntagmatic contexts of terms canbe extremely useful for the differentiation of equivalents (i.e. the linguisticinformation). In fact, the extralinguistic (frames) as well as the linguistic (syntagmaticcontext of the terms) description of the terms should provide enough information tounderstand why a given term in one language is an equivalent of a term in anotherlanguage.The phenomenon of partial equivalence by inclusion is defined in the literatureas a situation in which a term in one language denotes a more generic concept than theterm in another language. How can one include the possibility of examining thisphenomenon in a methodology for establishing equivalents? Could this generic-specificrelation be identified by examining the linguistic behaviour of the terms? For instance,could the equivalents of specialized verbs be considered ―partial equivalents byinclusion‖ because the realizations of the actants of a term in language A may denotegeneric concepts whereas the realizations of the actants of the equivalent in language Bdenote specific ones? Also, the literature states that two terms can be partial equivalentsbecause they do not share some mandatory conceptual characteristics (partial