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72equivalence by intersection). Could the absent essentialia, to which Šarčević (1991)refers, be identified by observing the linguistic behaviour of the terms in the corpus?Furthermore, according to the literature, partial equivalents may also correspondto functional equivalents. We mentioned that for Adamska-Sałaciak functionalequivalence is sought ―in situations where it is impossible to provide a lexicalequivalent of the headword, one which would be both its semantic and grammatical(same part of speech) counterpart‖ (2010: 395) and that she feels that functionalequivalents is our odd man out. In legal terminography, too, functional equivalence isnot only very often mentioned but also defined in a slightly different way in that it isassociated to the legal effect that terms create. Two partial equivalents are said to befunctional equivalents if they create the same legal effect in the source text as well as inthe target text. Given that one of the specificities of legal language is its performativeand constitutive function (cf. section 2.2.1) has functional equivalence to be trulyconsidered a category on its own? Is it valid only for those cases in which it isimpossible to provide a lexical equivalent that corresponds to the same part of speech?These are some of the questions we will attempt to answer in Chapter 5.2.3. Approaches to specialized verbsDespite the scarce or null presence of verbs in terminographic resources, over the lastdecades some terminologists have defended that specialized knowledge can beexpressed at word class level not only by nouns but also by verbs (L‘Homme 1995,1998; Lorente 2000). Other terminologists at least recognize that verbs play a relevantrole in certain specialized discourses (Costa and Silva 2004; De Vecchi and Eustachy2008). This way, although prototypical terms are still considered to be nouns, verbsoccurring in specialized texts have been more and more studied.