Comparative Concept: semantic role (sem)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
semantic role (sem)
Typ | meaning |
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Alias(se) | semantic role • case • thematic role |
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a generalization across participant roles that are semantically similar from one event class to another. Example: many events involve a person who volitionally initiates the event, and this more general role is typically called the 'agent' role. (Section 6.1.1)