Sentence semantics 2: Participants

Sentence semantics 2: Participants

1. Entities

   • Participant roles
   • Deep semantic cases
   • Semantic roles
   • Thematic relations
   • Thematic roles
     • Agent
     • Patient
     • Theme

2. Grammatical relations

   • Prepositional phrases
     • When is not the case
       • Omitted the grammatical relations
       • Chooses to match roles

3. Problems

   • Delimiting particular roles
   • How to define theta- roles

4. Voice

   • Passive voice
   • Middle voice