Participants

Participants

1. Thematic Roles

   • Agent
     • Initiator of some action
   • Patient
     • The effect of some action
   • Theme
     • Entity moved by an action
   • Experiencer
     • Aware of the action
   • Beneficiary
     • The action was performed
   • Instrument
     • Action is performed
   • Location
     • The place
   • Goal
     • The entity towards
   • Source
     • The entity form which something moves

2. Thematic tier

   • Jackendoff
     • Describes spatial relations

3. Grammatical Relations and Thematic Roles

   • 2 basic situations
     • Roles are simply omitted
     • The speaker chooses to alter the usual matching

4. Verbs and Thematic Role Grids

   • verbs have a requirements for their roles

5. Problems with Thematic Roles

   • Delimiting particular roles
   • How define theta-roles

6. Motivation for identifying thematic roles

   • Roles and grammatical relationship
     • The external cause is not represented

7. Voice

   • Passive voice
     • The speaker to describe the situation

8. Middle voice

   • Varies from language to language

9. Neuter intransitives

10. Bodily activity and emotion

    • The subject is involved

11. Reflexives

    • Autobenefactives:
      • Spanish middle reflexives