Chapter 6 Sentence semantics 2: Participants

Chapter 6 Sentence semantics 2: Participants

1. Classifying participants

   • Entity
   • Acted
   • Sematic roles

2. Thematic roles

   • Agent
     • Initiator
   • Patient
     • undergoing of the action
   • Theme
     • entity which is moved
   • Experiencier
     • Entity aware of the action
   • Beneficiary
     • benefit of action
   • Instrument
     • to perform the action
   • Location
     • Place
   • Goal
     • Entity wich recive the object
   • Source
     • From which something moves

3. Grammatical Relations and Thematic Roles

   • subjects to agents
   • Direct objects to patients
   • Agent sudject
   • Experiencer subjects
   • Recipient subject

4. Problems with Thematic Roles

   • Delimiting particular roles
   • how defien theta-roles

5. Voice

   • Describe
   • Point of view of patient
   • Passive voice

6. Midle voice

   • Subject afected by adverb
   • Affectedness
   • Neuter intransitives
   • Bodily activity
   • Reflexives
   • Autobenefactives

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