NOUN
- (linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause
How To Use semantic role In A Sentence
- We use the term ‘valence’ to describe semantically an actant of the verb, i. e., to describe the semantic role of the actant.
- The concept of an occurrent thought is that of a causally-mediating logico-semantic role player, whose determinate empirical/ontological character, and thereby logical space for some form of “identity theory” is so far left open. Wilfrid Sellars
- Transitive verbs typically have actants that play thematic semantic roles.
- But imperatives, interrogatives and declaratives are grammatical forms, while demanding action or requesting or giving information are semantic roles.
- But imperatives, interrogatives and declaratives are grammatical forms, while demanding action or requesting or giving information are semantic roles.
