English noun: semantic role | |||
1. | semantic role (communication) (linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause | ||
Synonyms | participant role | ||
Broader (hypernym) | grammatical category, syntactic category | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | affected role, agent, agentive role, benefactive role, beneficiary, instrument, instrumental role, locative, locative role, patient, patient role, recipient, recipient role, result, resultant role, temporal, temporal role | ||
Domain category | linguistics | ||