English noun: participant role |
1. | participant role (communication) (linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause |
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| Synonyms | semantic role |
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| Broader (hypernym) | grammatical category, syntactic category |
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| 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 |
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| Domain category | linguistics |
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