| 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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