Patient or Vehicle? Semantic roles in German and English descriptive verbs (revisited)

Patient or Vehicle? Semantic roles in German and English descriptive verbs (revisited)

The paper investigates the problem of semantic roles within the concept of verb-descriptivity (Snell-Hornby 1983). Descriptive verbs are semantically complex lexical items, where the modifying components are more focal than the verbal action itself (as in bustle or strut), and where the participant...

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Main Author: Mary Snell-Hornby
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) 2006-06-01
Series:ELOPE
Subjects:
case grammar
semantic roles
verb-descriptivity
modificant
agent
patient
Online Access:https://journals.uni-lj.si/elope/article/view/3359

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