English > semantic role: 1 sense > noun 1, communication| Meaning | (linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause. |
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| Synonym | participant role |
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| Category | linguistics | The scientific study of language |
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| Narrower | affected role, patient role, patient | The semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause |
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| agentive role, agent | The semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause |
| benefactive role, beneficiary | The semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause |
| instrumental role, instrument | The semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process |
| locative role, locative | The semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the place of the state or action denoted by the verb |
| recipient role, recipient | The semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause |
| resultant role, result | The semantic role of the noun phrase whose referent exists only by virtue of the activity denoted by the verb in the clause |
| temporal role, temporal | The semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the time of the state or action denoted by the verb |
| Broader | grammatical category, syntactic category | (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties |
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