The domain of semantic roles
- In: Andor, J. et al., eds. 1998. The diversity of linguistic description. Studies in honour of Béla Korponay. 1-38. Debrecen: Lajos Kossuth University.
- The domain of semantic roles reviews some of the attempts to characterise semantic roles with a view to eliciting whatever there might be of principle to characterise the set of semantic roles and the semantic domain of the set. Principles of contrast and complementarity are discussed in section 2 in relation to participant roles. Section 3 considers and repudiates some attempts to supplement such a set with an over-arching set of 'macroroles'. Section 4 (re-)presents a hypothesis concerning the set of semantic relations which conforms to requirements of contrast and complementarity and embodies a particular substantive proposal – that of localism – concerning their semantic domain. Section 5 considers to what extent the hypothesis of 4 is applicable to circumstantial arguments. And section 6 looks at the interaction of the domain of semantic roles with adjacent (co-expressed) 'dimensions' and the extent to which there is empirical support for circumscribing such a domain.
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Anderson, John M.
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