Thematic roles – universal, particular, and idiosyncratic aspects

  • Thematic Roles (or Theta-Roles) are theoretical constructs that account for a variety of well known empirical facts, which are more or less clearly delimited. In other words, Theta-Roles are not directly observable, but they do have empirical content that is open to empirical observation. The objective of the present paper is to sketch the nature and content of Theta-Roles, distinguishing their universal foundation as part of the language faculty, their language particular realization, which depends on the conditions of individual languages, and idiosyncratic properties, determined by specific information of individual lexical items.

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Author:Manfred Bierwisch
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1134052
URL:http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/fileadmin/mitarbeiter/bierwisch/11_Bierwisch_2006_Thematic_Roles.pdf
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2009/10/13
Year of first Publication:2006
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2009/10/13
GND Keyword:Semantik
Page Number:25
Note:
Postprint, zuerst in: Ina Bornkessel, Matthias Schlesewsky, Bernard Comrie, Angela D. Friederici: Semantic Role Universals and Argument Linking. - Berlin: S. 89-126
Source:http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/fileadmin/mitarbeiter/bierwisch/11_Bierwisch_2006_Thematic_Roles.pdf ; In: Ina Bornkessel, Matthias Schlesewsky, Bernard Comrie, Angela D. Friederici: Semantic Role Universals and Argument Linking. - Berlin: S. 89-126
HeBIS-PPN:21940593X
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht