Semantics Roles (Linguistics / Linguistics 83)

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1. what is patient as a semantic role?

2. Can be semantic role of a word different from sentence to sentence or its meaning is the same in all sentences?

3. what is the reason of that sound takes place at 3:22 ? 🙂

4. What is the difference between agent and theme? Please explain it with an example.

5. Was it Michel Bréal(founder of semantics) who came up with the names of semantic roles? As in are they translated directly from French? Agent, theme etc sounds a little weird for English. 🙂

6. Which sentence has the location as a participant?
   (a) she was playing by ball in the room.
   (b) she was putting the ball in the room.

7. The boy broke hıs leg. Thıs ıs agent or theme?

8. Does he speak Turkish? Doesn’t he use Turkish for explanation….

9. Can you help me out with the all semantic roles in the following sentence.
   (Go green) is (our)( slogan) in the (school).
   My teacher insists on go green been agent.Whereas I can't get it how's that.
   What about "our" and "slogan" then?
   Can you elaborate please.

10. Thank you so much … I have a linguistics exam tomorrow 🙁 …

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