A critical function of human language is to specify who did what to whom. Sentences serve this function by acting as miniature plays, with actors(typically labeled by noun phrases) playing roles in the event labeled b...A critical function of human language is to specify who did what to whom. Sentences serve this function by acting as miniature plays, with actors(typically labeled by noun phrases) playing roles in the event labeled by the verb. In the study of modern syntactic and semantics, theta role occupies quite an important place. This paper is a general overview of thematic role which may make a successful story on further study.展开更多
文摘A critical function of human language is to specify who did what to whom. Sentences serve this function by acting as miniature plays, with actors(typically labeled by noun phrases) playing roles in the event labeled by the verb. In the study of modern syntactic and semantics, theta role occupies quite an important place. This paper is a general overview of thematic role which may make a successful story on further study.
