Proto-Patient Semantic Role

A Proto-Patient Semantic Role is a Semantic Role for some meaning of being affected by an event or agent.

• AKA: Patient Role, Patient.
• See: Proto-Agent Semantic Role, Semantic Role Labeling.

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References

• Martha Palmer, http://verbs.colorado.edu/~mpalmer/LexicalSemanticsII.ppt
  • Undergoes change of state
  • Incremental theme
  • Causally affected by another participant
  • Stationary relative to movement of another participant
  • (does not exist independently of the event, or at all)
  • *may be discourse pragmatic
• EAGLES Interest Group http://www.ilc.cnr.it/EAGLES96/rep2/node8.html
  • a participant which the verb characterizes as having something happen to it, and as being affected by what happens to it. Examples: objects of kill, eat, smash but not those of watch, hear, love.

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