Proto-Patient Semantic Role
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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.
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.