semantic role

Noun semantic role has 1 sense

• semantic role(n = noun.communication) participant role - (linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause;
is a kind of grammatical category, syntactic category
has particulars: affected role, patient, patient role, agent, agentive role, benefactive role, beneficiary, instrument, instrumental role, locative, locative role, recipient, recipient role, result, resultant role, temporal, temporal role