Comparative Concept: agent (sem)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
agent (sem)
| Typ | meaning |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | agent |
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Definition
a semantic role that includes participant roles for a participant that volitionally initiates an event. Example: in Jack broke the window, Jack volitionally initiates the breaking event. (Section 6.1.2)