For thematic roles in the semantic tradition, see Thematic relation.
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Linguistic typology
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Theta role
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VO languages
Subject–verb–object
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Subject–object–verb
Object–subject–verb
Object–verb–subject
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Theta roles are the names of the participant roles associated with a predicate: the predicate may be a verb, an adjective, a preposition, or a noun. If an object is in motion or in a steady state as the speakers perceives the state, or it is the topic of discussion, it is called a theme.[1] The[clarification needed] participant is usually said to be an argument of the predicate. In generative grammar, a theta role or θ-role is the formal device for representing syntactic argument structure—the number and type of noun phrases—required syntactically by a particular verb. For example, the verb put requires three arguments (i.e., it is trivalent)[citation needed].
The formal mechanism for implementing a verb's argument structure is codified as theta roles. The verb put is said to "assign" three theta roles. This is coded in a theta grid associated with the lexical entry for the verb. The correspondence between the theta grid and the actual sentence is accomplished by means of a bijective filter on the grammar known as the theta criterion. Early conceptions of theta roles include Fillmore (1968) (Fillmore called theta roles "cases") and Gruber (1965).
Theta roles are prominent in government and binding theory and the standard theory of transformational grammar.
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verb and is assigned thetaroles that would normally be assigned elsewhere in the sentence, specifically it takes the thetarole of the active subject...
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synthesize many concepts into a single word, using affixes regularly. Syntactic roles are assigned to words primarily by word order. For example, by changing...
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a meaningful thetarole to a subject, a subject must be present syntactically. As a result, verbs that do not assign external thetaroles will appear with...
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