Thematic role

Thematic role is a linguistic notion, which may refer to:

  • Theta role (in syntax or at the syntax-semantics interface), the formal device for representing syntactic argument structure—the number and type of noun phrases—required syntactically by a particular verb
  • Thematic relation (in semantics), a term to express the role that a noun phrase plays with respect to the action or state described by a governing verb
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