Thematic Roles In Analysing Semantic Roles Of The Sentence

• Main Author: Hứa Văn Đức
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: HO CHI MINH CITY OPEN UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 2012-11-01
• Series: Tạp chí Khoa học Đại học Mở Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh - Khoa học Xã hội
• Online Access: https://journalofscience.ou.edu.vn/index.php/soci-vi/article/view/1187

Language learners need strategies for interpreting contextual clues, which can provide them with information about the likely content of the languge to which they are being exposed. An English sentence is make up of units that combine to contribute to an overall semantic interpretation. Each unit of the sentence bears a grammatical relation to some other unit or combination. Noun phrases and sometimes clauses can bear a subject or object relation within the larger structure. These noun phrases and clauses also function as arguments of their predicate, and their semantic roles, roles such as “doer”, are essentially semantic relations within the larger language structure. The term thematic role is used to identify the arguments that the predicate requires. The theme is the entity to which the action happens.