Semantic Role Agency in Perceptions of the Lexical Items Sick and Evil

Semantic Role Agency in Perceptions of the Lexical Items Sick and Evil

Inspired by an ongoing debate in the clinical sciences concerning the value of evil as a label for human behavior (Mowrer 1960, Staub 1999, Wellman 2000, Williams 2004 etc.), this thesis examines the semantic role of AGENT in the lexical items sick and evil. Williams makes the argument that the labe...

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Main Author: Simmons, Nathan G.
Format: Others
Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2008
Subjects:
Thematic Roles
Semantic Roles
Theta Roles
Agent
Lexicon
Lexical Semantics
Semantic Analysis
Evil
Sick
Psycho-linguistics
Socio-linguistics
Linguistics
Online Access:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1583
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2582&context=etd

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