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Case role

Case roles, according to the work by Charles J. Fillmore (1967), are the semantic roles of noun phrases (NP) in relation to the syntactic structures that contain these noun phrases. The term case role is most widely used for purely semantic relations, including theta roles and thematic roles, that can be independent of the morpho-syntax. The concept of…

Morphological case, Multiple case roles & Structural Case

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Inventory of case roles

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Multiple case roles

Relating case roles to morphological case and structural Case

Morphological case

Structural Case

Debate about case role

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Case role

Nodes90
Edges89
Triples51
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.022222
Components1

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Case role

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related to Debate about case role · 10
Case role → Aleut, Because, Case, Greek, In, Instead, Latin, Thai, There, These
related to Multiple case roles · 10
Case role → Bhat, However, In, John, NP, Sentence, The, There, This, With
related to Examples in Kannada · 8
Case role → Agent, Evidence, Experiencer, India, Kannada, Location, NPs, Object
related to Semantic vs. morphological · 7
Case role → By, Case, DP, Fillmore, From, Morphological, The
related to Fillmore's alternative theory · 3
Case role → Conversely, Fillmore, The
related to Inventory of case roles · 1
Case role → The

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case semantic accusative role english assigned noun roles languages cases nominative language morphological syntactic dative genitive object verb ergative latin

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
nominative usually mark predictable theta rolesinstance ofLexical cases0.80text
but there is a substantial amount of characteristic behaviour involved indicating that a verb's ability to assign a lexical case to one of its arguments must be specified in that verb's lexical entryinstance ofLexical cases0.80text
Russianinstance ofat the level of the deep structure in conjunction with theta role assignment.Languages0.80text
Japanese follow a similar mechanism of case assignment as that seen in Latininstance ofat the level of the deep structure in conjunction with theta role assignment.Languages0.80text
Englishinstance ofThe distribution of nominals in languages0.80text
where there is a lack of case morphologyinstance ofThe distribution of nominals in languages0.80text
is governed by the same precise laws that also regulate nominativeinstance ofThe distribution of nominals in languages0.80text
accusative case in morphologically overt case-marked languages such as Latininstance ofThe distribution of nominals in languages0.80text
Russianinstance ofThe distribution of nominals in languages0.80text
vocative caseinstance ofEnglish lacks formal cases0.80text
ablative caseinstance ofEnglish lacks formal cases0.80text
Aleut or Thaiinstance ofit was found that there were difficulties in approaching other languages0.80text

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