| 11. | The verb " ca-" takes the theta roles of agent and experiencer.
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| 12. | Eventually, the experiencer will undergo an apparent " shift " into an altered state of consciousness.
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| 13. | Implicit in the assignment is the idea that the experiencer will be abducted again in the future.
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| 14. | There are three voices, which allow either the executor, the experiencer, or both to have focus:
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| 15. | During testing the experiencer is placed in front of a complicated electronic device and is instructed to operate it.
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| 16. | For instance, the A might be an experiencer or a source, semantically, not just an agent.
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| 17. | Later, she claims the experiencer had eye burns, saw lights and there seemed to be residual poltergeist activity.
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| 18. | Lastly, there is case marking reserved for non-focused non-agent / experiencer roles in the clause.
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| 19. | However, in ( b ), the theta role assigned by the involitive verb has been " demoted " to experiencer.
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| 20. | One of Mack's colleagues says the committee was formed in the wake of allegations made by former " experiencer"
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