Just as in English the preposition " with " can express instrumental ( " using, by means of " ), comitative ( " in the company of " ), and a number of other semantic relations, the instrumental case in Russian is not limited to its instrumental thematic role.
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Among the main features of RRG are the use of lexical decomposition, based upon the predicate semantics of David Dowty ( 1979 ), an analysis of thematic roles organized into a hierarchy in which the highest-ranking roles are'Actor'( for the most active participant ) and'Undergoer '.
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Sometimes non-congruence between counterparts in the Matrix Language and Embedded Language can be circumvented by accessing bare forms . " Cell " is a bare form and so the thematic role of " cell " is assigned by the verb "-wek-"'put in / on'; this means that the verb is a content morpheme.
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Derek Kidner points out that the insertion of chapter 38 " creates suspense for the reader ", but Robert Alter goes further and suggests it is a result of the " brilliant splicing of sources by a literary artist . " He notes that the same verb " identify will play " a crucial thematic role in the d�nouement of the Joseph story when he confronts his brothers in Egypt, he recognizing them, they failing to recognize him ."
