| 11. | The verb " ca-" takes the theta roles of agent and experiencer.
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| 12. | In particular, theta roles are often referred to by the most prominent thematic relation in them.
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| 13. | For example, a common theta role is the primary or "'external "'argument.
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| 14. | This is because theta roles are typically named by the most prominent thematic relation that they are associated with.
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| 15. | Typically, although not always, this theta role maps to a noun phrase which bears an agent thematic relation.
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| 16. | What can be considered the patient of an English verb, may be cast in a different theta role in Ilocano.
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| 17. | In some work e . g .,, this box also contains information about the category associated with the theta role.
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| 18. | However, in ( b ), the theta role assigned by the involitive verb has been " demoted " to experiencer.
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| 19. | In 1968, he published his theory of semantic roles or thematic relations, which are similar to theta roles in generative grammar.
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| 20. | A theta grid is where theta roles are stored for a particular verb ( see Section 2 on the theta role page ).
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