| 1. | Not all lexical cases have the same associated theta role.
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| 2. | The term " thematic relation " is frequently confused with theta role.
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| 3. | The reason for this is simple : theta roles typically reference thematic relations.
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| 4. | Theta roles are a syntactic relation that refers to the semantic thematic relations.
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| 5. | As such, the theta role is called the " agent " theta role.
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| 6. | As such, the theta role is called the " agent " theta role.
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| 7. | The theta roles are named by the most prominent thematic relation that they contain.
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| 8. | The top row represents the names of the thematic relations contained in the theta role.
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| 9. | In ( a ) the theta role assigned by the volitive verb is an agent.
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| 10. | This class of verbs subcategorizes for direct objects and does not assign agent theta roles.
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