recipient role
- noun
- Specialized
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rol de receptor
- In the sentence 'She gave the dog a treat,' the dog fulfils the recipient role.
Examples
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In the sentence 'Alice sent Bob an email,' Bob fulfills the recipient role.
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Understanding the recipient role is important in analyzing sentence structure in linguistics.
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Not every verb can assign a recipient role to an argument in a sentence.
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In the sentence, John plays the recipient role.
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The recipient role is crucial for understanding the sentence structure.
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The recipient role is essential when identifying who receives the action in a verb.
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In linguistics, recognizing the recipient role helps clarify how different elements interact in a sentence.
Synonyms
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3.7
A person or organization that gets something
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2.7
A person who gets something someone sends, gives, or throws
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7.0
The person who receives something from an action, for example 'him' in 'She baked him a cake'
A person or thing that an action happens to in a sentence
A person or thing that an action happens to but does not cause
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the semantic role of the person who receives something' is directly and compositionally derived from 'recipient' (person who gets something) plus 'role' (function or position). This is a straightforward technical noun-noun compound following common patterns found across languages, so a learner who knows both constituent words can understand the MWE.
Etymology
Recipient role comes from the simple picture of someone receiving a gift: the recipient is the person who gets the present and the role is their job in the sentence. So in language study, recipient role names the person or animal 'who receives' or is affected by the action.