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Thematic Roles

Thematic Roles is a linguistic concept referring to the semantic roles, such as agent, patient, or theme, that noun phrases play with respect to the action or state denoted by a verb, thereby capturing the underlying relational structure between predicates and their arguments in sentence meaning.

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Thematic proto-roles and argument selection

David R. Dowty · Language · 1991 · 3.9K citations · Full text

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Thematic Proto-Roles and Argument Selection

David R. Dowty · Language · 1991 · 1.1K citations

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The Status of Thematic Relations in Linguistic Theory

Ray Jackendoff · Linguistic Inquiry · 1987 · 648 citations

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Thematic Roles Assigned along the Garden Path Linger

Kiel Christianson, Andrew Hollingworth, John F. Halliwell et al. · Cognitive Psychology · 2001 · 618 citations

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Integrating Verbs, Situation Schemas, and Thematic Role Concepts

Todd R. Ferretti, Ken McRae, Andrea Hatherell · Journal of Memory and Language · 2001 · 419 citations

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    Gregory L. Murphy

    New York University, United States

    3 publications · 345 citations

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    Jesse Snedeker

    Harvard University, United States

    3 publications · 119 citations

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    Emilie L. Lin

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    2 publications · 333 citations

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    David R. Dowty

    The Ohio State University, United States

    2 publications · 4.9K citations

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    Ken McRae

    Western University, Canada

    2 publications · 714 citations

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  1. University of Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    558 citations

  2. University of Maryland, College Park

    College Park, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    213 citations

  3. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    3 h-index

    10 publications

    928 citations

  4. New York University

    New York, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    108 citations

  5. Saarland University

    Saarbrücken, Germany

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    593 citations

  6. University of Florida

    Gainesville, United States

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    258 citations

  7. Harvard University Press

    Cambridge, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    128 citations

  8. University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Birmingham, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    151 citations

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  1. Cognition

    5 publications · 775 citations

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  2. Linguistic Inquiry

    4 publications · 843 citations

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  3. Journal of Memory and Language

    4 publications · 1K citations

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  4. Language

    4 publications · 5.1K citations

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  5. Brain and Language

    4 publications · 492 citations

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