semantic role

Questions about semantic role

What does semantic role mean?

semantic role means "(linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause".

What is another word for semantic role?

Close synonyms include participant role. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is semantic role a common word?

semantic role is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.