participant role (sem)

Type meaning
Definition the role that a particular participant performs in an event -- specifically, what the participant does, or has done to them, in the course of the event. Example: in the eating event, there is an eater participant role and a food participant role, and different things happen with the eater and the food in the eating event. (Sections 6.1.1, 6.1.2)
altLabel Frame Element
altLabel microrole
altLabel participant
See section (in Croft 2022) 6.1.1
See section (in Croft 2022) 6.1.2
Function of argument phrase
Function of noun complement clause construction
Role of event

Source

The Model of Comparative concepts for Constructicon Alignment (MoCCA; Lorenzi et al. 2024) proposes to connect constructions across and within languages using Comparative Concepts as a shared base of comparison. It adopts the set of Comparative Concepts provided by Croft (2022).

Croft, William. 2022. Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World’s Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/morphosyntax/1AAB4F5F9C553F675170DCA3F03F82E2#contents. (14 October, 2025).
Lorenzi, Arthur, Peter Ljunglöf, Ben Lyngfelt, Tiago Timponi Torrent, William Croft, Alexander Ziem, Nina Böbel, Linnéa Bäckström, Peter Uhrig & Ely E Matos. 2024. MoCCA: A Model of Comparative Concepts for Aligning Constructicons. In Proceedings of the 20th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation @ LREC-COLING 2024, 93–98. Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL. https://aclanthology.org/2024.isa-1.12/. (22 July, 2025).

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