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patient role vs participant role

participant role vs patient role

patient role and participant role both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
patient role Yes No No No
participant role Yes No No No
As nouns, participant role is a hypernym of patient role; that is, participant role is a word with a broader meaning than patient role:
  • patient role: the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
  • participant role: (linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause
Other hypernyms of patient role include semantic role.
patient role (noun) participant role (noun)
the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause (linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause
Difference between patient role and participant role

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