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recipient role vs participant role

participant role vs recipient role

recipient role and participant role both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
recipient role Yes No No No
participant role Yes No No No
As nouns, participant role is a hypernym of recipient role; that is, participant role is a word with a broader meaning than recipient role:
  • recipient role: the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in 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 recipient role include semantic role.
recipient role (noun) participant role (noun)
the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in 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 recipient role and participant role

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