Journal of English Language Teaching and English Linguistics
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2015): Journal of English Language Teaching and English Linguistics

THEMATIC ROLE ASSIGNMENT IN ENGLISH SENTENCES: A QUICK GLANCE AT AN INTERFACE BETWEEN SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS

Eni Maharsi (Universitas Brawijaya)

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26 Dec 2019

Abstract

This paper examines the role of elements of English sentences by employing the approach ofthematic role assignment. The emphasis is on how the positioning of words and phrases insyntactic structure helps determine the roles that the referents of NPs play in the situationdescribed by the sentences. The results reveal that the position of an NP’s determines itsthematic role and. There is a relevance between deep syntactic structure and the assignmentof thematic roles for every NP in the sentence.

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Journal of English Language Teaching and English Linguistics
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Abbrev

eltics

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Universitas PGRI Yogyakarta

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Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

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Journal of English Language Teaching and English Linguistics is a peer-reviewed academic journal of studies in English language teaching and learning published biannually in January and July. Given that the journal prioritizes research reports in ELT, viewpoint articles in the same field will be ...