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The term '''benefactive''' is sometimes uses as a synonym of [[beneficiary]], for the semantic role of the participants who benefits from an action. | The term '''benefactive''' is sometimes uses as a synonym of [[beneficiary]], for the semantic role of the participants who benefits from an action. | ||
:::*“The benefactive (or beneficiary) is the semantic role of an emphatic participant which is favoured by a situation, especially by the action of another animate being. […] A prototypical benefactive situation additionally requires an undergoer, i.e. the entity which is created or affected in favour of the beneficiary. This one […] is — contrary to the other two participants— prototypically inanimate.” (Lehmann et al. 2000:93) | :::*''“The benefactive (or beneficiary) is the semantic role of an emphatic participant which is favoured by a situation, especially by the action of another animate being. […] A prototypical benefactive situation additionally requires an undergoer, i.e. the entity which is created or affected in favour of the beneficiary. This one […] is — contrary to the other two participants— prototypically inanimate.”'' (Lehmann et al. 2000:93) | ||
===Other meanings=== | ===Other meanings=== | ||
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*[[Lehmann, Christian]], Y.-M. Shin & [[Elisabeth Verhoeven]] (2000) Person Prominence and Relation Prominence. On the typology of syntactic relations with special reference to Yucatec Maya. Munich: LINCOM Europa. | *[[Lehmann, Christian]], Y.-M. Shin & [[Elisabeth Verhoeven]] (2000) ''Person Prominence and Relation Prominence. On the typology of syntactic relations with special reference to Yucatec Maya.'' Munich: LINCOM Europa. | ||
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[[Category:Semantics]] | [[Category:Semantics]] | ||
[[Category:Semantic role]] | [[Category:Semantic role]] | ||
Latest revision as of 09:27, 16 June 2008
The term benefactive is sometimes uses as a synonym of beneficiary, for the semantic role of the participants who benefits from an action.
- “The benefactive (or beneficiary) is the semantic role of an emphatic participant which is favoured by a situation, especially by the action of another animate being. […] A prototypical benefactive situation additionally requires an undergoer, i.e. the entity which is created or affected in favour of the beneficiary. This one […] is — contrary to the other two participants— prototypically inanimate.” (Lehmann et al. 2000:93)
Other meanings
The term is also (and more commonly) used for constructions that code or introduce a beneficiary participant in one way or another, especially for benefactive applicatives and benefactive adpositions.
Reference
- Lehmann, Christian, Y.-M. Shin & Elisabeth Verhoeven (2000) Person Prominence and Relation Prominence. On the typology of syntactic relations with special reference to Yucatec Maya. Munich: LINCOM Europa.