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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)
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:::*''“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)
  
 
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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.
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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.
  
 
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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.