Patient

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Patient is a one type of argument of a verb. An argument is a patient if the action expressed by the verb is directed at or affects the referent of the argument.

Example

her is a patient in John hit her.

Links

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

References

  • Jackendoff, R. 1990. Semantic Structures, Cambridge, MIT-Press.