What is manner as a semantic role?

Manner is a semantic role that notes how the action, experience, or process of an event is carried out.

• What is a semantic role?

Larson 1984 203

Givón 1984 126

Context for this page:

• Concept module: manner
• In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): M
• In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
• In bookshelf: Linguistics

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