What is goal as a semantic role?

Goal is the semantic role of the

• place to which something moves, or
• thing toward which an action is directed.

• John swam to the raft.
• He threw the book at me.

• What is a semantic role?

Fillmore 1975 25–26

Larson 1984 199–203

Longacre 1983 163–164

Context for this page:

• Concept module: goal
• In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): G
• 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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