In linguistics, the grammatical patient, also called the target or undergoer, is a semantic role representing the participant of a situation upon whom...

downgraded to patient because it is the direct object of the sentence. Active–stative language English passive voice Passive voice Patient (grammar) Kroeger...

Patient (grammar), in linguistics, the participant of a situation upon whom an action is carried out Patient (memoir), a book by Ben Watt The Patient:...

adopted more or less directly into Latin and Greek grammars; from there, it made its way into English grammars, where it is applied directly to the analysis...

Generative grammar is a research tradition in linguistics that aims to explain the cognitive basis of language by formulating and testing explicit models...

Grammatical case Object (grammar) Preparatory subject Quirky subject Sentence (linguistics) Subjective (grammar) Term logic Traditional grammar Comrie (1989), pp...

1  Cases should be distinguished from thematic roles such as agent and patient. They are often closely related, and in languages such as Latin, several...

Tagalog grammar (Tagalog: Balarilà ng Tagalog) are the rules that describe the structure of expressions in the Tagalog language, one of the languages...

meanings of the terms agent, patient, experiencer, and instrument, see thematic relation. Mäkinen, Panu. "Finnish Grammar - Exterior local cases". users...

clause. The standard examples of grammatical functions from traditional grammar are subject, direct object, and indirect object. In recent times, the syntactic...

linguistics, transformational grammar (TG) or transformational-generative grammar (TGG) is part of the theory of generative grammar, especially of natural languages...

outlines the grammar of the Dutch language, which shares strong similarities with German grammar and also, to a lesser degree, with English grammar. Vowel length...

Predicate Raising Control Applicative voice Thematic relation Agent (grammar) Patient (grammar) Morphosyntactic alignment Nominative–accusative language Ergative–absolutive...

on the pragmatic dichotomy of topic and comment. In English traditional grammar types, three types of object are acknowledged: direct objects, indirect...

Argument Arity Case grammar Dependency grammar Grammatical conjugation Lucien Tesnière Morphosyntactic alignment Phrase structure grammar Subcategorization...

Some dependency grammars, for instance, employ the term circonstant (instead of adjunct), following Tesnière (1959). The area of grammar that explores the...

the label P (from patient) for O. Note that while the labels S, A, O, and P originally stood for subject, agent, object, and patient, respectively, the...

In grammar, the voice (aka diathesis) of a verb describes the relationship between the action (or state) that the verb expresses and the participants...

Functional grammar (FG) and functional discourse grammar (FDG) are grammar models and theories motivated by functional theories of grammar. These theories...

The following is an overview of the grammar of the Slovene language. As in most other Slavic languages, changes to consonants and vowels often occur between...

is to avoid a serious injury, risk of brain damage or death, until the patient reaches specialized attention. Brain death Coma Cryptobiosis Immortality...

In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence,...

extensive system of inflection. This article describes exclusively the grammar of the Shtokavian dialect, which is a part of the South Slavic dialect...

all languages. Dependency grammars sometimes call arguments actants, following Lucien Tesnière (1959). The area of grammar that explores the nature of...

In linguistics and grammar, affirmation (abbreviated AFF) and negation (NEG) are ways in which grammar encodes positive and negative polarity into verb...

Reflexive, or the property reflexivity, may refer to: Metafiction Reflexivity (grammar): Reflexive pronoun, a pronoun with a reflexive relationship with its self-identical...

least) are quite usual. In many languages, including English, traditional grammar requires the comparative form to be used when exactly two things are being...

eating, so she is an agent; an apple is the item that is eaten, so it is a patient. Since their introduction in the mid-1960s by Jeffrey Gruber and Charles...

Test Yourself: Spanish Grammar (1 ed.). McGraw-Hill. p. 85. ISBN 0844223743. L'Huillier, Monique (1999). Advanced French Grammar. Cambridge University...

Relativity of Irreality. In: Bybee, J. & Fleischman, S. (Eds.) Modality in Grammar and Discourse John Benjamins Asher, R. E. (ed.), The Encyclopedia of language...