Recipients
Recipient (also: the recipient or receptor ) describes in linguistics the semantic role that something receives.
example
In German , the recipient is usually realized syntactically through an indirect object (dative in the case terminology), as in the following example, in which the noun phrase has the role of a recipient for the father :
(1.) Peter gives his father the binoculars.
literature
- Helmut Glück (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon Language. 4th updated and revised edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2010, keyword: recipient . ISBN 978-3-476-02335-3 .
Web links
Wiktionary: Recipient - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations