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

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