Glossary term R

Result

A result is a semantic role that refers to that which is produced by an event.

This role is usually encoded as the surface object of a sentence.

The term result is similar in meaning to the term range as used by Longacre and others.

They baked a cake.

  1. Fillmore 1968
  2. Larson 1984, 199–203
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