Abstract:
Thematic roles attempt to capture similarities and differ
ences in verb meaning reflected in argument expression,
with emergent generalizations contributing to mapping se
mantics to syntax. The verb is usually most directly respon
sible for the thematic role, while the argument specifies the
identity of the participants of the sentence. The objective
of the present study was to map the thematic roles of Hindi
to identify the thematic relationship in Hindi syntax. The
present study focuses on conceptualizing semantic roles
and their status in theories of grammar and the lexicon in
Hindi, as well as diverse and probably complementary ways
of deriving or identifying them based on linguistic data.
Data were gathered using library surveys and verified by
Hindi native speakers. Data analysis was performed as an
analytical study based on syntactic and semantic theories.
The present analysis was carried out using thematic roles
currently identified by linguists. The key research findings
of this paper are based on identifying several features of
thematic roles belonging to Hindi. This paper emphasized
that different semantic roles can be assigned to arguments
of different lexical semantics.
