An Analytical Study of Thematic Roles Functioning in Hindi Syntax

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.