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Adjectives can assign thematic roles in English and other languages
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Linguistic literature confirms that adjectives, alongside other predicates like verbs, can assign thematic roles to their arguments.

Evidence for · 2
Book: Theory of Language
2000 · cited by 0
Explicitly states that adjectives like hesitant can assign thematic roles.
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Book: The Routledge Companion to Linguistics in India
2022 · cited by 0
States that predicates including adjectives assign thematic roles to their arguments.
Everything we examined (23)
  1. Wikipedia: Adjectivereferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  2. Wikipedia: Thematic rolereferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  3. Wikipedia: Grammatical casereferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  4. Wikipedia: Grammatical genderreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  5. Book: Diachronic Change in the English Passivereferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  6. Book: Theory of Languagereferencesupports
  7. Book: The Routledge Companion to Linguistics in Indiareferencesupports
  8. Book: Codeswitching Worldwide. [I]referenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  9. Book: The Development of Languagereferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  10. Book: Linguistics in the Netherlands 1986referenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  11. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: God and Other Ultimatesreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  12. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: God and Other Necessary Beingsreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  13. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Analytic Philosophy in Latin Americareferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  14. Oxford University Press: Syntax : theory and problemsreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  15. Pearson Education Asia Pte Ltd: Sentence head and sentence structure : a study with special reference to Chinesereferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  16. CSLI Publications: English syntax : an introductionreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  17. Cambridge University Press: English syntax : an introductionreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  18. Macmillan: English syntax and argumentationreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  19. Foris: Syntactic modularityreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  20. Springer: Locality domains in the Spanish determiner phrasereferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  21. Blackwell Pub.: Syntax : a generative introductionreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  22. OpenAIRE: PREPOSITIONS AND THEIR SYNTACTIC USE IN ALBANIAN AND ENGLISHpeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  23. Roles and the compositional semantics of role-denoting relational adjectivespeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
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