Debunking some myths about the role and relevance of (restricted) semantic role sets: Some thoughts on Ágel & Höllein 2021
Hans Christian Boas, Alexander Ziem · 2022
1. IntroductionThis paper discusses Ágel and Höllein’s (2021) proposals regarding the status of semantic roles as well as their relevance for the syntax-semantics interface in German. On their view, a specific restricted list of semantic roles can be used to model the meaning side of complex linguistic signs, so-called “Satzbauplanzeichen” (‘clause pattern signs’, lit. ‘signs of sentence-building plans’, a type of complex linguistic sign), which are assumed to be completely abstract signs th...