TEMPORAL ROLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does temporal role mean? 

• TEMPORAL ROLE (noun)
  The noun TEMPORAL ROLE has 1 sense:

1. the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the time of the state or action denoted by the verb

  Familiarity information: TEMPORAL ROLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEMPORAL ROLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the time of the state or action denoted by the verb

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

temporal; temporal role

Hypernyms ("temporal role" is a kind of...):

participant role; semantic role ((linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause)