Typology of Semantic Roles of Actants and Predicates in Contemporary Linguistic Science

Abstract

The article is devoted to the concept of the semantic role and its interpretation within the framework of the theory of the predicate-argumentative structure of the utterance as well as to the principles of distinguishing the semantic roles of the actants of predicates, their composition and number. The article describes the essential differences in the approaches to the description of the semantic structure of the utterance: formal, logical, communicative-pragmatic and predicate-argumentative. Attention is focused on the problem of actants’ semantic roles classification on the basis of predicates, their properties, the relationship of the semantic structure of the predicate and the semantic roles of actants.