Editing Thematic role

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'''Thematic role''' is a [[linguistics|linguistic]] notion, which may refer to:

* [[Theta role]] (in syntax or at the syntax-semantics interface), the formal device for representing syntactic argument structure—the number and type of noun phrases—required syntactically by a particular verb
* [[Thematic relation]] (in semantics), a term to express the role that a noun phrase plays with respect to the action or state described by a governing verb

However, it should not be confused with the use of ''thematic'' with reference to the [[Word stem|stem]] ("the theme") of an inflected word, as in [[thematic vowel]].

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