Grammatical Relations and Semantic Roles of Arguments in English Verbs of Transfer “Convey”

This study entitled Grammatical Relations and Semantic Roles of Arguments in English Verbs Transfer “Convey”. It focused on grammatical relations semantic role argument within a certain structure. The particular only data source this is Corpus Contemporary American English. used accidental sampling method. Therefore, every found are constructed with transfer verb “convey” proposed by Levin. Base theories the analysis Relation Role Kroeger, while it supported theory Proto-Roles Dowty Taylor. representation chosen presented both formal in-formal There 3 different structures 100 samplings. Transitive Structure turn out to be most dominant structure, other which intransitive ditransitive reasonably represented. All found, they Subject, Object, Oblique, Adjunct. In hand, all roles except stimulus, beneficiary, accompaniment. Terms proto-agent proto-patient supports mapping content. Some such as theme instrument have lexical understanding. divided into three terms; physical, perceptive, abstract entities. Specifically, agent classified indication non-symbolic agent, metaphorical agent.