party is at 9pm; The concert is over.
It isn’t clear just how far we should go in creating semantic categories for subjects
or any other grammatical construction. Meaning is a continuum and we could go on
forever creating ever finer semantic distinctions, but such an exercise has limited utility.
You will find that different grammarians sometimes employ different labels and gram-
marians don’t always agree on just what should be included in a given category, but
the roles agent, instrument, experiencer, and patient are quite standard. The semantic
categories discussed above can encompass a large number of English sentences and,
as you will see later, most of these categories have important grammatical implications.
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