RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Kittilä, Seppo A1 Zúñiga, Fernando YR 2014 T1 Recent developments and open questions in the field of semantic roles JF Studies in Language. International Journal sponsored by the Foundation “Foundations of Language” VO 38 IS 3 SP 437 OP 462 DO https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.38.3.01kit PB John Benjamins SN 0378-4177, AB This introductory chapter briefly introduces a few milestones in the voluminous previous literature on semantic roles, and charts the territory in which the papers of this volume aim to make a contribution. This territory is characterized by fairly disparate conceptualizations of semantic roles and their status in theories of grammar and the lexicon, as well as by diverse and probably complementary ways of deriving or identifying them based on linguistic data. Particular attention is given to the question of how selected roles appear to relate to each other, and we preliminarily address the issue of how roles, subroles, and role complexes are best thought of in general., UL https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/sl.38.3.01kit