Abstract
This chapter presents some general remarks on semantic roles. It describes and re-assesses the status of the Experiencer and the Stimulus and accounts for their peculiar morphosyntactic behavior in different languages, but shedding particular light on Indo-European. The Experiencer and the Stimulus are particularly intriguing semantic roles to explore phenomena at the syntax-semantics interface, since their conceptual characterization is complex in different respects and can have a number of consequences at the level of linguistic coding. The chapter examines the main components of experiential situations and offers a discussion of the constitutive properties of Experiencers and Stimuli. It discusses some proposals that have been made regarding the interaction between event conceptualization and syntactic coding in Experiential constructions. The chapter provides a brief sketch of four experiential construction types in ancient Indo-European languages. It concludes that the Experiencer-centered constructions are the most widespread in all of Indo-European.Keywords: Experiencer; experiential constructions; Indo-European languages; linguistic coding; semantic role; syntax-semantics interface
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