David,
You might find this paper by David Dowtey interesting. It is an argument
against a finite number of roles and proposes a reasonable alternative.
Regards,
Steve Appleby
@dowtey91
type:article
title:Thematic Proto-roles and Argument Selection
author:David Dowtey
year:1991
journal:Language
volume:67
number:3
pp:547-619
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