"role shift" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it to refer to when a person changes from one role in a situation to another. For example: "The manager noticed a role shift in the team when the project began."
It has been nearly 15 years since Davenport was considered a dangerous, unseeded floater at a major tournament, but she is clearly relishing the role shift.
Thus, subject role shift is directly accompanied with constructional alternation.
Subject role shift is accompanied with constructional shift.
The mechanisms involved in semantic role shift also have a consequence on lexical status.
For stative predication, the subject role shift is accompanied with a constructional alternation from stative to causative constructions: (29) Stative-Causative alternation .
This points to an interesting and significant departure in lexicalization patterns, as will be further discussed in the section on subject role shift.
A few hours later, her role shifted.
Mr. Burns ended up trusting him, and thus began a decades-long collaboration during which Mr. Burns's role shifted from guide to collaborator.
Their role shifted after Mr. Putin became president, when those who defied the Kremlin found themselves facing prosecution, often on murky charges of tax evasion or environmental violations.
It's not until the fall of 1975, after Bundy is in custody, that Rule's role shifts from being inadvertently involved with a serial killer to an author considering how lucrative her access could be.
Constructional alternations with subject role shifts bear significant consequences in determining the lexical classes of the predicates.
