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This paper approaches the topic of thematic relations through a case study of the En­ glish suffix -ee, as in employee, escapee, and refugee. The data suggest that -ee is highly productive (section 1), that analyses based on the syntactic argument struc­ ture of the stem are incomplete or highly disjunctive (section 2), and that formation of nouns in -ee systematically adheres to three essentially semantic constraints: first, the referent of an -ee noun must be sentient (as often noted before, e.g., Bengtsson (1927:79); see section 3). Second, the denotation of an -ee noun must be episodi­ cally linked to that of its stem (see section 4 for a formal semantic event-based defini­ tion of "episodically linked"). Third, a use of an -ee noun entails a lack of volitional control on the part of its referent This last constraint as developed more precisely below (see section 5) takes seriously the common references to -ee as a 'patient' suffix and elaborates on Hom's (1980:142) claim that "the animate -ee nominal is presented as helpless or relatively powerless". Taken together, these semantic con­ straints amount to a kind of thematic relation similar in many ways to traditional verbal thematic relations such as Agent or Patient Thus thematic relations, or some­ thing very much like them, can actively constrain application of a moderately pro­ ductive morphological process.

Episodic -ee in English: Thematic Relations and New Word Formation