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agentive role

DEFINITIONS OF: agentive role

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n the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

Synonyms:
agent
Type of:
participant role, semantic role
(linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause
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