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Definition of Agentive
1. Adjective. (linguistics) Indicating an agent or agency (as -er in lexicographer). ¹
2. Adjective. (linguistics) Pertaining to a grammatical agent that performs the action of the verb. ¹
3. Noun. (linguistics) A word having this construction. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Agentive
1. a word part that denotes the doer of an action [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agentive
Literary usage of Agentive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Jummoo and Kashmir Territories: A Geographical Account by Frederic Drew (1875)
"agentive tusen by you. ... -vich, -par agentive une from, in, on them. ...
-par agentive Nominative Genitive Dative Accusative isse-ne Plural. iai indai, ..."
2. Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir (1921)
"The word farm.er has an ' ' agentive" suffix -er that performs the function of
indicating the one that carries out a given activity, in this case that of ..."
3. Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children's Learningby Peter H. Johnston by Peter H. Johnston (2004)
"Aside from the strategy review this provides, it insists that the student adopt
an agentive position in the retold narrative. Such a narrative invites a ..."
4. Hand-book of Colloquial Tibetan: A Practical Guide to the Language of by Graham Sandberg (1894)
"A slight variation is made in the affixes attached in the Genitive and agentive
cases when the word declined ends in the letter k or ug. ..."
5. A Dictionary of the Hindee Language by John Drew Bate (1875)
"... z-»- (an agentive case of н) = g*f, ?•»• , »г. ... branch of the agentive case
of Я) = c[H, qv [Yajur-Ved. a* ; compare (1) g % (2) ..."
6. Panjābī Grammar: A Brief Grammar of Panjābī as Spoken in the Wazīrābād District by Thomas Grahame Bailey (1904)
"(2) In a clause containing a noun or pronoun in the agentive case, the affix
cannot be used ... itself the agentive case in question. Thus we may say ma! ..."
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