agentive role

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsagent

   Broadersemantic role

Questions about agentive role

What does agentive role mean?

agentive role means "the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause".

What is another word for agentive role?

Close synonyms include agent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is agentive role a common word?

agentive role is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.