Associations to the word «Agentive»
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Wiktionary
AGENTIVE, adjective. (linguistics) Indicating an agent or agency (as -er in lexicographer).
AGENTIVE, adjective. (linguistics) Pertaining to a grammatical agent that performs the action of the verb.
AGENTIVE, noun. (linguistics) A word having this construction.
AGENTIVE NOMINALISATION, noun. (grammar) A construction whereby an action verb is made into an agent noun.
AGENTIVE NOMINALIZATION, noun. American spelling and Oxford British spelling standard spelling of agentive nominalisation.
Wise words
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and
principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles
of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even
the interpretation and use of words involves a process of
free creation.