NOUN | communication | agentive role, agent | the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause |
---|
Meaning | The semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause. | |
---|---|---|
Synonym | agent | |
Broader | semantic role, participant role | (linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause |
Catalan | agent |
©2001-24 · HyperDic hyper-dictionary · Contact