HyperDic: agentive_role

English > 1 sense of the expression agentive role:
NOUNcommunicationagentive role, agentthe semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
English > agentive role: 1 sense > noun 1, communication
MeaningThe semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause.
Synonymagent
Broadersemantic role, participant role(linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause
Catalanagent

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