| 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 |
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| Meaning | The semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause. | |
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| Synonym | agent | |
| Broader | semantic role, participant role | (linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause |
| Catalan | agent | |
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