agentive role

Definitions of agentive role
  1. noun
    the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
    synonyms: agent
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    type of:
    participant role, semantic role
    (linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause
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