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
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could
conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly
sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had
this power.