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agentive role vs participant role

participant role vs agentive role

agentive role and participant role both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
agentive role Yes No No No
participant role Yes No No No
As nouns, participant role is a hypernym of agentive role; that is, participant role is a word with a broader meaning than agentive role:
  • agentive role: the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
  • participant role: (linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause
Other hypernyms of agentive role include semantic role.
agentive role (noun) participant role (noun)
the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause (linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause
Difference between agentive role and participant role

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