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agentive role vs semantic role

semantic role vs agentive role

agentive role and semantic role both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
agentive role Yes No No No
semantic role Yes No No No
As nouns, semantic role is a hypernym of agentive role; that is, semantic 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
  • semantic role: (linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause
Other hypernyms of agentive role include participant role.
agentive role (noun) semantic 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 semantic role

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