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participant role vs agentive role

agentive role vs participant role

participant role and agentive role both are nouns.

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

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