| 释义 |
agentive, a. and n. Gram.|eɪˈdʒɛntɪv|
[f. agent n. + -ive.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to a noun or suffix that indicates an agent or agency; also applied to certain verbal cases in some languages.
1903Amer. Anthropologist Jan.–Mar. 26 Syntactical Cases and Appositions [in native languages of California]. Agentive, Subjunctive, Objective, Possessive. 1921E. Sapir Lang. v. 87 The word farmer has an ‘agentive’ suffix -er that performs the function of indicating the one that carries out a given activity, in this case that of farming. 1941E. A. Speiser Introd. Hurrian v. 211 Even the agentive verb is always in included position unless accompanied by the proper associative element. 1964J. Vachek in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 194 His suggestion that the morpheme /-ə/ forming the comparatives contrasts with the ‘agentive’ /-ə/.
B. n. An agentive noun or suffix; an agentive case.
1925E. Sapir in Language I. 49 As Prof. L. Bloomfield points out to me, the agentive -er contrasts with the comparative -er, which allows the adjective to keep its radical form in -ŋg (e.g., long with -ŋ: longer with -ŋg). 1965[see imperfective n. 2]. 1968C. J. Fillmore in Bach & Harms Universals in Linguistic Theory 24 The cases that appear to be needed include: Agentive (A), the case of the typically animate perceived instigator of the action identified by the verb. 1972L. R. Palmer Descr. & Compar. Ling. vii. 143 Much the same is true of the insertion of by before NP, for this is nothing more than an instruction on how to form the agentive. 1983D. L. Gold in Comments on Etymology XII. ix. & x. 37, -ler is a suffix used to form agentives from nouns, e.g., indler ‘surfer’, based on the Yiddish noun ind. |