agentivityn.

1973 Jrnl. Linguistics 79 12 Although agentivity is assigned to the verb, agentive verbs are defined by the referential properties of their subject nouns.

1987 Word 38 2 By is an ordinary preposition with a dictionary meaning of agentivity, participating in an ordinary prepositional phrase.

1990 Lang. in Society 19 261 If, in the transmissions of material from the SL [= source language] to the RL [= recipient language], that is, in SL→RL, the RL speaker is the agent, the action is borrowing or what I call RL agentivity.

2007 Russ. Linguistics 31 166 The role of animacy and agentivity in the acquisition of case-marking has been long recognized and considered.