actantn.

Brit.

/ˈakt(ə)nt/, U.S.

/ˈæk(t)nt/

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French actant.

Etymology: < French actant (L. Tesnière Esquisse d'une syntaxe structurale (1953) 4 in sense 1; A. J. Greimas Sémantique Structurale (1966) 128 in sense 2) < act- (in action action n.) + -ant -ant suffix¹. Compare German Aktant (1971 or earlier in grammar).

1. Grammar. A noun or noun phrase involved in the action expressed by a verb.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > noun > [noun] > other specific types of noun

increaser1612

regulara1637

energizer1751

agent noun1782

nomen actionis1820

segolate1831

class noun1849

patrial1854

nomen agentis1859

metaplast1864

agent word1879

post-genitive1922

conversion-noun1928

noun adjective1930

head noun1933

relatum1933

actant1967

class name1994

1967 O. S. Kulagina & I. A. Mel'ĉuk in A. D. Booth Machine Transl. v. 161 A circostant separates the predicate group and one of the actants.

1973 Oceanic Linguistics 12 584 With tanumia, the lone actant, semantically an object, nevertheless appears nominalized as a dominant possessive.

2005 G. Lazard in Z. Frajzyngier et al. Ling. Diversity & Lang. Theories i. 12 In many languages, the actant called the subject is characterised by a number of specific morphosyntactic properties.

2. Literary Theory. Any of various narrative roles or functions which may be fulfilled by one or more characters or other entities in a text.

ΚΠ

1968 Yale French Stud. No. 41. 105 [Discursive structures] impose the choice of certain operations, like the playing of rôles (contents of the actants), and of ‘archifunctions’ (contents of the functions).

1979 F. Jameson Fables of Aggression ii. 44 Such an entity as this room has clearly become a momentary actant, a surrogate for the heroine herself.

2002 P. Larsen in K. B. Jensen Handbk. Media & Communications Res. viii. 127/2 There is no one-to-one relationship between characters and actants... The same character can have various functions in the narrative, and may therefore fill several actant positions.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	actant
释义	actantn. Brit. /ˈakt(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈæk(t)nt/ Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French actant. Etymology: < French actant (L. Tesnière Esquisse d'une syntaxe structurale (1953) 4 in sense 1; A. J. Greimas Sémantique Structurale (1966) 128 in sense 2) < act- (in action action n.) + -ant -ant suffix¹. Compare German Aktant (1971 or earlier in grammar). 1. Grammar. A noun or noun phrase involved in the action expressed by a verb. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > noun > [noun] > other specific types of noun increaser1612 regulara1637 energizer1751 agent noun1782 nomen actionis1820 segolate1831 class noun1849 patrial1854 nomen agentis1859 metaplast1864 agent word1879 post-genitive1922 conversion-noun1928 noun adjective1930 head noun1933 relatum1933 actant1967 class name1994 1967 O. S. Kulagina & I. A. Mel'ĉuk in A. D. Booth Machine Transl. v. 161 A circostant separates the predicate group and one of the actants. 1973 Oceanic Linguistics 12 584 With tanumia, the lone actant, semantically an object, nevertheless appears nominalized as a dominant possessive. 2005 G. Lazard in Z. Frajzyngier et al. Ling. Diversity & Lang. Theories i. 12 In many languages, the actant called the subject is characterised by a number of specific morphosyntactic properties. 2. Literary Theory. Any of various narrative roles or functions which may be fulfilled by one or more characters or other entities in a text. ΚΠ 1968 Yale French Stud. No. 41. 105 [Discursive structures] impose the choice of certain operations, like the playing of rôles (contents of the actants), and of ‘archifunctions’ (contents of the functions). 1979 F. Jameson Fables of Aggression ii. 44 Such an entity as this room has clearly become a momentary actant, a surrogate for the heroine herself. 2002 P. Larsen in K. B. Jensen Handbk. Media & Communications Res. viii. 127/2 There is no one-to-one relationship between characters and actants... The same character can have various functions in the narrative, and may therefore fill several actant positions. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1967
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