单词 | actor-action |
释义 | > as lemmasactor-action actor-action adj. Grammar of or designating a type of construction in which the subject precedes the verb; cf. sense 3b. ΚΠ 1911 J. Anderson Gram. of Case ix. 140 Accounts of transitivity conducted in terms of ‘actor-action-patient’.] 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. xi. 172 Quite a few of the present-day Indo-European languages agree with English in using an actor-action form as a favorite sentence-type. 1996 J. Aitchison Seeds of Speech (2000) ix. 120 An actor-action order is overwhelmingly more common than action-actor as a major sentence pattern in the languages of the world. < as lemmas |
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