Re: Terminology query

The theta roles are about parts of a sentence and their relation; I
think Mark asked about derivational morphology, i.e. if someone
carves, he is a carver. I found the expression "agentive nominaliser"
for this, and, to refer to Wikipedia again, there is some info on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agentive .

Cheers,

Christian

>calling the agent is perfectly respectable; you may wish to look up
>theta-roles, if you're not familiar with them.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theta_role
>
>kit
>
>On Feb 24, 2006, at 8:43 AM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>>Is there a standard grammatical term for the "doer" form of a verb,
>>such as English -er/-or or Spanish -dor?  I've been calling it the
>>"agentive", which may be perfectly cromulent, but if there's a
>>standard term I'd rather use it.
>>
>>Thanks!
>>--
>>Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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