Re: Terminology query
| From: | Kit La Touche <kit@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 24, 2006, 15:16 |
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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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