"agentive role" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a noun or pronoun in a sentence that is actively performing an action or causing something to happen. It can be used when describing the syntactic structure of a sentence, or when discussing the roles and functions of different words in a sentence. Example: In the sentence "The dog chased the cat," "dog" is the agentive role as it is actively performing the action of chasing the cat.
Tenor: Social Hierarchy, Agentive Role, Social Distance.
A more dynamic and agentive role is apparently involved in the inchoative or eventive version.
Agentive role: it expresses factors involved in the origin or 'bringing about' of an object (how it came into being).
Their agentive role is 'quasi permanent'; that is to say, the likelihood is strong that they regularly interact in a specifiable capacity (here postulated as employer-employee).
Overall, the study showed the importance of the agentive role students play in negotiating through the grant genre system during their transition from the coursework to the dissertation stage of their graduate training.
It happens that Mandarin has gone a step further to encode a clear distinction between the two subject roles with lexical-constructional variations to profile an agentive role, the Affector, which adds a higher volitional force to the underlying causative role of an instigator.
The semantic distinction, as mentioned previously, is referred to by Jackendoff (1991 140) as the stative vs. eventive distinction on Stimulus-subject verbs, and noted in Levin (1993: 191) as agentive vs. non-agentive role distinction.
This supports the postulation of an agentive subject role (the Affector), accompanied with a patient-like object role (the Affectee).
Notice that, in Cimiano and Wenderoth's work, both argument structure and the predication of the verbs in the agentive and telic roles, which have an important place in Pustejovsky's [11] semantic theory, are neglected.
Being social, some relation is implied between the doers even if just that arising from doing something together (c.f., 'agentive role' , and 'social distance' , Hasan [1978]): in the nature of things each participant is socially positioned (Bernstein [1990]); they cannot but be 'related'related
The examples in 17 are both transitive and agentive; the agent of the verb is identical to the addressee of the obligation.
