For example, in:
Tom pruned the roses.
Tomis in the agentive case.
But the subject of the verb is not necessarily always in the agentive case. In
the sentence:
Tom loves roses.
Tomdoes not perform an action, but his attitude to roses is mentioned.
Tom in this sentence is therefore not agentive but dative (see dative
case^2 ).
see also case grammaragentive object n
the object of a verb which itself performs the action of the verb.
For example, in the sentence:
Fred galloped the horse.
Fred initiates the action, but it is the horsewhich actually gallops.
see also agent,agentive case
agent 9 -role n
see under q-theory/theta theory
agglutinating language n
also agglutinative language
a language in which various affixes may be added to the stem of a word to
add to its meaning or to show its grammatical function.
For example, in Swahili wametulipa “they have paid us” consists of:
wa me tu lipa
they +perfective marker +us +pay
Languages which are highly agglutinating include Finnish, Hungarian,
Swahili, and Turkish, although there is no clear-cut distinction between
agglutinating languages, inflecting languages, and isolating
languages.
Sometimes agglutinating languages and inflecting languages are called
synthetic languages.
AGR n
see agreement
agrammatism n
see aphasia
agraphia n
see aphasia
agraphia