Dec 2, 2005 01:21
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Spanish term

agentividad

Spanish to English Other Linguistics
Describing a category of verbs: "...los verbos asociados a no agentividad y a la ausencia de acción..."
Proposed translations (English)
3 +4 Agentivity

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Agentivity

Agentivity and Suffix Selection
action or the result of an action have been derived from verbs. ... The degree
of agentivity of the first argument of the base verb determines the ...
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/6/lfg01kelling.pdf

Eventualities, Grammar, and Language Diversity
One set of prefixes for subjects is used with action verbs, ... sense: differences
of predicates with respect to such notions as control or agentivity. ...
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~ebach/papers/utruni.htm
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