This morpheme is a canonical causative that adds an agentive causer to an event and is compatible with almost any verb in the language.
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Its characteristic feature, unlike Hindi, is the presence or absence of agentive marker in perfect, depending on the nature of accusative marker.
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Other constituents of a sentence, such as dative, comitative, agentive, and adverbial phrases, tend to come first in the sentence.
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It was changed in the English translation because the pronunciation of the original name is similar to that of the agentive form of an English expletive.
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If the language has case, the arguments of a transitive verb are marked by using the agentive case for the subject and the patientive case for the object.
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First of all, in the three cases described by Golla, O [ the undergoer ] is neither controlling nor agentive; O is largely patientive in all cases.
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Enrico ( 2003 ) argues that the agentive case indicates planning; thus Haida is essentially an active stative language, though subject case is also variable in some transitive verbs.
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Clearly in this phrase / p?t?ihe / is no longer functioning as a VP in the passive construction, as it cannot take an agentive adjunct ( by John ).
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The Tlingit agentive suffix has a similar meaning to the English agentive suffix "-er ", as in the words writer , speaker , seller .
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The Tlingit agentive suffix has a similar meaning to the English agentive suffix "-er ", as in the words writer , speaker , seller .
