Agentive verbs

[kuzar at research.haifa.ac.il]

I believe this is the right forum for this question:
Is it an empirically confirmed fact that agentive verbs constitute the majority
of verbs in (a particular?) language? By "agentive verbs" I mean verbs that
require a human subject exercising volition/intention in performing the action
of the verb.
Any statistics?
Ron Kuzar
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