<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’ve heard Mark Donohue use “agentive” /əˈdʒɛntɪv/ and “patientive” /pəˈʃjɛntɪv/.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Siva<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 12 May 2021, at 8:24 pm, Christian Lehmann <<a href="mailto:christian.lehmann@uni-erfurt.de" class="">christian.lehmann@uni-erfurt.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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The only or direct actant of an intransitive verb may be its actor (<i class="">run</i>)
or its undergoer (<i class="">die</i>). This may be taken to be a feature of
the verb's valency. There are then two valency classes of
intransitive verbs. I know of the following terms for these:<br class="">
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active - inactive (Klimov)<br class="">
agentive - non-agentive<br class="">
unergative - unaccusative (Perlmutter)<br class="">
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All of these pairs have terminological or conceptual problems (which
I can name if desired). I have therefore been looking for better
terms. I had called them<br class="">
actor-oriented - undergoer-oriented.<br class="">
However, I need the term 'oriented' in verbal grammar in a different
sense, so I have to replace these. Currently, I call them<br class="">
actor-holding - undergoer-holding<br class="">
Not particularly elegant, are they?<br class="">
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Are there good terms on the linguistic market (of the past two
centuries) for what is meant by the above? Or failing this,
brilliant neologisms?<br class="">
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Grateful for suggestions,<br class="">
Christian<br class="">
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