Agent noun

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Template:Short description Template:Confused In linguistics, an agent noun (in Latin, Script error: No such module "Lang".) is a word that is derived from another word denoting an action, and that identifies an entity that does that action.[1] For example, driver is an agent noun formed from the verb drive.[2]

Usually, derived in the above definition has the strict sense attached to it in morphology, that is the derivation takes as an input a lexeme (an abstract unit of morphological analysis) and produces a new lexeme. However, the classification of morphemes into derivational morphemes (see word formation) and inflectional ones is not generally a straightforward theoretical question, and different authors can make different decisions as to the general theoretical principles of the classification as well as to the actual classification of morphemes presented in a grammar of some language (for example, of the agent noun-forming morpheme).

Words related to agent noun

Polish agental suffixes
Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "Lang". 'to run' Script error: No such module "Lang". 'runner'
Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "Lang". 'to write' Script error: No such module "Lang". 'writer'
Script error: No such module "Lang". †Script error: No such module "Lang". 'to cut' Script error: No such module "Lang". 'tailor'
Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "Lang". 'to give' Script error: No such module "Lang". 'giver'
Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "Lang". 'to write' Script error: No such module "Lang". 'marker' (pen)
Script error: No such module "Lang". 'to jump' Script error: No such module "Lang". 'jumper'
Script error: No such module "Lang". 'to walk' Script error: No such module "Lang". 'walker' (walking aid)
Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "Lang". 'to carry' Script error: No such module "Lang". 'carrier'
Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "Lang". 'to work' Script error: No such module "Lang". 'worker'
Script error: No such module "Lang". 'to do' 'to work'
Script error: No such module "Lang". 'work' 		Script error: No such module "Lang". 'worker'
Script error: No such module "Lang". 'to orate' 'to moralize'
Script error: No such module "Lang". 'law'
Script error: No such module "Lang". 'right' 'righteous' 		Script error: No such module "Lang". 'lawyer'
Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "Lang". 'forest'
Script error: No such module "Lang". 'forester' 		Script error: No such module "Lang". 'forester'

An agentive suffix or agentive prefix is commonly used to form an agent noun from a verb. Examples:

  • English: -er, -or, -ian, -ist
  • Basque: Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang". 'student' from Script error: No such module "Lang". 'learn')
  • Chinese: Template:Lang-zh
  • Coptic: Script error: No such module "Lang"., as in ⲣⲉϥⲙⲉⲓ (refmei 'loving person') from ⲙⲉⲓ (mei 'to love')
  • Dutch: Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang".
  • Finnish: Script error: No such module "Lang"./Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang". 'speak', Script error: No such module "Lang". 'speaker'; Script error: No such module "Lang". 'hit', Script error: No such module "Lang". 'hitter'); Script error: No such module "Lang". (borrowed from '-or'/'er', probably via German)
  • French: Script error: No such module "Lang". (m.); Script error: No such module "Lang".,[3] Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang". (f.)
  • Georgian: Script error: No such module "Lang".- ... -Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang".), as in Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang". 'gardener') from Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang". 'garden'); otherwise the nominalization of the present participle (formed with many possible circumfixes) may occur.[4]
  • German: Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang". (may be compounded with the feminine ending Script error: No such module "Lang".)
  • Greek: Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang".
  • Hungarian: no specific agentive suffix, the nominalization of present participle (suffix: Script error: No such module "Lang"., according to vowel harmony) is used instead; examples: Script error: No such module "Lang". ('worker'), Script error: No such module "Lang". ('repairman'), Script error: No such module "Lang". ('leader', 'driver', 'electrical conductor')
  • Irish: -óir (broad), -eoir (slender), -aí (broad), -í (slender)
  • Khasi: prefix Script error: No such module "Lang". or Script error: No such module "Lang"., for example Script error: No such module "Lang". 'to dance', Script error: No such module "Lang". 'dancer'; Script error: No such module "Lang". 'to steal', Script error: No such module "Lang". 'thief'
  • Latin: Script error: No such module "Lang". (m.) / Script error: No such module "Lang". (f.) / Script error: No such module "Lang". (n.) / Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang". (adj.) as in Script error: No such module "Lang". / Script error: No such module "Lang". / Script error: No such module "Lang". / Script error: No such module "Lang".; Script error: No such module "Lang". (m.) / Script error: No such module "Lang". (f.) / Script error: No such module "Lang". (n.) / Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang". (adj.) as in Script error: No such module "Lang". / Script error: No such module "Lang". / Script error: No such module "Lang". / Script error: No such module "Lang".; see also: Script error: No such module "Lang".
  • Maori: Script error: No such module "Lang".
  • Persian: Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang".): from present roots; as in Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang".; 'speaker') from Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang".; to speak) / Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang".) : from past roots; as in Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang".; 'wanter') from Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang".; 'to want'). / Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang".): from nouns; as in Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang".; 'worker') from Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang".; 'work').[5]
  • Polish: see table
  • Quechua: Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang". 'to play', Script error: No such module "Lang". 'player')
  • Russian: Script error: No such module "Lang". or Script error: No such module "Lang". (m.) / Script error: No such module "Lang". or Script error: No such module "Lang". (f.) as in Script error: No such module "Lang". 'student'; Script error: No such module "Lang". (m.) / Script error: No such module "Lang". (f.) as in Script error: No such module "Lang". 'teacher'[6]
  • Spanish: Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang".
  • Turkish: Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang". 'florist' from Script error: No such module "Lang". 'flower')
  • Welsh: Script error: No such module "Lang". (m.), Script error: No such module "Lang". (f.)

See also

References

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External links

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Further reading

  • Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang". ("Protoslavic Nomen Agentis"), Wrocław, 1975

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  1. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  2. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  3. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". See also wikt:fr:-eure.
  4. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  5. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  6. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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