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agentive nominalisation

agentive nominalisation noun: a construction whereby an action verb is made into an agent noun.

Noun

agentive nominalisation (countable and uncountable, plural agentive nominalisations)

  1. A construction whereby an action verb is made into an agent noun.

Forms of agentive nominalisation

pluralagentive nominalisations
alternative formagentive nominalization

Questions about agentive nominalisation

What does agentive nominalisation mean?
Agentive nominalisation means a construction whereby an action verb is made into an agent noun.
What part of speech is agentive nominalisation?
Agentive nominalisation is a noun.
What is the plural of agentive nominalisation?
The plural of agentive nominalisation is agentive nominalisations.

Words near agentive nominalisation in the dictionary

  1. agenticity
  2. agentification
  3. agenting
  4. agentival
  5. agentive
  6. agentive nominalisation
  7. agentive nominalisations
  8. agentive nominalization
  9. agentive nominalizations
  10. agentively
  11. agentiveness

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