In
linguistics, an agent noun (in
Latin, nomen agentis) 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
verbdrive.[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).
Hungarian: no specific agentive suffix, the
nominalization of
present participle (suffix: -ó/-ő, according to
vowel harmony) is used instead; examples: dolgozó ('worker'), szerelő ('repairman'), vezető ('leader', 'driver', 'electrical conductor')
Persian: ـنده (-ande): from present roots; as in گوینده (gūyande; 'speaker') from گفتن، گوی- (goftan, gūy-; to speak) / ـار (-ār) : from past roots; as in خواستار (xwāstār; 'wanter') from خواستن، خواه- (xwāstan, xwāh-; 'to want'). / ـگر (-gar): from nouns; as in کارگر (kārgar; 'worker') from کار (kār; 'work').[5]
^"agent noun". Oxford Learner's Dictionaries. Retrieved December 11, 2014.
^Panther, Klaus-Uwe; Thornburg, Linda L.; Barcelona, Antonio (2009). Metonymy and metaphor in grammar. Vol. 25. John Benjamins Publishing Company. p. 101.
ISBN978-90-272-2379-1.
^Aronson, Howard I. (1990). Georgian: A Reading Grammar. Corrected edition. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers. pp. 119–120.
^Delvaux, Martine; Melançon, Benoit (2019-08-21).
"Pour ou contre le mot « autrice » ?" [For or against the word "author"?]. Radio-Canada (in French). Québec. Retrieved 2024-03-20. See also
wikt:fr:-eure.