#agentive

And that’s one, right up there. So’s the one preceding this. Not all passive sentences use passive voice. However, the common thread is reversal of the expected grammatical order, placing the object of the verb as the subject of the sentence. It’s less visible—and somewhat inside out—with the expletive construction, also called agentless construction, but it’s still there. I’ve written about…

Interesting talk about agentive technologies from Interaction 16 conference:

Agentive technologies are products which do something for you. e.g. the Roomba vacuum cleaner robot cleans for you.

Especially this slide is interesting which shows the new interaction model for agentive technologies.

mkhan - specialist, expert, one who has to do with a thing, "agentive" particle, future particle [JV]

mkhan - - part or agentive suffix attached to nouns and verbs the doer, agent, performer of an act, (vb + --) the 1 who does the verbal action, proficiency, skill, skillful, {mkhan po} knower [IW]

mkhan - 1) or agentive suffix attached to nouns and verbs. the doer, agent, performer of an act, [vb. + mkhan) the one who does the verbal action, agent (responsible for). 2) proficiency, skill, skillful. 3) abbr. of {mkhan po} 4) knower [RY]

pa - 1) male agentive particle; 2) person/ male from ... country; 3) nominalizing particle for verbs, -ing [all finals except ng, ' l r]; 4) past tense particle; 5) PA. [R] (6) ordinal #)/ [R] [IW]

pa - ah, oh, bdag po'i sgra (particle expressive of ownership or possession), affixed to many words from custom, often changed to ba after vowel or nga, la or ra, sign of infinitive and participle, often used for finite tense and for par, person who deals with whatever, inhabitants of a place, ordinal numeral, peculiarity of dialects, distinguish different meanings, used mistakenly for pa'i or ba'i, =don dam pa or fallaciousness, rain, agentive particle, part of past complement, in nominalized constructions [JV]

pa - 1) male agentive particle; 2) person/ male from ... country; 3) nominalizing particle for verbs, -ing; 4) past tense particle; 5) PA.; 6) ordinal # [IW]

pa - 1) agentive particle; 2) person from ... country; 3) nominalizing particle; 4) past tense particle; 5) PA. [bod yig gsal byed bcu gsum pa 'di'i nga ro 'don tsul la skye gnas mchu dang, byed pa mchu, nang gi rtsol ba mchu gnyis phrad pa dang, phyi'i rtsol ba srog chung sgra med] 1) Ming gzhi'i pho yig cig; 2) male bdag po'i sgra zhig Rta pa,...Bod pa; 3) Ming mtha' zhig [Ga da na ba ma sa...Da drag ...Nga...Phyin pa,...Shes pa,...Rkang pa,...Skyob pa,...Rgyag pa,...Gnod pa,...Dam pa]; 4) ordinal # [gsum pa] [IW]

pa - 1) agentive particle. 2) person from a country. 3) nominalizing particle. 4) past tense particle [RY]

po - 1) agentive particle. 2) masculine particle. 3) adjectival particle. 4) collective particle [with numbers] [RY]

po - 1) agentive/ masculine/ noun/ adjectival particle, -er; 2) -th (w # [IW]

byed sgra - A term of grammar. Agentive term. The third case [RY]

grendel's is awesome! (also the new IDs are kinda ugly). but yay, welcome!