adjective
- of, relating to, or designating a grammatical case or form that expresses the agent or doer of an action
Usage: linguistics; rare in modern English; primarily used in descriptions of non-Indo-European languages
Examples
- In some languages, the personative case marks the subject performing an action.
- Linguists studying Finno-Ugric languages often encounter personative morphology.
- The personative form distinguishes the active agent from other grammatical roles.