benefactive

[ben-uh-fak-tiv]

adjective

of or pertaining to a linguistic form, case, or semantic role that denotes the person or persons for whom an action is performed, as for his son in He opened the door for his son.

noun

a benefactive form or case.

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the spoken form a word has when produced in isolation, such as for illustration, as distinguished from the form it would have when produced in the normal stream of speech

the study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language

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Origin:
1940–45; < Latin benefact(um) benefit, good deed (noun use of neuter of benefactus; see benefaction) + -ive

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