Animacy (antonym: inanimacy) is a grammatical and semantic feature, existing in some languages, expressing how sentient or alive the referent of a noun...
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Blackfoot language (section Animacy)
e. animacy and number (nouns) or person and number (verbs) are indicated within the same affix. All nouns are required to be inflected for animacy and...
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Computer Russification Morse code Braille Features Grammar Declension Animacy Reduplication Phonology Vowel reduction Literature Pushkin House Formalism...
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Menominee language (section Animacy)
fusional, e.g. animacy and number (nouns), are indicated within the same affix. All nouns are split into two categories and are inflected for animacy and are...
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markers that can appear throughout the word, depending again on emphasis; animacy in particular can appear fluidly throughout verbs. In short, while a few...
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subjects of transitive verbs and intransitive verbs. The definiteness and animacy scale of differential subject marking has the same hierarchical structure...
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declension of the nominal phrase in the locative cases differs depending on the animacy of the referent; a different and unrelated masculine/feminine distinction...
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that since there is no consistent semantic system for determining the animacy of a noun, that it must be a purely linguistic characterization. Anthropological...
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respectively, regardless of animacy, meaning "him", "her", or "it"), and le for indirect objects (regardless of gender or animacy, meaning "to him", "to her"...
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Navajo grammar (section yi-/bi- Alternation (animacy))
sentence must occur first while the noun with lesser animacy occurs second. If both nouns are equal in animacy, then either noun can occur in the first position...
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Arapaho language (section Animacy)
singular. Verbs are divided into classes depending on the transitivity and animacy of their argument(s). Transitivity of a verb affects how many arguments...
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and plural; and two animacy classes: animate (common), and inanimate (neuter). Adjectives and pronouns agree with nouns for animacy, number, and case....
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biological sex (which is the most common basis for grammatical gender), animacy, or other features, and may be based on a combination of these classes...
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Grammatical features Related to nouns Animacy Case Dative construction Dative shift Quirky subject Nominative Comitative Instrumental Classifier Measure...
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Eastern Armenian Which case the direct object takes is split based on animacy (a phenomenon more generally known as differential object marking). Inanimate...
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Causative (section Animacy of the object)
In linguistics, a causative (abbreviated CAUS) is a valency-increasing operation that indicates that a subject either causes someone or something else...
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like one of Daedalus's "moving" statues, is inherently valuable, their animacy would mean they are worthless if the owner cannot shackle them in place...
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that noun's meaning, or attributes, like biological sex, humanness, or animacy. However, the existence of words that denote male and female, such as the...
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English nouns (section Gender and animacy)
English nouns form the largest category of words in English, both in the number of different words and how often they are used in typical texts. The three...
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language, such as in Nairobi. In non-native Swahili, concord reflects only animacy: human subjects and objects trigger a-, wa- and m-, wa- in verbal concord...
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pattern for each noun being inflected depends on the noun's degree of animacy. When a definite article such as -টা -ṭa (singular) or -গুলো -gulo (plural)...
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main features marked on Sinhala nouns are case, number, definiteness and animacy. Sinhala distinguishes several cases. The five primary cases are the nominative...
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emerges from a complicated interaction of factors such as referentiality, animacy and topicality. Mongolian also exhibits a specific type of differential...
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categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, and definiteness. The inflection of verbs is called conjugation, while...
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categories and their features Noun Abstract / Concrete Adjectival Agent Animacy Bare Collective Countable Initial-stress-derived Mass Noun adjunct Proper...
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купи́ть э́то в магази́не" ("You can buy this in the shop"). The category of animacy is relevant in Russian nominal and adjectival declension. Specifically...
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frames over a finite period. Animate may also refer to: Animate noun or animacy, a grammatical category Animate (retailer), a Japanese anime retailer "Animate"...
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contexts, called split ergativity. The split may sometimes be linked to animacy, as in many Australian Aboriginal languages, or to aspect, as in Hindustani...
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show various levels of animacy in its grammar, with certain nouns taking specific verb forms according to their rank in this animacy hierarchy. For instance...
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