• 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • Kēlen (section Animacy)
    which indefinite is used depends upon number and animacy. Kēlen makes extensive use of a system of animacy, with a set of mandatory prefixes on all noun...
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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • because of the characteristic features of its referent, such as gender, animacy, shape, but such designations are often clearly conventional. Some authors...
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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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  • 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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    menee he menevät se menee ne menee "he/she goes" "they go" loss of an animacy contrast in pronouns (ne and se are inanimate in the formal language),...
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  • grouping transitive and intransitive verbs. They are case marking, theme animacy, and planning, as indicated by the appropriate use of verb suffixes denoting...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • that noun's meaning (or attributes, like biological sex, humanness, or animacy). However, the existence of words that denote male and female, such as...
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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 and their features Noun Abstract / Concrete Adjectival Agent Animacy Bare Collective Countable Initial-stress-derived Mass Noun adjunct Proper...
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  • In linguistics, a relativizer (abbreviated RELZ) is a type of conjunction that introduces a relative clause. For example, in English, the conjunction that...
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    transitivity, valency, polarity, telicity, volition, mirativity, evidentiality, animacy, associativity, pluractionality, and reciprocity. Verbs may also be affected...
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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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  • corpus study into word order variation in German subordinate clauses: Animacy affects linearization independently of grammatical function assignment"...
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    primary (used for focused or high animacy nominative arguments), neutral (for low animacy nominative arguments and high animacy accusative ones), and focus...
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