Animacy
Animacy Animacy is a grammatical category, usually of nouns ... it is associated with that noun. Usually, animacy has to do with how alive or ... In general, personal pronouns have the highest animacy, the first-person being the highest among ... of the people whose language possesses an animacy hierarchy, deities, spirits, or certain types ...
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Apache (language)   (translated from German)
... Chinese or Thai). yi/bi Age nation (Animacy) Like most Athabaskan LANGUAGES, Southern Athabaskan LANGUAGES show various level OF animacy in its grammar, with certain nouns taking ... form according tons their climb in this animacy hierarchy. For instance, Navajo nouns CAN ranked by animacy on A continuum from most animate (A ... sentence in A noun with more lesser animacy occurs second. If both nouns acres ...
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Southern Athabascan languages
... in Chinese or Thai). yi-/bi- Alternation (Animacy) Like most Athabaskan languages, Southern Athabaskan languages show various levels of animacy in its grammar, with certain nouns taking ... forms according to their rank in this animacy hierarchy. For instance, Navajo nouns can be ranked by animacy on a continuum from most animate (a ... occur first while the noun with lesser animacy occurs second. If both nouns are ...
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Navajo language
... round object) moves independently. yi-/bi- Alternation (animacy) Like most Athabaskan languages, Southern Athabaskan languages show various levels of animacy in its grammar, with certain nouns taking ... forms according to their rank in this animacy hierarchy. For instance, Navajo nouns can be ranked by animacy on a continuum from most animate (a ... occur first while the noun with lesser animacy occurs second. If both nouns are ...
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Direct-inverse language
... to the position of each on the animacy hierarchy, similar to the way that Indo ... of the arguments as given by their animacy is marked on the verb, giving flexibility ... verbs or nouns depending on the relative animacy and order of its arguments. The direct ... higher obviation status (i.e. topicality) or animacy, including person hierarchy, e.g. 1st > 2nd ...
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Ojibwe grammar
... not only information on the subject (their animacy, person, and plurality), but also on the ... is listened to" Nouns Nouns distinguish plurality, animacy, obviation, and case with suffixes. Animacy is only overtly marked on plural nouns ...
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Talk:Tamil language/Archive0
... Hippietrail 11:48, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC) animacy? Hi. Provide an example of animacy? - Ish ishwar 22:24, 2005 Jan 25 ...
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Split ergativity
... be explained in terms of the high animacy of a first or second person speaker in the animacy hierarchy. The use of certain tenses and ...
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Chinese pronouns
... third-person pronouns, and no distinction for animacy in the third-person either. In fact ... with the West and its gender- and animacy-indicating pronouns. (Even now, it is not ...
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Grammatical gender
... Athabaskan) nouns are classified according to their animacy, shape, and consistency. Morphologically, however, the distinctions ... verb stems that classify nouns according to animacy, shape, and consistency. However, in addition these ...
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