Animacy (antonym: inanimacy) is a grammatical and semantic feature, existing in some languages, expressing how sentient or alive the referent of a noun...

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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that since there is no consistent semantic system for determining the animacy of a noun, that it must be a purely linguistic characterization. Anthropological...

and plural; and two animacy classes: animate (common), and inanimate (neuter). Adjectives and pronouns agree with nouns for animacy, number, and case....

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...

markers that can appear throughout the word, depending again on emphasis; animacy in particular can appear fluidly throughout verbs. In short, while a few...

declension of the nominal phrase in the locative cases differs depending on the animacy of the referent; a different and unrelated masculine/feminine distinction...

respectively, regardless of animacy, meaning "him", "her", or "it"), and le for indirect objects (regardless of gender or animacy, meaning "to him", "to her"...

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...