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Grammatical and/or semantic category of nouns
Animacy (antonym: inanimacy) is a grammatical and semantic feature, existing in some languages, expressing how sentient or alive the referent of a noun
Animacy
Algonquian language spoken in North America
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
Blackfoot_language
Linguistic system of noun classification
that noun's meaning, or attributes, like gender identity, humanness, or animacy. However, the existence of words that denote male and female, such as the
Grammatical_gender
Indo-Aryan language of Pakistan
nouns inflect based on animacy, number, and case. The three gender system from Old Indo-Aryan has been replaced with an animacy-based noun classification
Khowar
Extinct Bronze Age Indo-European language
and plural; and two animacy classes: animate (common), and inanimate (neuter). Adjectives and pronouns agree with nouns for animacy, number, and case.
Hittite_language
Oto-Manguean language branch of Mexico
chicken. Chinantecan languages group nouns into one of two genders based on animacy. Animals, humans, and some natural phenomena such as thunder or stars which
Chinantecan_languages
Eastern Algonquian language
grammatical gender, the core concept of animacy is shared across similar languages while the exact connotations animacy has within Miꞌkmaq are unique. Many
Mi'kmaq_language
Plains Algonquian language of North America
singular. Verbs are divided into classes depending on the transitivity and animacy of their argument(s). Transitivity of a verb affects how many arguments
Arapaho_language
Linguistic category of nouns
because of the characteristic features of its referent, such as gender, animacy, shape, but such designations are often clearly conventional. Some authors
Noun_class
Aspect of verb grammar
In linguistics, a causative (abbreviated caus) is a valency-increasing operation that indicates that a subject either causes someone or something else
Causative
Constructed language created in 1998
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
Kēlen
Romance language
respectively, regardless of animacy, meaning "him", "her", or "it"), and le for indirect objects (regardless of gender or animacy, meaning "to him", "to her"
Spanish_language
Grammatical indication of whether an action was intentional or not
grouping transitive and intransitive verbs. They are case marking, theme animacy, and planning, as indicated by the appropriate use of verb suffixes denoting
Volition_(linguistics)
Part of speech
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
English_nouns
Inflection in the Russian language
купи́ть э́то в магази́не" ("You can buy this in the shop"). The category of animacy is relevant in Russian nominal and adjectival declension. Specifically
Russian_declension
Grammar of the Navajo language
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
Navajo_grammar
Subfamily of the Algic languages of North America
that since there is no consistent semantic system for determining the animacy of a noun, that it must be a purely linguistic characterization. Anthropological
Algonquian_languages
Yukaghir language of northeastern Russia
primary (used for focused or high animacy nominative arguments), neutral (for low animacy nominative arguments and high animacy accusative ones), and focus
Tundra_Yukaghir_language
Pronoun that is associated with a particular grammatical person
human (and sometimes other animate) referents. Examples of languages with animacy restrictions on free pronouns include Wanyjirra, Bilinarra, Warrongo, Guugu
Personal_pronoun
Subfamily of the Japonic languages
This marker has the unusual feature of changing form depending on an animacy hierarchy. The Ryukyuan languages have topic and focus markers, which may
Ryukyuan_languages
declension of the nominal phrase in the locative cases differs depending on the animacy of the referent; a different and unrelated masculine/feminine distinction
List of languages by type of grammatical genders
List_of_languages_by_type_of_grammatical_genders
Papuan language spoken in Indonesia
ex: o-fon-ari 1SG.SBJ-sit-down o-fon-ari 1SG.SBJ-sit-down ‘I sit down’ Animacy is marked by the adjective modifier n-, as exemplified by the contrast
Mairasi_language
Linguistic syntax feature
reflects two properties that can be understood along decreasing scales: Animacy: human > animate > inanimate Definiteness (or specificity): personal pronoun
Differential_object_marking
Category of words based on shared grammatical properties in a clause
categories and their features Noun Abstract / Concrete Adjectival Agent Animacy Bare Collective Countable Initial-stress-derived Mass Noun adjunct Proper
Part_of_speech
Feature of Polish grammar
but not male animals. They are therefore not to be confused with mere animacy. In Polish, for the word Murzyn that can be translated into English as
Masculine_virile
Process of word formation, by alteration to express grammatical categories
categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, and definiteness. The inflection of verbs is called conjugation, while
Inflection
Topics referred to by the same term
frames over a finite period. Animate may also refer to: Animate noun or animacy, a grammatical category Animate (retailer), a Japanese anime retailer "Animate"
Animate_(disambiguation)
Analysis of sentence structure
Grammatical features Related to nouns Animacy Case Dative construction Dative shift Quirky subject Nominative Comitative Instrumental Classifier Measure
Branching_(linguistics)
Grammar of the Kannada language
nouns are distinguished as human and non-human. This is a feature known as animacy or rationality in Tamil, and is found across other Dravidian languages
Kannada_grammar
Concept in linguistics
In linguistics, a relativizer (abbreviated rel or relz) is a type of conjunction that introduces a relative clause. For example, in English, the conjunction
Relativizer
Reconstructed ancestor of the Afroasiatic language family
existence of an interrogative pronoun *mV, which may not have distinguished animacy. There is some agreement that the PAA verb had two or possibly three basic
Proto-Afroasiatic_language
East Slavic language
Computer Russification Morse code Braille Features Grammar Declension Animacy Reduplication Phonology Vowel reduction Literature Pushkin House Formalism
Russian_language
Type of grammatical construction
Grammatical features Related to nouns Animacy Case Dative construction Dative shift Quirky subject Nominative Comitative Instrumental Classifier Measure
Genitive_construction
subjects of transitive verbs and intransitive verbs. The definiteness and animacy scale of differential subject marking has the same hierarchical structure
Differential_argument_marking
Ojibwe dialect of Canada
Even across different Saulteaux dialects, 'strawberry' fluctuates in its animacy. This may be related to the practice of a "Strawberry Dance" by certain
Western_Ojibwa_language
Indo-Aryan language
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)
Bengali_language
Areal grouping of North American languages
areal features despite a lack of universal common ancestry, including animacy hierarchies and case markers that cliticize to the end of the word before
Pacific_Northwest_languages
Algonquian language
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
Menominee_language
Greek mythological figure
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
Daedalus
Algonquian language spoken in the United States
depending upon the animacy of the subject and the transitivity of the verb itself. Intransitive verbs take endings depending upon the animacy of their subject
Cheyenne_language
Creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection
transitivity, valency, polarity, telicity, volition, mirativity, evidentiality, animacy, associativity, pluractionality, and reciprocity. Verbs may also be affected
Grammatical_conjugation
Munda language of South Asia
arguments in Santali is essentially intertwined with the distinction of animacy of arguments. Distinction between animate/inanimate is not marked on nouns
Santali_language
Grammar of South Athabaskan languages
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
Southern_Athabaskan_grammar
Language family spoken in Mesoamerica
as complex sentences, sentences where object and subject were of equal animacy and when the subject was definite. Today Yucatecan, Tzotzil and Tojolabʼal
Mayan_languages
Aztec deity
were not seen as lifeless effigies but rather beings already imbued with animacy, as their materials contained teotl and the act of their manufacture summons
Teixiptla
Property of items within the grammar of a language
possession, direction, accompaniment etc.). Noun classes, such as gender, animacy, and so on. Number, varying according to the number of things (e.g. singular
Grammatical_category
Indo-European language
Eastern Armenian Which case the direct object takes is split based on animacy (a phenomenon more generally known as differential object marking). Inanimate
Armenian_language
Linguistic comparison
observed that the main parameters that can influence DOM are the traits of animacy, definiteness and topicality. Differential Object Marking is more sensitive
Comparison of Italian and Romanian
Comparison_of_Italian_and_Romanian
Phrase that can be removed, preserving grammatical correctness
Grammatical features Related to nouns Animacy Case Dative construction Dative shift Quirky subject Nominative Comitative Instrumental Classifier Measure
Adjunct_(grammar)
Order of syntactic constituents
Typologically, there is a trend that high-animacy actors are more likely to be topical than low-animacy undergoers; this trend can come through even
Word_order
Algonquian language spoken in Canada
stems) depending on animacy. Intransitive verbs rely on the animacy of their subjects, while transitive verbs rely on the animacy of their objects. There
Swampy_Cree_language
Grammatical number
Grammatical features Related to nouns Animacy Case Dative construction Dative shift Quirky subject Nominative Comitative Instrumental Classifier Measure
Plural
Sociological constructs related to sex
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
Gender
studies. In Animacies, Chen explores the ways in which race, sexuality, and ability are tied to hierarchical concepts of animacy and death. Animacies: Biopolitics
Mel_Y._Chen
in common with other Algonquian languages. Nouns have gender based on animacy, often considered to reflect the traditional worldview of the speakers
Massachusett_grammar
Language family indigenous to the South Caucasus
well. The Kartvelian languages have traces of grammatical gender based on animacy, classifying objects as intelligent ("who"-class) and unintelligent ("what"-class)
Kartvelian_languages
Type of grammatical voice
be a way of avoiding atypical mapping between the relative or absolute animacy level of an argument and its syntactic function. Specifically, they may
Antipassive_voice
Algonquian dialects of Quebec, Canada
verbs, we see that the animacy of the subject matters. However, when we are looking at a transitive verb, we see that the animacy of the object is what
East_Cree
Feature in the typology of certain languages
That can be explained in terms of the high animacy of a first-person or second-person speaker in the animacy hierarchy. The use of certain aspects and/or
Split_ergativity
Pidgin language
AN-fear-3.INAN niin 1SG O-kot-aan niin 3SG.AN-fear-3.INAN 1SG 'He fears me.' Animacy distinctions for nouns were completely lost in Broken Oghibbeway, but are
Broken_Oghibbeway
Historical changes of the Russian language
Computer Russification Morse code Braille Features Grammar Declension Animacy Reduplication Phonology Vowel reduction Literature Pushkin House Formalism
History of the Russian language
History_of_the_Russian_language
Process of identifying causality
the movement of another), causality is inferred from that relationship. Animacy may also be inferred from such relationships. Causal reasoning may be activated
Causal_reasoning
Proposed concept in linguistic typology
person hierarchy, which, in turn, is some combination of saliency and animacy specific to a given language. The direct construction is the unmarked one
Direct–inverse_alignment
Verb that entails a transitive object
corpus study into word order variation in German subordinate clauses: Animacy affects linearization independently of grammatical function assignment"
Transitive_verb
Grammatical relationship between arguments
contexts, called split ergativity. The split may sometimes be linked to animacy, as in many Australian Aboriginal languages, or to aspect, as in Hindustani
Morphosyntactic_alignment
Russian of southwestern Alaska
Computer Russification Morse code Braille Features Grammar Declension Animacy Reduplication Phonology Vowel reduction Literature Pushkin House Formalism
Alaskan_Russian
Finnic language
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),
Finnish_language
Grammatical category for verbs
sort. Their agreement system will be sensitive to an external person or animacy hierarchy (or a combination of both): 1 > 2 > 3 or Anim > Inan and so forth
Voice_(grammar)
Indo-Aryan language of Sri Lanka
main features marked on Sinhala nouns are case, number, definiteness and animacy. Sinhala distinguishes several cases. The five primary cases are the nominative
Sinhala_language
Grammatical construct in which a noun modifies another noun
categories and their features Noun Abstract / Concrete Adjectival Agent Animacy Bare Collective Countable Initial-stress-derived Mass Noun adjunct Proper
Noun_adjunct
Earlier form of the Polish language spoken between the 16th and 18th centuries
Masculine plurals are separated further by animacy, resulting in a more stable system of three levels of animacy, inanimate, animate, and virile. The biggest
Middle_Polish
Indo-Aryan language spoken in India
feminine – are taken by all nouns in Bundeli, indiscriminate of their animacy. Masculine nouns tend to take the a-declension, as do feminine ones, but
Bundeli_language
Subject and predicate in sentences
Grammatical features Related to nouns Animacy Case Dative construction Dative shift Quirky subject Nominative Comitative Instrumental Classifier Measure
Predicate_(grammar)
Bantu language
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
Swahili
Part of speech that conveys an action
categories and their features Noun Abstract / Concrete Adjectival Agent Animacy Bare Collective Countable Initial-stress-derived Mass Noun adjunct Proper
Verb
1992 non-fiction work by Johanna Nichols
classifiers Presence or absence of noun classes (such as grammatical gender or animacy) Presence or absence of grammatical number ("plurality neutralization"
Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time
Linguistic_Diversity_in_Space_and_Time
case - Allomorph - Allophone - Alphabet - Analytic language - Anaphora - Animacy - Anthropological linguistics - Alveolar consonant - Antonym - Aorist -
Index_of_linguistics_articles
Expression of time reference in grammar
Grammatical features Related to nouns Animacy Case Dative construction Dative shift Quirky subject Nominative Comitative Instrumental Classifier Measure
Grammatical_tense
Type of word or affix that is used to accompany nouns
to "classify" a noun depending on some characteristics (e.g. humanness, animacy, sex, shape, social status) of its referent. Classifiers in this sense
Classifier_(linguistics)
Official language of Mongolia
emerges from a complicated interaction of factors such as referentiality, animacy and topicality. Mongolian also exhibits a specific type of differential
Mongolian_language
German-American psychologist
Experimental Study of Apparent Behavior," which explored the experience of animacy. The study showed that subjects presented with a certain display of inanimate
Marianne_Simmel
Words that indicate a question is being asked, as a grammatical category
categories and their features Noun Abstract / Concrete Adjectival Agent Animacy Bare Collective Countable Initial-stress-derived Mass Noun adjunct Proper
Interrogative_word
Part of speech in the Slovene language
This page describes the declension of nouns, adjectives and pronouns in Slovene. For information on Slovene grammar in general, see Slovene grammar. This
Slovene_declension
Return of stolen art to the original owners or heirs
objects are often significant to the Indigenous ontologies possessing animacy and kinship ties. Objects such as particular instruments used in unique
Repatriation (cultural property)
Repatriation_(cultural_property)
Munda language of eastern India
tense-aspect-mood and person, number, finite/infinite, subject/object, possessor, animacy and transitivity. In recent times Koda is code-mixing with Bangla: including
Koda_language
Language spoken by the Omaha and Ponca people
to its definite articles to indicate animacy, number, position and number. Ponca definite articles indicate animacy, position and number. Omaha–Ponca's
Omaha–Ponca_language
купи́ть э́то в магази́не ("You can buy this in the shop"). The category of animacy is relevant in Russian nominal and adjectival declension. Specifically
Russian_grammar
Iroquoian language spoken by the Cherokee people
and plural. It does not make gender distinction, but does distinguish animacy in third person pronouns. Cherokee also makes the distinction between inclusive
Cherokee_language
Linguistic phenomenon
Grammatical features Related to nouns Animacy Case Dative construction Dative shift Quirky subject Nominative Comitative Instrumental Classifier Measure
Quirky_subject
Nearly extinct Algonquian language
a synthetic agglutinative language. Like all Algonquin languages, the animacy of nouns is important to distinguish in Western Abenaki. Animate nouns
Western_Abenaki_language
Grammar of the Pashto language
lose it when attaching the suffixes. The grammatical animacy usually corresponds with physical animacy, but there are some exceptions, like مېړۀ meṛә́ "husband"
Pashto_grammar
Noun or noun phrase whose quantity is discrete and usually an integer
Grammatical features Related to nouns Animacy Case Dative construction Dative shift Quirky subject Nominative Comitative Instrumental Classifier Measure
Count_noun
Central Algonquian language
relative position of the agent and object on the animacy hierarchy. According to Dixon, the animacy hierarchy extends from first-person pronouns, second-person
Shawnee_language
Language group
22, 2012. Kittilä, Seppo; Västi, Katja; Ylikoski, Jussi (2011). Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 354. ISBN 978-90-272-0680-0
Permic_languages
Linguistic encoding of personal knowledge
Grammatical features Related to nouns Animacy Case Dative construction Dative shift Quirky subject Nominative Comitative Instrumental Classifier Measure
Egophoricity
Words in Kurukh that substitute for a noun or noun phrase
has a strict clusivity rule for the first-person plural (we), uses an animacy hierarchy to separate humans from objects, and has a five-way demonstrative
Pronouns_in_Kurukh
Computer Russification Morse code Braille Features Grammar Declension Animacy Reduplication Phonology Vowel reduction Literature Pushkin House Formalism
Russian_language_in_Belarus
Used to accentuate and intensify meaning
Computer Russification Morse code Braille Features Grammar Declension Animacy Reduplication Phonology Vowel reduction Literature Pushkin House Formalism
Reduplication_in_Russian
Language family
grammatical categories depending on certain semantic qualities, such as animacy and gender. Each noun class has a corresponding agreement prefix, which
Northeast_Caucasian_languages
Feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages
Grammatical features Related to nouns Animacy Case Dative construction Dative shift Quirky subject Nominative Comitative Instrumental Classifier Measure
Degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs
Degrees_of_comparison_of_adjectives_and_adverbs
ANIMACY
ANIMACY
ANIMACY
ANIMACY
Boy/Male
Italian Spanish
Mountain. Abbreviation of Montague and Montgomery.
Boy/Male
British, English
Battle Leader
Boy/Male
Afghan, African, American, Arabic, Australian, French, German, Indian, Irish, Muslim, Nigerian, Punjabi, Sikh, Sindhi
The Chosen One; Black Man; First Convert of Muhammad; Name of the Prophet's Muezzin (Person who Calls to Prayer); Wetting; Moistening; A Proph
Girl/Female
Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
Forest Dweller
Girl/Female
Hindu
Lovable, Dear, Loving
Boy/Male
Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
Iron Man, Vigour
Girl/Female
Hindu
Idol worship
Girl/Female
Indian, Telugu
Goddess of Success
Girl/Female
French American English Latin
Laurel.
Girl/Female
Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
Power and Virtue
ANIMACY
ANIMACY
ANIMACY
ANIMACY
ANIMACY