The two faces of animacy

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ID20381499
AuthorsEkaitz Santazilia (0000-0003-1158-821X, Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA), corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume44
Issue4
Pages812-830
Publication date2020-11-23
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudies in Language (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0378-4177 • E-ISSN: 1569-9978
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/sl.19089.san
OpenAlexW3080640278
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited27

As pointed out by Corbett ( 2006 , 2012 ), animacy manifests itself in the grammar of languages in two ways: as a feature and as a condition for the realization of other features. In this work I explore this dual behavior by adding further crosslinguistic evidence. I provide examples affecting number, person, case, and gender, and show that, regarding this distinction, they cannot be analyzed in the same way. Moreover, I examine more closely the relation between these manifestations of animacy and show that they can operate simultaneously not only within the same language but also in the same phenomenon. For these cases, I establish a hierarchy between them that can be crossed with the equally hierarchical relation between the animate/inanimate and the human/nonhuman distinction

Animacy · Cognitive psychology · Epistemology · Grammar · Hierarchy · Linguistics · Phenomenon · Political science · Categorization, perception, and language · Child and Animal Learning Development · Computer Science · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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