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Animacy

Animacy (antonym: inanimacy) is a grammatical and semantic feature, existing in some languages, expressing how sentient or alive the referent of a noun is. Widely expressed, animacy is one of the most elementary principles in languages around the globe and is a distinction acquired as early as six months of age.

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Animacy

Nodes71
Edges70
Triples69
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.028169
Components1

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Animacy

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related to Arabic · 16
Animacy → Al-muhandisāt, Al-muhandisūn, Al-ṭā'irāt, Almāniyā, Also, Arabic, Compare, Germany, In Classical, Modern Standard Arabic, Reworking, Taṭīr, The, Thus, Verbs, When
related to Navajo (Diné) · 12
Animacy → Athabaskan, Both, Diné, For, Generally, If, Like, Morgan, Navajo, Southern Athabaskan, The, Young
related to Examples · 11
Animacy → English, Finnish, For, Georgian, In Finnish, Indo-European, Italian, Some, The, There, Turkish
related to Thematic roles · 7
Animacy → Actor, Additionally, Agency, Agent, Experiencer, NP, Similarly
related to Types of animacy · 7
Animacy → Biological, De Swart, Each, Hoop, Living, Plants, This
related to Japanese · 5
Animacy → Although, An, Japanese, That, The
related to External links · 3
Animacy → The, Wiktionary, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to Split ergativity · 3
Animacy → In, Likewise, The
related to Hierarchical alignment · 2
Animacy → In, The
related to Korean · 2
Animacy → For, Middle Korean

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animate inanimate nouns languages noun exist verb plural subject ga used like sbj humans animals objects pronouns navajo agreement example

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Animacyis akey component of agency0.90text
Animacyrelated to ArabicReworking0.60section
Animacyrelated to ArabicArabic0.60section
Animacyrelated to ArabicIn Classical0.60section
Animacyrelated to ArabicModern Standard Arabic0.60section
Animacyrelated to ArabicVerbs0.60section
Animacyrelated to ArabicWhen0.60section
Animacyrelated to ArabicAlso0.60section
Animacyrelated to ArabicThus0.60section
Animacyrelated to ArabicAl-muhandisūn0.60section
Animacyrelated to ArabicAlmāniyā0.60section
Animacyrelated to ArabicThe0.60section

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