ANIMACY

Question 1

Animacy hierarchy

Answer 1

Languages tend to treat participants differently.
> Depending on the form of their expression.
> And where it is located on this hierarchy

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1st person pronouns
2nd peson pronouns
Demonstratives/3rd person pronouns
Proper Nouns
COMMON NOUNS:
Human
Animate
Inanimate
----- ANIMACY -----

Question 2

Linguistic stuctures

Answer 2

Diverse linguistic structures follow the animacy hierarchy.
Split ergativity:
DYIRBAL SPLIT:
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ACCUSATIVE:
1st person pronouns
2nd peson pronouns
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
ERGATIVE:
Demonstratives/3rd person pronouns
Proper Nouns
COMMON NOUNS:
Human
Animate
Inanimate
----- ANIMACY -----

Valence:
Navaho
- argument marking, and more…

Question 3

Underlying principle to animacy scale?

Answer 3

> not the everyday sense of ‘animacy’

More likely to be A than O
about salience in discourse
> Likelihood of being A or S