Animacy and inflectional morphology across languages / by Ekaitz Santazilia.
"Did you know that in English there is a strong tendency towards using the Saxon genitive 's with humans instead of the preposition of? Did you ever hear that some Chinantecan languages encode the animate/inanimate distinction in almost every word, and that in Hatam only human nouns distin...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2023]
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| Series: | Empirical approaches to linguistic theory
volume 19. |
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | "Did you know that in English there is a strong tendency towards using the Saxon genitive 's with humans instead of the preposition of? Did you ever hear that some Chinantecan languages encode the animate/inanimate distinction in almost every word, and that in Hatam only human nouns distinguish plural number? Animacy influences the grammar of languages in different ways, although it often goes unnoticed. This book offers for the first time a comprehensive cross-linguistic study of its effects on morphological systems. How does the theoretical definition of animacy fit real data? Do we observe different types of animacy? Which techniques are employed to encode it? Which categories and features are affected, and how? Data from more than 300 languages provide answers to these (and other) questions"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 900451306X 9789004513068 |
| ISSN: | 2210-6243 ; |