Humans, Animals, Things and Animacy
Abstract Animacy influences the patterns of subject-verb agreement marking in many languages, including Persian and Inari Saami. In Persian, animate plural subjects trigger plural agreement on the verb, whereas inanimate subjects may or may not trigger agreement. The variation is governed by factors...
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crdegruyter:10.1515/opli-2019-0010 2023-05-15T18:08:13+02:00 Humans, Animals, Things and Animacy Bayanati, Shiva Toivonen, Ida 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opli-2019-0010 https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/opli/5/1/article-p156.xml https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/opli-2019-0010/xml https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/opli-2019-0010/html en eng Walter de Gruyter GmbH http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Open Linguistics volume 5, issue 1, page 156-170 ISSN 2300-9969 Linguistics and Language Language and Linguistics journal-article 2019 crdegruyter https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2019-0010 2022-06-16T13:41:40Z Abstract Animacy influences the patterns of subject-verb agreement marking in many languages, including Persian and Inari Saami. In Persian, animate plural subjects trigger plural agreement on the verb, whereas inanimate subjects may or may not trigger agreement. The variation is governed by factors such as personification, agency and distributivity. In Inari Saami, verbs fully agree with human subjects and verbs partially agree with inanimate subjects. Verbs may or may not agree with subjects referring to animals. We argue that the intricate interaction between biological animacy and grammatical agreement in these two languages warrants careful consideration of the tripartite distinction between biological animacy in the world, our conceptualization of animacy and formal animacy features in the grammar. Article in Journal/Newspaper saami De Gruyter (via Crossref) Inari ENVELOPE(27.029,27.029,68.906,68.906) Open Linguistics 5 1 156 170 |
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Abstract Animacy influences the patterns of subject-verb agreement marking in many languages, including Persian and Inari Saami. In Persian, animate plural subjects trigger plural agreement on the verb, whereas inanimate subjects may or may not trigger agreement. The variation is governed by factors such as personification, agency and distributivity. In Inari Saami, verbs fully agree with human subjects and verbs partially agree with inanimate subjects. Verbs may or may not agree with subjects referring to animals. We argue that the intricate interaction between biological animacy and grammatical agreement in these two languages warrants careful consideration of the tripartite distinction between biological animacy in the world, our conceptualization of animacy and formal animacy features in the grammar. |
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