Humans, Animals, Things and Animacy

• Published in: Open Linguistics
• Main Authors: Bayanati, Shiva, Toivonen, Ida
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2019
• Subjects: Linguistics and Language; Language and Linguistics; Inari; saami
• Online Access: 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

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...