Humans, animals, things and animacy
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...
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ftcarletonunivir:oai:carleton.ca:24732 2023-05-15T18:08:12+02:00 Humans, animals, things and animacy Bayanati, S. (Shiva) Toivonen, I. (Ida) 2019-01-01 application/pdf https://ir.library.carleton.ca/pub/24732 https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2019-0010 en eng https://ir.library.carleton.ca/pub/24732 doi:10.1515/opli-2019-0010 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Open Linguistics vol. 5 no. 1, pp. 156-170 Agreement Animacy Features info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2019 ftcarletonunivir https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2019-0010 2022-02-06T21:51:28Z 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 Carleton University's Institutional Repository Inari ENVELOPE(27.029,27.029,68.906,68.906) Open Linguistics 5 1 156 170 |
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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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