Animacy and Affectedness in Germanic Languages
This paper deals with the influence of animacy on affectedness. German, like other Germanic languages, requires oblique marking of the inanimate undergoer argument of verbs of contact by impact (e.g. hit, kick, bite), whereas the animate undergoer argument takes non-oblique marking. Inanimacy does n...
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| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Open Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2018-0028 |