Effects of Animacy in Grammar and Cognition: Introduction to Special Issue
Most, if not all, languages exhibit “animacy effects”: grammatical structures interact with the relative animacy of noun referents, as represented on various versions of animacy scales, with human discourse participants at one end and inanimate objects at the other. Cross-linguistic evidence attests...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2019-07-01
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| Series: | Open Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2019-0015 |