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• Title:Animacy and inflectional morphology across languages / by Ekaitz Santazilia.
  
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• Author/Creator:Santazilia, Ekaitz.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Brill Online Books
  
• Published/Created:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
  

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  • Call Number: P240.65
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Grammar, Comparative and general--Animacy.
  Grammar, Comparative and general--Inflection.
  Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphology.
  
• Subject(s):Electronic books.
  
• Description:1 online resource
  
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• Summary:"Did you know that in English there is a strong tendency towards using the Saxon genitive 's with humans instead of the preposition of? Did you ever hear that some Chinantecan languages encode the animate/inanimate distinction in almost every word, and that in Hatam only human nouns distinguish plural number? Animacy influences the grammar of languages in different ways, although it often goes unnoticed. This book offers for the first time a comprehensive cross-linguistic study of its effects on morphological systems. How does the theoretical definition of animacy fit real data? Do we observe different types of animacy? Which techniques are employed to encode it? Which categories and features are affected, and how? Data from more than 300 languages provide answers to these (and other) questions"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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• ISBN:9789004513068
  9789004513051