TY  - GEN
T1  - Animacy and inflectional morphology across languages
T2  - Empirical approaches to linguistic theory ;
A1  - Santazilia, Ekaitz
LA  - English
PP  - Leiden ; Boston
PB  - Brill
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1345242786
AB  - "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"--
OP  - 436
CN  - P240.65 .S35 2023
SN  - 900451306X
SN  - 9789004513068
SN  - 9789004513051
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general : Animacy.
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general : Inflection.
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general : Morphology.
KW  - Animé (Linguistique)
KW  - Flexion (Linguistique)
KW  - Morphologie (Linguistique)
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general : Animacy
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general : Inflection
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general : Morphology
ER  -