Animacy and inflectional morphology across languages /
"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 distin...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2023]
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| Series: | Empirical approaches to linguistic theory ;
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