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Conlangery #57: Animacy and Agency

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Aren't Inanimate Nouns in Spanish Marked Funky?

There's still a lot of fun you can have with animacy, says Hylie. animate nouns need to be more heavily marked for accused of it than non-accusative ones. In Korean elderly people always use inanimate marking for robots, but kids are happy to elevate robots to animates. The Navajo system takes generative instead of taking accusative when masculine and animate.

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