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Conlangery #57: Animacy and Agency

Conlangery Podcast

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The Animacy Hierarchy

In a good number of languages nouns for human beings operate slightly differently than the names of human beings. Named individuals Bob is typically going to be slightly higher up the hierarchy scale than the man. The point is once you've got one a whole bunch of things that kind of intuitively seem quite different on one level but sort of metaphorically all come together and that's very common so I just wanted to make that point before we move on and talk about some of these hierarchies.

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