Animacy and Agency in Conlings

William: I use my study playlist which is all instrumental music that helps because obviously when you're Conlinging if you have linguistic input while you're trying to do grammar. We are talking today about a very interesting topic we've touched on this many many times because it affects so many things in grammar but they kind of deserve its own episode mainly because we don't see much of this in English. It's sort of both Animacy and Agency and some metaphorical extensions all glommed into one continuum.