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Conlangery #57: Animacy and Agency

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Animacy Hierarchy

It is more surprising for a high animate thing to be the patient in an experience. And I think also it's just sort of high animacy things are likely to be more important, more topical. You're likely to have things like running water or wind before plants. It's not even necessarily pre-modern. The wind is moving. Rocks don't.

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