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Conlangery #57: Animacy and Agency

Conlangery Podcast

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Animacy Hierarchies in Blackfoot Verbs

In Blackfoot you can't even say guns kill people. You always have to say someone killed someone with a gun. So how do they do like, I guess like things like it's raining they might just do it like that something similar where rain is not,. wouldn't say rain is in transit. In a transitive verb we don't run into this problem. It varies from language to language but generally you have adult humans at the top. Sometimes adult male humans. And it's not a binary thing. It's humans, animals, plants, or... All sorts of things.

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