Re: Animacy of nouns

Carsten Becker wrote:

> ...
> are there groups of "objects with high animateness",
> "objects with an average animacy", "objects with a low
> animacy", "inanimate objects", i.e. some kind of noun
> classes for this?
The one thing I remember off the top of my head from college syntax is
that first-person and second-person pronouns often have their own
animacy classes, and when they do, they are of the highest animacy.
Probably there are other patterns as well.

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