Re: Animacy in active languages (was Re: Non-static verbs?)

Nik Taylor wrote:

>Marcus Smith wrote:
>> Do I detect a trace of Navajo inspiration here?
>
>Nope.  I know next to nothing about Navajo, so if there's a similarity,
>it's purely co-incidental.  :-)
It's such an unusual traint, that I thought for sure....  Oh well.  Shows what
I know.

Navajo has a similar word order feature.  Given two arguments, the higher one
on the animacy heirarchy generally comes first, with agreement on the verb
specifying which grammatical role they play.

I've thought about putting this into a conlang, but it seemed so unique that I
didn't want to rip it off.  Maybe I'll have to reconsider.  With your
permission of course. :)

Marcus