Animacy, argument structure, and argument encoding

Swart, Peter de; Lamers, M.J.A.; Lestrade, Sander

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2007.02.009

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“…dogs) pattern more like humans, whilst 'lower' animals (e.g. insects) pattern more like inanimate objects; thus animacy appears to be something of a 'gradient notion' (De Swart et al, 2008). 16 As an anonymous reviewer suggests, the constraints in this analysis preclude partial and closestconjunct agreement patterns.…”

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Subject marking and preverbal coordination in Sesotho: A perspective from Optimality Theory

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Mitchley

2012

Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

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Agreement usually operates in a one-to-one fashion where an agreement target is matched to a source of agreement. However, when there is more than one source (for example, in preverbal coordination constructions) agreement mismatches occur. These may be resolved either through partial agreement with only a single source, or by various resolution strategies. Bantu languages with their rich noun-class system are an ideal domain to explore resolution strategies. This paper examines the phenomenon of subject-verb agreement with preverbal coordinated DPs in Sesotho (S33) and outlines an Optimality Theoretic analysis of the various strategies that speakers use to negotiate subject verb agreement.

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Subject marking and preverbal coordination in Sesotho: A perspective from Optimality Theory

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Mitchley

2012

Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

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“…A recent project aimed at annotating corpora of contemporary English for animacy (Zaenen et al, 2004) concluded that as a linguistic category it is far from being well understood; furthermore, these authors found too few occurrences of their 'ANIMAL' category in the corpora they used to produce any results. They also point out discrepancies between linguistic and biological definitions of both the animate/non-animate distinction and the human/nonhuman one (see also Atran 1999, De Swart et al 2008c.f. Arluke and Sanders, 1996, on the 'sociozoologic scale').…”

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Animals, animacy and anthropocentrism

Sealey

2018

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This paper explores various ways in which contemporary British English depicts degrees of animacy among nonhuman animals, and demonstrates the anthropocentric qualities of much discourse about animals. The first section reviews discussions of animacy in relevant research literature, highlighting how these often take for granted a categorical distinction between humans and other animals, before demonstrating how both corpus-assisted approaches to discourse analysis and developments in the analysis of animacy point to a more complex picture. The second section discusses the implications of recent work in social theory for understanding organisms, and their degrees of animacy, from the perspective of networks rather than hierarchies.The third section of the paper presents analyses of an electronically stored corpus of language about animals. Three analyses of naming terms, descriptors and verbal patterns associated with various non-human animals illustrate a range of ways in which their animacy is denoted and connoted. They also demonstrate the influence of discourse type and human purpose on depictions of animals and assumptions about their animacy.

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“…de Hoop and Lamers 2006 ;de Swart 2007 ;Malchukov 2008 ) . The two functions of cases are described in the typological literature as follows (cf.…”

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“…Unsurprisingly, correlations between animacy and certain semantic roles, including agent and recipient (Fillmore's dative), are often noted only in passing (cf. VanValin and LaPolla 1997 ;de Swart et al 2008 ) .…”

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Animacy, Generalized Semantic Roles, and Differential Object Marking

Primus

2011

Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics

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Animacy, argument structure, and argument encoding

Cited by 60 publications

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Subject marking and preverbal coordination in Sesotho: A perspective from Optimality Theory

Subject marking and preverbal coordination in Sesotho: A perspective from Optimality Theory

Animals, animacy and anthropocentrism

Animacy, Generalized Semantic Roles, and Differential Object Marking

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