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Animate Class

Definition

An animate class is a category of nouns having human or animal referents.

Discussion

In some languages, the animate class is a grammaticalized noun class.

See also

Noun Referent

Sources 3

  1. Crystal 1980, 26
  2. Hartmann and Stork 1972, 14
  3. Mish 1991, 87
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