Glossary term I

Inanimate Class

An inanimate class is a category of nouns that do not have human or animal referents.

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

  1. Hartmann and Stork 1972, 93
  2. Lyons 1968, 286–288
  3. Crystal 1985, 17
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