| 单词 | animacy hierarchy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasanimacy hierarchy animacy hierarchy n. Grammar a ranking of words based on their degree of animacy, with those denoting human beings usually ranked highest, and those denoting inanimate objects lowest. ΚΠ 1975 Slavic & East European Jrnl. 19 135 These hierarchies include count/mass, concrete/abstract, and feminine animate/other nouns (a conflation of the animacy hierarchy with the morphological hierarchy). 1988 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 33 222 A bypological connection may have been pointed out for them (for example the tendency for languages to conform to the animacy hierarchy in areas such as case marking, verb agreement, transitivity markings, etc.). 2004 W. Bisang in B. Kortmann Dialectol. meets Typol. 27 Although this hierarchy also makes a distinction between pronouns and common nouns, it obviously deviates from the animacy hierarchy. < as lemmas |
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