IuraCivium
Since: Nov, 2009
Nov 27th 2017 at 7:27:38 PM
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That section isn't relevant to English, as it doesn't really have an animacy hierarchy. There are languages that do, such as Navajo, and that's when things go on a Disney Acid Sequence.
Edited by IuraCivium {Star Trek}** exists in large part because of Tsar Nicholas II Romanov was assassinated and I don't know how to feel about that
The section on "Anymacy Hierarchy" is weird. It says that
"In essence, objects can appear in the agent role only if the patient role, if any, is either in the same tier or lower of the hierarchy—e.g., a general word for a person can appear as the agent if an inanimate object is the patient, but not the other way around."
That this is false can be seen by the following examples:
The dog bit Charles.
The rock fell on my foot.
The man greeted me.
in all of which, the agent is lower in the proposed hierarchy than the patient.
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