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animacy
noun[ U ]
language specializeduk /ˈæn.ɪ.mə.si/ us /ˈæn.ə.mə.si/
the quality in a noun of referring to something animate(= a living being): 有生性
Studies suggest that animacy has some influence on the syntactic structure of sentences.研究表明（名词的）有生性对句子的句法结构有一些影响。
Animacy and agency are linked in English; for example, sentences such as "The man kicked the ball" are more frequent than sentences such as "The ladder hit the man." 在英语里，有生性和能动性是相关联的;以句子为例，比如“人踢了球”就比“梯子砸了人”更常见。
With older children animacy might elicit the production of passive clauses.
Animacy is one of the most elementary principles in many languages, and is a distinction understood at a very early age.
Slavic languages that have case, including Russian, have a complex hierarchy of animacy.
The study looked at the influence of animacy on relative clause processing.
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