10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANIMACY»
Discover the use of
animacy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
animacy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect
Rethinks the criteria governing agency and receptivity, health and toxicity, productivity and stillness
2
Case,
Animacy and Semantic Roles
The chapters of this volume scrutinize the interplay of different combinations of case, animacy and semantic roles, thus contributing to our understanding of these notions in a novel way.
Seppo Kittilä, Katja Västi, Jussi Ylikoski, 2011
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Animacy and Reference: A Cognitive Approach to Corpus ...
C. 1. What. is. 'Animacy'? 1.1 General Animacy Scale: Humanness,
Animacy and Inanimacy 1.1.1 Anthropocentricity The General Animacy Scale is
based on a literal sense of the concept of animacy — i.e. an assumed cognitive ...
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Social Perception: Detection and Interpretation of
Animacy, ...
An interdisciplinary exploration of perceptual and cognitive processes underlying the ability to perceive social information, drawing on current research and new experimental techniques.
M.D. Rutherford, Valerie A. Kuhlmeier, 2013
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Frequency Effects in Language Acquisition: Defining the ...
The present study explores the role of the following factors in animacy acquisition
by Czech children: structural aspects of plural formation, referen- tiality, and, in
particular, frequency. Children and adults were asked to produce plural forms of ...
Insa Gülzow, Natalia Gagarina, 2007
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Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and ...
9.1 INTRODUCTION: THE NATURE OF ANIMACY The present chapter, the last
of those concerned with synchronic study of language universals and typology, is
somewhat different from its predecessors, which were concerned for the most ...
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The Acquisition of Syntactic Structure:
Animacy and Thematic ...
This book explains a well-known puzzle that helped catalyze the establishment of generative syntax: how children tease apart the different syntactic structures associated with sentences like John is easy/eager to please.
The conceptual feature that best expresses the essence of the category, animacy,
is extension. Requiring that the referent be reidentifiable in each of its
manifestations, extension thereby signals the integrity of the referent with regard
to the ...
We shall see in §3.1 that according to the Animacy Hierarchy this is predicted to
be impossible. We shall then look at the types of nominal which may be
distinguished in terms of their participation in the number system (§3.2). Next we
ask what ...
Greville G. Corbett, 2000
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Corpus Analysis and Variation in Linguistics
Introduction Cross-linguistic research has shown animacy to play an important
role in determining the nature of a number of syntactic and morphological
phenomena in natural languages. Studies such as Bock & Warren (2005),
Gennari ...
Yuji Kawaguchi, Makoto Minegishi, Jacques Durand, 2009
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANIMACY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
animacy is used in the context of the following news items.
Nkrumah Did Not Force His Views On African Leaders 3
In other words, one and not the other may have given birth to the other at the dawn of the history of “sentient” animacy. Here, too, as in the ... «GhanaWeb, May 15»
Living beings as our kith and kin - we need a new pronoun for nature
Inspired by the grammar of animacy and with full recognition of its ... On behalf of the living world, let us learn the grammar of animacy. We can ... «The Ecologist, Apr 15»
HitchBOT returns from German adventure with souvenirs, stories
Reasonably, we know that the animacy, the vital kind of living-ness that we have, is absent, is algorithmic," Smith said. "But I think we have ... «CBC.ca, Mar 15»
VIDEO: Journey of Indigenous Gender Identity
Instead words are categorized through on animacy meaning spirit energy or inanimacy meaning no spiritual energy or purpose. «News Talk 650 CKOM, Nov 14»
Lonely people are more likely to see doll faces as human
“From an evolutionary perspective, people who can more readily detect animacy can cast a wider net when identifying possible sources of ... «SBS, Sep 14»
Social relationship status 'may influence perceptions of facial animacy'
The researchers found that the students who had been told they would be isolated and lonely in the future were more likely to see animacy ... «Medical News Today, Sep 14»
Lonely Planet: Relationships With Inanimate Objects Develop When …
Katherine Powers, lead author of a new study looking into this issue, said in a press release that having an increased sensitivity to animacy, ... «Medical Daily, Sep 14»
Faces are more likely to seem alive when we want to feel connected
"This increased sensitivity to animacy suggests that people are casting a wide net when looking for people they can possibly relate to—which ... «Medical Xpress, Sep 14»
Loneliness narrows the uncanny valley
"This increased sensitivity to animacy suggests that people are casting a wide net when looking for people they can possibly relate to -- which ... «CNET, Sep 14»
Why robots are getting cuter
But if you're not careful, animacy can backfire. Robots too similar to people fall into the uncanny valley. Totally inhuman ones, like Darpa's Big ... «The Verge, Aug 14»
