Animacy: animacy
Similarly to Gender, animacy is a lexical feature of nouns and inflectional feature of other parts of speech that mark agreement with nouns. It is independent of gender, therefore it is encoded separately in some tagsets (e.g. all the Multext-East tagsets).
Anim: animate
Human beings, animals, fictional characters, names of professions etc. are all animate. Even nouns that are normally inanimate can be inflected as animate if they are personified. For instance, consider a children’s story about cars where cars live and talk as people; then the cars may become and be inflected as animates.
Examples
- человек “man”, министр “minister”, президент “president”, председатель “chairman”, режиссёр “director”
Inan: inanimate
Nouns that are not animate are inanimate.
Examples
- год “year”, закон “law”, состояние “state”, падеж “case”, миллион “million”
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