Animacy: animacy
| Values: | Anim | Inan |
Animacy is a lexical feature of nouns. In Old Georgian, it is not marked morphologically and does not influence number agreement. Therefore, it is best understood as a semantic, rather than a morphosyntactic, category.
The Animacy feature applies to NOUN and PROPN.
Anim: animate nouns.
Human beings, animals, fictional characters, names of professions etc. are normally animate.
Examples
- იაკობ ‘Jacob’ etc.
Inan: inanimate nouns.
Nouns that are not animate are inanimate.
Examples
- ქალაქ, ქალაქი ‘city’ etc.
Animacy in other languages: [axm] [bg] [cs] [hy] [ka] [oge] [qpm] [quc] [ru] [sl] [u] [uk] [urb] [xcl]