What is an animate class?

An animate class is a category of nouns having human or animal referents.

In some languages, the animate class is a grammaticalized noun class.

• What is a noun class?

Crystal 1980 26

Hartmann and Stork 1972 14

Mish 1991 87

Context for this page:

• Concept module: animate class
• In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): A
• In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
• In bookshelf: Linguistics

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