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Animacy — is a grammatical and/or semantic category of nouns based on how sentient or alive the referent of the noun is. Animacy can have various effects on the grammar of a language, such as word order, case endings, or the form a verb takes when it is… … Wikipedia
Grammatical gender — This article is about noun classes. For uses of language associated with men and women, see Language and gender. For methods of minimizing the use of gendered forms, see Gender neutral language. For other uses, see Gender (disambiguation).… … Wikipedia
Navajo language — Navajo Diné bizaad Spoken in USA Region Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado Native speakers 171,000 … Wikipedia
Southern Athabascan grammar — Southern Athabascan (also Apachean, Southern Athabaskan) is a subfamily of Athabaskan languages spoken in the North American Southwest. Refer to Southern Athabascan languages for the main article.Typological overviewTypologically, Southern… … Wikipedia
Noun class — Grammatical categories Animacy Aspect Case Clusivity Definiteness Degree of comparison Evidentiality Focus … Wikipedia
Northern Yukaghir language — language name=Northern Yukaghir familycolor=Palaeosiberian states=Russia region=Yakutia and the Kamchatka Peninsula speakers=30 ndash;150 fam1=Yukaghir iso2=mis|iso3=ykgThe Northern or Tundra Yukaghir language is one of only two Yukaghir… … Wikipedia
Nominative–accusative language — Nominative accusative alignment Linguistic typology Morphological Isolating Synthetic … Wikipedia
Tundra Yukaghir language — Tundra Yukaghir Spoken in Russia Region Yakutia Native speakers 30–150 (date missing) Language family Yukaghir … Wikipedia
Maya Pencheva — Prof. Maya Pencheva Maya Pencheva (Bulgarian: Майя Стефанова Пенчева, pronounced [ˈmajə ˈpɛntʃevə]; born 3 May 1947) is a Bulgarian linguist best known for her work on English word formation, semantics and language typology. Maya Pencheva, D.Litt … Wikipedia
Direct-inverse language — A direct inverse language is a language where clauses with transitive verbs can be expressed either using a direct or an inverse construction. The direct construction is used when the subject of the transitive clause outranks the object in… … Wikipedia
