Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separ…
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Inanimacy
(linguistics) The characteristic of a noun, in some languages, that is dependent on its unliving or non-sentient nature; this characteristic affects grammatical features (it can modify verbs used with the noun, affect the noun's declension etc.).; "In other words, the inanimacy of a head noun like ‘evidence’ appeared not to penetrate the syntactic analysis of the verb ‘examined’."
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