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Case, Animacy and Semantic RolesEdited by Seppo Kittilä, Katja Västi and Jussi Ylikoski
[Typological Studies in Language 99] 2011
► pp. 157–182
Edited by Seppo Kittilä, Katja Västi and Jussi Ylikoski
[Typological Studies in Language 99] 2011
► pp. 157–182
Animacy and spatial cases
Typological tendencies, and the case of Basque
In the expression of spatial relationships, it is cross-linguistically common that human or animate nouns have particularities that distinguish them from other nouns. After presenting cross-linguistic data illustrating some tendencies observed in the behavior of human or animate nouns in spatial orienter function, this paper examines the contribution of Basque data to this question.
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