The Animacy Hierarchy and Western Austronesian Languages [electronic resource] / Richard McGinn.

A discussion of the animacy hierarchy in human discourse looks at the role of the hierarchy in three Western Austronesian languages: Tagalog, Bahasa Indonesia, and Rejang. Animacy corresponds to the degree of agency an entity has with a transitive verb as contrasted with the degree to which that ent...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	McGinn, Richard
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1989.
Subjects:	Indonesian. Language Patterns. Language Research. Linguistic Theory. Malayo Polynesian Languages. Semantics. Syntax. Tagalog. Uncommonly Taught Languages. Verbs.