Memory-Based Learning of Animacy
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چکیده
Animacy is highly correlated with a number of other linguistic concepts, such as transitivity, agentivity, topicality and discourse salience. A key generalisation or tendency is that prominent grammatical features tend to attract other prominent features; subjects, for instance, will tend to be animate and agentive, whereas objects prototypically are inanimate and themes/patients. Exceptions to this generalisation express a more marked structure, a property which has consequences, for instance, for the distributional properties of the structure in question. Building on these assumptions, seven morphosyntactic features which, in different ways, approximate the multi-faceted property of animacy are made use of for classification:
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