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Animacy in Classical Armenian| title | Animacy in Classical Armenian |
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| start_date | 2026/06/16 |
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| schedule | 10h30-12h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle 512 bis ou 510 & en ligne |
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| summary | While Classical Armenian has lost grammatical gender in the course of its development from Proto-Indo-European, a range of its morphosyntactic phenomena prove to be sensitive to animacy. In standard grammars of Classical Armenian, animacy is commonly discussed with respect to the two series of indefinite and interrogative pronouns. However, it has also been identified as one of the factors conditioning the differential marking of verbal arguments, including the intransitive subject of the perfect tenses (Nom vs. Gen), the direct object (Acc vs. z-Acc), the passive agent (i-Abl vs. Ins), and the goal (i-Acc vs. aṙ-Acc).
In my talk, I revisit these phenomena on basis of corpus-driven data from the morphosyntactically annotated treebank of Classical Armenian (UD v2.18), in order to provide a more precise account of the role of animacy, alongside other parameters (particularly those relating to referential prominence), in the aforementioned split encoding patterns. |
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| responsibles | François |
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| submitted | published | | 2026/05/27 13:16 UTC |
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