Animacy: animacy
Similarly to Gender (and to the African noun classes), animacy is usually a lexical feature of nouns and inflectional feature of other parts of speech that mark agreement with nouns. It is independent of gender, therefore it is encoded separately in some tagsets (e.g. all the Multext-East tagsets).
In the BulTreeBank tagset Animacy is not encoded as a special feature.
The dichotomy that plays a role here is rather: Human - Non-human.
With very few exceptions, these features are not encoded grammatically.
At this point we consider dangerous to use Hum: human.
Anim: animate
Examples
As explicitly Animate can be considered the following pronouns:
- the masculine accusative forms of some pronouns: Pre-as-m (relative - когото /kogoto “whom”), Pce-as-m (collective - всекиго /vsekigo “everybody”, Pie-as-m (interrogative - кого /kogo “whom”), Pfe-as-m (indefinite - някого /nyakogo “somebody”), Pne-as-m (negative - никого /nikogo “nobody”))
- some pronouns for quantity of humans: Piy (interrogative - колцина / koltsina “how many”); Pfy# (indefinite - неколцина / nekoltsina “few, some”)
- the 1st and 2nd personal and possessive pronouns: Ppe#1 (аз, ние / az, nie “I, we”), Ppe#2 (ти, вие / ti, vie “you, you”), Pph#2 (Вие / Vie “you-honorific”); Ps#1# (мой / moy “my”), Ps#2# (твой / tvoy “your”)
Nhum: animate but non-human
Examples
It has the so-called count form in contrast to the humans, but only for masculine nouns. The count form is a kind of plural, which comes after numerals.
- два лъва / dva lava “two lions”
Inan: inanimate
Examples
It has also the so-called count form in contrast to the humans, but only for masculine nouns. The count form is a kind of plural, which comes after numerals.
- три стола / tri stola “three chairs”
Note that the symbol `#’, used in the Universal POS section indicates a holder for arbitrary number of features, suppressed in the respective tag as irrelevant in the BulTreeBank tagset, when mapped to the Universal one.
Animacy in other languages: [bg] [cs] [hy] [ka] [qpm] [quc] [ru] [sl] [u] [uk] [urb] [xcl]