Description and quantity
Kinds of participants
Human, animal or thing
Are we talking about a person, an animal, or a thing?
animacy
Makna
Whether we are talking about a person, an animal, or a thing can affect the words and forms we choose. This can help us ask about it or connect it to a description. Languages draw these distinctions differently, and some do not mark them in grammar. Grammatical gender and noun classes covers groups of nouns that do not necessarily match these categories.
Cara mengenalinya
Compare how a language asks about or refers to people, animals, and things in otherwise similar sentences.
Dalam bahasa ibu Anda
Indonesia
Animacy is not a broad grammatical system, but humanness affects pronouns, classifiers and word choice.
Saya melihat orang itu.