Re: Animate vs Inanimate lexical constraints

From: Ron Hardin (rhhardin_at_mindspring.com)
Date: 09/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 20:22:21 GMT

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> Ron Hardin wrote:
> >
> > Padraic Brown wrote:
> > > Out of curiosity: what's you point? What is it you find incorrect
> > > about "a class...wakes up"? In American, singular and collective
> > > subjects agree with singular verbs - this is an example of a
> > > collective. Or is the problem the animacy of "class"? To me there's no
> > > problem: "class" can be animate if one or more of its constituents is
> > > animate. I also don't see any reason why animacy can't be assigned to
> > > traditionally inanimate objects anyway.
> >
> > The point is to gloss why I had to reread the sentence
>
> You're somewhat dyslexic?

No, it's what we call a clue. 

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