Her final section contains not only sample texts but also explanations of such matters as saliency and
animacy hierarchies, and manipulating participants in discourse.
(30) These particular trees, whose
animacy enabled the ancestral birth of Kennedy as the Kumina Queen, are also central to Tamo epistemologies and ontologies, as they also go by the Tamo name, ceiba.
In her article "Russian evaluative nominalizing suffixes and change in gender", Olga Steriopolo uses the framework of Distributed Morphology to observe and analyze how evaluative suffixes (--an--,--jash--,--jon--,--ul--,--un,--ur--,--us--,--ush--, --ag,--jak,--al--,--jar--,--akh--,--il--,--in--,--ob--,--ot--,--okh--,--jug--,--uk--,--ukh--) influence the change in category features of Russian nouns, such as
animacy, declension class and grammatical gender.
These marks are traces of Ancestral potency that were applied to bodies before they came to be transposed onto canvases, which explains their visceral depth--and
animacy. This art is not confined to the picture plane: it pulsates and shines.
(2016) Vital wheels: Disability, relationality, and the queer
animacy of vibrant things.
Psychological scientist Katherine Powers of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire said that this increased sensitivity to
animacy suggested that people are casting a wide net when looking for people they can possibly relate to, which might ultimately help them maximize opportunities to renew social connections, Science Daily reported.
In Estonian, these features are semantic
animacy (roughly human/non-human) and the type of the argument questioned (subject/object), the latter being derived from the case form of the pronoun.
The work of Asia Ward also evokes a sense of connection and responsibility and is concerned with themes of
animacy and life, renewable energy, and the environment.
Zoghbi, "Measurement instruments for the anthropomorphism,
animacy, likeability, perceived intelligence, and perceived safety of robots," International Journal of Social Robotics, vol.