Questions tagged [animacy]

Animacy has come up in a few recent questions, especially in comparison to gender. One interesting thing that turned up in the comments on those questions was whether or not animacy can sometimes be purely grammatical. Let me compare with gender…

I recently saw this tweet by 3blue1brown, and it got me thinking about how English phrases of the form "[noun] from [year]" work. The distinction described in the tweet seems to reduce to the following example. If I say "person from 1995", to me…