Animate vs inanimate

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    Animate vs inanimate

    The fourth nounal opposition distinguishes between living beings — people and animals, on the one hand, and things, on the other, and thus is relevant within the classes of proper, common, concrete countables.

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    Human (person) vs non-human (non-person)
    This pair is the result of the division of animate nouns into those which are intended to name human beings or people and those that represent names of animals at large.

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