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Topic: Animacy

	Animacy, Respect and Salience in Surinamese Creoles
		Animacy is more of a "force" than a feature; it "distorts" grammars like a "strange attractor" (Dery 1993: 189), licensing expansion in complexity against the rule of "least effort".
		Animacy is also heavily implicated in the selective transfer of grammatical elements from the West African substrate to SC grammar.
		Animacy effects can motivate structures that are extremely marked in terms of the overall global strategy of the SC grammars.
	www.enformy.com /dma-anim.htm (4795 words)

	Definition of Animacy
		Animacy is a grammatical category, usually of nouns, which influences the form a verb takes when it is associated with that noun.
		Usually, animacy has to do with how alive or how sentient a noun is. Humans, for instance, usually occupy a very high slot in an animacy hierarchy, only ever being ranked below deities or gods.
		Examples of languages which possess animacy hierarchies include the Mexican language Totonac and the Apachean languages (such as Western Apache and Navajo), whose animacy hierarchy has been the subject of intense study.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Animacy (460 words)

	Programming with Agents - 3.3 Animacy and Computation - Michael Travers
		Animacy is a primary domain, in that it is not itself grounded in metaphor but in more basic processes.
		Cybernetics concerned itself precisely with those properties of animacy marginalized by Turing's hypothetical machine and the later actual machines: purposefulness, autonomy, reactivity, and the importance of the relationship between an organism and its environment.
		Animacy is a powerful conceptual tool with which to analyze programming paradigms (see Table 3.2 for a summary).
	xenia.media.mit.edu /~mt/thesis/mt-thesis-3.3.html (5883 words)

	VCL Research: animacy
		The factors influencing the way this velocity change is interpreted tell us a lot about the underlying mechanisms of animacy attribution.
		For example If the object's body is aligned with the motion direction before the velocity change but misaligned afterwards (panel c in the figure), it destroys the animate percept—objects that do not appear to be in control of their own motion do not appear alive.
		One of the conclusions from this work is that animacy judgments are reserved for objects that appear to have "minds of their own."
	ruccs.rutgers.edu /~jacob/VCL/vcl_animacy.html (327 words)

	Cogprints - What is Animacy in Dynamical Movement? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Cogprints - What is Animacy in Dynamical Movement?
		Kuwamura, Hiroyuki and Yamamoto, Tomoyuki and Hashimoto, Takashi (2005) What is Animacy in Dynamical Movement?
		dynamical movement, motion analysis, animacy discrimination, evolutionary algorithm
	cogprints.org /4991 (90 words)

	Encyclopedia entries starting with ANI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Jung also believed that every woman has an analogous animus within her psyche, this being a set of unconscious..
		Animacy is a grammatical category, usually of nouns, which influences the form a verb takes when it is associated with that noun.
		Usually, animacy has to do with how alive or how sentient a noun is. Humans, for instance, usually occupy a very high slot in an animacy hierarchy, only ever being ranke..
	encycl.opentopia.com /A/AN/ANI (9774 words)

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