... Human > Animate > InanimateClearly, non-human animates, like animals, arenot less animate than humans in a biological sense,however, humans and animals show differing lin-guistic behaviour.Empirical ... from manual human annotation, auto-matic classification and, finally, an exter-nal evaluation in the task of syntactic pars-ing. We show that a treatment of animacyas a lexical semantic property ... approach to corpus linguistics. John Benjamins,Amsterdam.Annie Zaenen, Jean Carletta, Gregory Garretson, JoanBresnan, Andrew Koontz-Garboden, Tatiana Nikitina,M. Catherine O’Connor, and Tom...