Citations:animacies

English citations of animacies

• 1977 Ernest Buckler, Alan Young, The Cruelest Month, page 147:

  Their simple animacies, elsewhere a background unfelt, here tingled in them as entities. Sheila's snubs had loosened the lint on them and the wash of woods…

• 1987 Janice Kulyk Keefer, Under Eastern Eyes: A Critical Reading of Maritime Fiction, page 81:

  …together release a 'gentle acid wash' in which the would-be lovers' 'simple animacies ' are at last allowed to 'tingl[e] in them as entities' (CM 147). …

• 1993 John Frow, Meaghan Morris, Australian Cultural Studies: A Reader, page 93:

  …causation for the death of the young woman is located outside of society, and outside history — in (super) natural forces or extra-human animacies. …

• 2001 Algonquian Indians, Papers of the Algonquian Conference, page 397:

  The animacies of terms not given in the dictionary are determined by their agreement patterns (plural endings, demonstratives, or verbal agreement) within…

• 2003, Berkeley Linguistics Society Annual meeting, Paweł M. Nowak, Corey Yoquelet, David Mortensen, General Session: And Parasession on Phonetic Sources of Phonological Patterns : Synchronic and Diachronic Explanations, page 181:

  …these languages are derived by local conjunction of the subhierarchies on the animacies of the subject and object and object topicality: (27) Table 3. …

• 2005 Randall Stevenson, The Last of England?: Volume 12: 1960-2000: The Last of England?, page 571:

  …1987) suggested in its title the interests of poetry which traced powerful animacies in the natural world and their resonances with the human psyche. …