%0 Conference Paper
%A Khristanto, -
%A Arif Budiman, -
%B AICONIC: Adab-International Conference on Information and Cultural Sciences 2020
%C Faculty of Adab and Cultural Sciences UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta
%D 2020
%F digilib:58117
%K animacy, human, language, Indonesian, Javanese
%P 234-239
%T Animacy Concept on Pronoun, Genetive, and Concordance Systems in Indonesian and Javanese
%U https://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/id/eprint/58117/
%X Animacy refers to categories based on "animate" and "inamate", which are internalized in the  structure of language. Nouns is classified based on their level of "animacy", the distinction  between humans and animals, and animals are graded again from higher and lower levels  (Comrie: 1989). This study aims to compare the concept of animacy in three languages, namely  English, Indonesian and Javanese - especially from the behavioral aspects of the pronouns of  these languages, namely first, second, and third person pronouns (human, animal, object) both  plural and singular. The study data will be analyzed by using Comrie's typology perspective  (1989). From the analysis, it was shown that English is language which gives a specific pronoun  for non-human animates and inanimate entities, like animal or things, with its pronoun of “it”  and even equalizes “them” to human in plural form. Meanwhile, othe two languages do not  have any specific pronoun for non-human. Javanese, even, do not have the third person pronoun  for human subject either singular or plural—meaning the animacy level for third person is  lower than the first and second person. Javanese has further animacy distinction in terms of  Genetive case and action/behavioral verb agreement between human and non-human.