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If two nouns with equal animacy but different number appear as core arguments, the plural noun is assigned a higher animacy status than the singular noun. However, if animacy and number are equal, the most recently introduced noun, providing it was introduced as a core argument, is assigned the higher animacy status.

In situations were two nouns have equal animacy ''and'' equal number, the rules for assigning the position each core argument in the hierarchy is as follows:

# If one of the nouns is just newly introduced info, it is considered less animate because the older noun has been presumably been the center of discourse and at least during part of the previous discourse it was agent. SOV order is usually used, particularly if pragmatics and other contextual cues cannot disambiguate the syntactic roles

# HOWEVER, if the new noun is topicalized with the clitic ="=hat", it is considered the agent.

# Another pattern, where a new noun is introduced by an intransitive been as a Patient argument, it is regarded as the less animate argument once the older noun is reintroduced back into the discourse in a transitive construction.

# If the animacy level of each argument cannot be resolved, then the unmarked SOV word order is used when context can't disambiguate syntactic roles.

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 If two nouns with equal animacy but different number appear as core arguments, the plural noun is assigned a higher animacy status than the singular noun.  However, if animacy and number are equal, the most recently introduced noun, providing it was introduced as a core argument, is assigned the higher animacy status.
+In situations were two nouns have equal animacy ''and'' equal number, the rules for assigning the position each core argument in the hierarchy is as follows:
+# If one of the nouns is just newly  introduced info, it is considered less animate because the older noun has been presumably been the center of discourse and at least during part of the previous discourse it was agent. SOV order is  usually used, particularly if pragmatics and other contextual cues cannot disambiguate the syntactic roles
+# HOWEVER, if the new noun is topicalized with the clitic ="=hat", it is considered the agent.
+# Another pattern, where a new noun is introduced by an intransitive been as a Patient argument,  it is regarded as the less animate argument once the older noun is reintroduced back into the discourse in a transitive construction.
+# If the animacy level of each argument cannot be resolved, then the unmarked SOV word order is used when context can't disambiguate syntactic roles.
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