From Inanimacy to Animacy

The masculine animate/inanimate classification is a general characteristic Printed Leather Wallet of Croatian and other Slavonic languages (except Bulgarian and Macedonian).In this classification there are two types of case syncretism: genitive-accusative syncretism conditioned by animacy of the noun and nominative-accusative syncretism conditioned by inanimacy of the noun.Using the examples Camera Cleaning Kit extracted from everyday speech, this paper deals with inanimate masculines which do not follow prototype nominative-accusative patterns and strives to elucidate semantic and lexical conditions for their gramaticalanimacy, discernible in genitive-accusative syncretism.