a ranking of entities including contextually defined and individually defined entities as well as categories of entities. The Extended Animacy Hierarchy is given below, with the construction for each position on the hierarchy given in square brackets: first/second person [ pronoun] < third person [ pronoun] < individual [ proper noun] < human [ common noun] < (nonhuman) animate [common noun] < inanimate [common noun]. The Extended Animacy Hierarchy figures in many grammatical phenomena. (Section 3.1.2)