sentence1: animacy is the semantic property of nouns denoting whether , or to what extent , the referent of that noun is alive , human-like or even cognitively sophisticated .
sentence2: animacy is a an inherent property of the referents of nouns which has been claimed to figure as an influencing factor in a range of different grammatical phenomena in various languages and it is correlated with central linguistic concepts such as agentivity and discourse salience .