Acknowledgements
This book is for you, Martin, because the effects of your animacy brighten our lives everyday (and, above all, every night), and for you, Idoia, as someone who experiences firsthand or is a victim of that animacy. Moreover, I am grateful to my family, to Iván Igartua for his constant support (both emotional and academic), to people at Surrey Morphology Group (University of Surrey), to Enrique Palancar, and to Cameron Watson for his careful review of the language in the text.
This work has been carried out with the assistance of the research projects La categorización de la animacidad desde una perspectiva tipológica (MEC, FFI2014-57260-P); Diacronía de la animacidad: aproximación tipológica al origen de las marcas animadas (MICIU, PGC2018-098995-B-I00); and Monumenta Linguae Vasconum (VI): avances en cronología de la historia y la prehistoria de la lengua vasca (MEC, PID2020-118445GB-I00).