Subject: who animal in russian etc .

jules 's point about animacy in the grammar of russian does not explain why russians use * kto * ' who ' for asking about varieties of animals ( as in * kto tebja ukusil * , lit . ' who bit you ' , where english and many other lgs would have ' what ' ) . the problem is that polish has the same grammar of animacy in other respects but would not use ' who ' for animals that way ( as far as i can tell ) . alexis mr
