sum wh animal recently asked whether one says ask variety animal contexts person walks room swollen arm say wh bit b see animal disappearing woods say wh following languages thanks people listed info seem use although context gave respondents like either alternative greek speaker wished identified name finnish swedish jussi karlgren english hebrew david gil dutch french bert peeters georgian ivan derzhanski german john peterson norwegian swedish marit julien danish soren harder would add polish list based judgements ivan derzhanski adds bulgarian list testimony particularly valuable since feels clear contrast bulgarian russian greg gouzev says would use context b hand dale russell reports cheyenne people animate rocks trees leaves branches sun animals animate far know body parts animate roughly voluntarily movable noses animate fingers point rock ask native speaker correct say answer question least experience fieldmethods type language learning experience jonathan bobaljnik reports itel men sometimes uses sometimes referring animals unfortunately little data language cant specific conditions determining get clearest example language uses russian striking contrast closely related polish bulgarian stated standard works language confirmed alex eulenberg ari solovyova ivan derzhanski must add daniel radzinski reports least one speaker spoke gave different judgements find particularly interesting fact russian linguists working languages routinely note difference russian whatever language describing seen probably dozens times russian grammars dictionaries various languages former empire barbara abbott noted reference missed chomsky _ current issues linguistic theory _ mouton 1964 p 40 notes say eating dinner cat dog also natural context lot respondents indicated similar difficulties languages kept track include french danish etc noted various respondents including frank gladney english cathy ball says older forms english sometimes use addressing human special thanks osten dahl first pointed define particular contexts question since many contexts many lgs allow neither alexis manaster ramer