OP stative verb ablaut?

[Koontz John E]

On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, R. Rankin wrote:
> I think one difficulty with the forms below is that "animacy" is a flexible
> concept, or, at least, a continuum on which nominals can reside.  It would be
> interesting to check with an extensive list of nouns.  'Wind, water', and
> 'snow', although not animate in the western sense, are still potentially
> "actants" in that they can cause damage, move objects, etc., so they may qualify
> for -akha on that basis.  On the other hand, animacy may not be involved at all.
> This is  a project in which the text collection(s) might show the way too.

But notice also

    S^oN'ge-we'?iN akha' ski'ga.
    Horse-harness  the   it's heavy.
    The horse harness is heavy.

I'll concede that 'horse harness' might be animate, but it seems less
likely to be so.