Other: Ambiguity, Constraints, and Change /

Other: Ambiguity, Constraints, and Change /

This book is the first to explore the properties of words across languages that correspond to English other . When can Italian altro mean 'different' or 'additional'? And why do these meanings often lexicalize together? How can we explain that cross-linguistically, such words may...

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Other Authors: Amaral, Patrícia (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Series: Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Syntax and Semantics ; 45.

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Languages and Linguistics.

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Call Number: P57.I4

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Summary:This book is the first to explore the properties of words across languages that correspond to English other . When can Italian altro mean 'different' or 'additional'? And why do these meanings often lexicalize together? How can we explain that cross-linguistically, such words may also mean 'second' or 'remainder'? This book brings together data from multiple language families including Eskaleut, Finno-Ugric, Germanic, and Romance, to address these questions. It presents analytic, typological, corpus-based, and computational approaches to investigate linguistic constraints and pragmatic factors that play a role in disambiguation, as well as historical developments that such words undergo.
Physical Description:1 online resource (300 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004744196