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Other: Ambiguity, Constraints, and Change

Other: Ambiguity, Constraints, and Change

Amaral, Patrícia

Hardcover

Grammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 9004534954
ISBN13: 9789004534957
Publisher: Brill
Published: Dec 4 2025
Pages: 365
Weight: 1.55
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
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.

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