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Other: Ambiguity, Constraints, and Change / edited by Patrícia Amaral.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
- Syntax and Semantics ; 45.
- Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2025
- Syntax and Semantics ; 45
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Languages and Linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (381 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Amaral, Patrícia Other: Ambiguity, Constraints, and Change
- ISBN:
- 9789004744196
- OCLC:
- 1553141351
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004744196 DOI
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