36.3691, Books: Other: Ambiguity, Constraints, and Change: Amaral (ed.) (2025)

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Subject: 36.3691, Books: Other: Ambiguity, Constraints, and Change: Amaral (ed.) (2025)

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Date: 27-Nov-2025
From: Rosanna Woensdregt [rosanna.woensdregt at degruyterbrill.com]
Subject: Other: Ambiguity, Constraints, and Change: Amaral (ed.) (2025)


Title: Other: Ambiguity, Constraints, and Change
Series Title: Syntax and Semantics
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: De Gruyter Brill
           https://www.degruyterbrill.com/?changeLang=en
Book URL: https://brill.com/display/title/64045

Editor(s): Patrícia Amaral

Hardback ISBN: 978-90-04-53495-7
E-Book ISBN: 978-90-04-74419-6

Abstract:

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.

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Language Family(ies): Aleut
                      Finnic
                      German
                      Greek subgroup
                      Romance

Written In: English (eng)



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