Other: Ambiguity, Constraints, and Change
Seiten
2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-53495-7 (ISBN)
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-53495-7 (ISBN)
This book is the first to explore the properties of the cross-linguistic counterparts of the word other. It investigates the possible ambiguity between non-identity and additive meanings, interpretive and contextual factors in disambiguation, lexicalization patterns across languages, and historical developments.
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.
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.
Patrícia Amaral is Professor of Hispanic and General Linguistics at Indiana University. She works in theoretical semantics and pragmatics (typologies of meaning, aspect, modality), as well as on syntactic and semantic change in the Romance languages.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.11.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Syntax and Semantics ; 45 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-53495-4 / 9004534954 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-53495-7 / 9789004534957 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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