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Other: Ambiguity, Constraints, and Change
Series: - Syntax and Semantics, Volume: 45
Volume Editor:
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.
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Investigating other at the Interface of Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics
Patrícia Amaral
2 A protocol for the Syntax of ‘Other’ in Indefinite Nominal Expressions across Romance Languages
Laura Brugè and Giuliana Giusti
3 Exclusive and Inclusive Inferences under Non-identity: The Case of alos (Other/Else) in Greek
Despina Oikonomou
4 On the Semantics and Pragmatics of ‘(An)other’ in Finnish: Comparing toinen and muu
Elsi Kaiser
5 Latin ALTER and ALIUS
Alessandra Bertocchi and Anna Orlandini
6 The Diachrony of Spanish otro
Manuel Delicado Cantero and Julia Pozas Loyo
7 Altro che/Altrochè in Italian: Between Otherness and Intensity
Franck Floricic
8 Investigating ‘Other’ In Cross-Linguistic Perspective: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges
Chiara Gianollo and Caterina Mauri
9 Disambiguating altro: A View from Another Language
Patrícia Amaral, Jeremy Dickinson and Sandra Kübler
10 One Meaning and the Other: A Corpus-Based Study of the Polysemy of altro in Italian
Fabio Del Prete and Fabio Montermini
11 There Must Be 50 Ways to Say ‘Another’
Anna Berge
Index of Languages
Index of Subjects
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Investigating other at the Interface of Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics
Patrícia Amaral
Part 1 Formal approaches
2 A protocol for the Syntax of ‘Other’ in Indefinite Nominal Expressions across Romance Languages
Laura Brugè and Giuliana Giusti
3 Exclusive and Inclusive Inferences under Non-identity: The Case of alos (Other/Else) in Greek
Despina Oikonomou
4 On the Semantics and Pragmatics of ‘(An)other’ in Finnish: Comparing toinen and muu
Elsi Kaiser
Part 2 Diachronic Approaches
5 Latin ALTER and ALIUS
Alessandra Bertocchi and Anna Orlandini
6 The Diachrony of Spanish otro
Manuel Delicado Cantero and Julia Pozas Loyo
7 Altro che/Altrochè in Italian: Between Otherness and Intensity
Franck Floricic
Part 3 Corpus-Based and Typological Approaches
8 Investigating ‘Other’ In Cross-Linguistic Perspective: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges
Chiara Gianollo and Caterina Mauri
9 Disambiguating altro: A View from Another Language
Patrícia Amaral, Jeremy Dickinson and Sandra Kübler
10 One Meaning and the Other: A Corpus-Based Study of the Polysemy of altro in Italian
Fabio Del Prete and Fabio Montermini
11 There Must Be 50 Ways to Say ‘Another’
Anna Berge
Index of Languages
Index of Subjects
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