2021/08/25 by Yury Lander, Timur Maisak · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Linguistics and Cultural Studies #Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity #Linguistics and language evolution #Demonstrative #Grammaticalization #Numeral system #Contrast (vision) #Noun #Central asia #Linguistics #Expression (computer science) #Meaning (existential) #History #Geography #Computer science #Ancient history #Artificial intelligence #Philosophy #Epistemology
paper · doi:10.1163/1573384x-20210304
openalex publication_date 2021/08/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
Udi (East Caucasian) possesses several means of expressing the meaning “other”, namely (i) the combination of a (usually distal) demonstrative with a numeral (usually “one”), arguably calqued from Azerbaijani, (ii) the expression originating from a combination of a demonstrative with the noun “arm, side”, and (iii) borrowed adjectives. It is shown that the morphological properties of some of these expressions suggest a kind of grammaticalization. The semantic differences between the expressions mostly fit into the contrast between the types of “other” expressions proposed by Cinque (2015), but also display additional remarkable contrasts.