Facets of ‘different’ in French: différent and autre

This paper tests on French Beck's claim that two distinct 'different' are involved in the production of the range of possible readings of the corresponding elements in German and English. French data do not support her claim of a split where German marks it via a lexical differentiation. Furthermore, they reveal that her proposal in terms of a comparison operator is also unable to account properly for the English data for which it was originally put forth.