| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 422 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 113 |
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Studies in language companion series ; v. 113.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Part I. Typology. Maltese and the World atlas of language structures / Bernard Comrie -- Part II. Phonology. Vowel duration and Maltese 'gh' / Elizabeth Hume [and others] -- On Maltese prosody / Alexandra Vella -- Part III. Syntax. Topicalisation in Maltese / Albert Borg and Marie Azzopardi-Alexander -- A head-driven phrase structure grammar for Maltese / Stefan Müller -- Complex predicates in Maltese: from a neo-Arabic perspective / Utz Maas -- Splitting the verb chain in modern literary Maltese / Thomas Stolz -- "Pseudo-verbs": an analysis of non-verbal (co- )predication in Maltese / John Peterson -- Part IV. Lexicon and electronic resources. Compounding and adjective-noun compounds in Maltese / Ray Fabri -- Auditory and visual lexical decision in Maltese / Adam Ussishkin and Alina Twist -- Electronic language resources for Maltese / Michael Rosner -- Part V. Language change and contact. The vowel system of Cantilena : its historical development / Sumikazu Yoda -- The shaping of Maltese throughout the centuries: linguistic evidence from a diachronic-typological analysis / Laura Mori -- "Imma l-oriġinal oriġinali?": a noun-adjective opposition in some Maltese word-classes of Romance origin / Manwel Mifsud -- A different kind of gender problem: Maltese loanword gender from a typological perspective / Christel Stolz -- Terminology of Italian origin used in EU Maltese: a case of linguistic "Europeanisation"? / Sandro Caruana -- Part VI. Sociolinguistics. Diglossia: variation on a theme / Antoinette Camilleri Grima -- Maltese English: history of use, structural variation and sociolinguistic status / Lisa M. Bonnici. |
| Summary |
This collection of articles highlights a selection of on-going research projects. Phonological, morphological, and syntactic issues are addressed by international experts on Maltese. The diachronic development of Maltese, its age-long contact with Italo-Romance, and the present diglossic situation with co-official English are the topics of a variety of contributions to this volume. The repercussions that the promotion of Maltese to the status of official working language of the EU has on the Maltese lexicon are discussed. A project on the sociolinguistics of non-native Maltese-English is prese. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Maltese language -- Congresses.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Arabic.
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Maltese language. (OCoLC)fst01006851
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings. (OCoLC)fst01423772
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| Added Author |
Comrie, Bernard, 1947-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: International Conference on Maltese Linguistics (1st : 2007 : Bremen, Germany). Introducing Maltese linguistics. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009 9789027205803 9027205809 (DLC) 2009006191 (OCoLC)308177467 |
| ISBN |
9789027290298 (electronic bk.) |
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9027290296 (electronic bk.) |
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