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Introducing Maltese linguistics : selected papers from the 1st International Conference on Maltese Linguistics, Bremen, 18-20 October, 2007 / edited by Bernard Comrie [and others].

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in language companion series ; v. 113.Publication details: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 422 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789027290298
  • 9027290296
  • 1282169963
  • 9781282169968
  • 9786612169960
  • 6612169966
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Introducing Maltese linguistics.DDC classification:
  • 492.7/9 22
LOC classification:
  • PJ6891 .I58 2007eb
Online resources:
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 & 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-origi̇nal 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.
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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 & 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-origi̇nal 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.

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.

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