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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778083403321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009

ISBN

1-282-16996-3

9786612169960

90-272-9029-6

Descrizione fisica

xi, 422 p. : ill

Collana

Studies in language companion series, , 0165-7763 ; ; v. 113

Altri autori (Persone)

ComrieBernard <1947->

Disciplina

492.7/9

Soggetti

Maltese language

Maltese language - Grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. Typology. Maltese and the World atlas of language structures / Bernard Comrie -- Part II. Phonology. Vowel duration and Maltese 'gh' / Elizabeth Hume ... [et al.] -- 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.