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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825326803321

Autore

Borg Albert J.

Titolo

Maltese / / Albert Borg and Marie Azzopardi-Alexander

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1997

ISBN

1-136-85528-9

0-203-19260-5

1-299-28534-1

1-136-85521-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (411 p.)

Collana

Descriptive grammars

Altri autori (Persone)

Azzopardi-AlexanderMarie <1952->

Disciplina

492/.77

Soggetti

Maltese language - Grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-384) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Maltese; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Conventions; Abbreviations; 1. Syntax; 1.1. General questions; 1.1.1. Sentence types; 1.1.2. Subordination; 1.1.2.2. Noun clauses; 1.1.2.3. Adjective clauses; 1.1.2.4. Adverb clauses; 1.2. Structural questions; 1.2.1. Internal structure of the sentence; 1.2.1.1. Copular sentences; 1.2.1.2. Verbal sentences; 1.2.1.3. Adverbials; 1.2.2. Adjective phrases; 1.2.3. Adverbial phrase; 1.2.4. Prepositional phrases; 1.2.5. Noun phrase; 1.3. Coordination; 1.4. Negation; 1.5. Anaphora; 1.6. Reflexives; 1.7. Reciprocals

1.8. Comparison1.9. Equatives; 1.10. Possession; 1.11. Emphasis; 1.12. Topic; 1.13. Heavy Shift; 1.14. Other movement processes; 1.15. Minor sentence-types; 1.16. Operational definitions for word-classes; 2. Morphology; 2.1. Inflection; 2.1.1. Noun-inflection; 2.1.2. Pronouns; 2.1.3. Verb morphology; 2.1.4. Adjectives; 2.1.5. Prepositions; 2.1.6. Numerals/quantifiers; 2.1.7. Adverbs; 2.1.8. Clitics; 2.2. Derivational Morphology; 3. Phonology; 3.1. Phonological units (segmental); 3.2. Phonotactics; 3.3. Suprasegmentals; 3.4. Morphophonology (segmental); 3.5. Morphophonology (suprasegmental)

Table 27. English loan verbs

Sommario/riassunto

Focusing primarily on Standard Maltese, the authors clarify many areas which, until now, remain undefined, with emphasis on syntax and



intonation. English loanwords continue to find their way into Standard Maltese, especially as the Maltese inhabitants become increasingly bilingual, and the variations are studied, as well as their morphological behavior. The book describes the syntactic, morphological and phonological structure of Maltese as one integrated linguistic system composed of different strands (Arabic, Romance and English).