04610nam 2200673Ia 450 991095452670332120200520144314.09786612169960978128216996812821699639789027290298902729029610.1075/slcs.113(CKB)1000000000765616(SSID)ssj0000182303(PQKBManifestationID)11164448(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000182303(PQKBWorkID)10171567(PQKB)10176767(Au-PeEL)EBL622712(CaPaEBR)ebr10314066(CaONFJC)MIL216996(OCoLC)436094068(MiAaPQ)EBC622712(DE-B1597)721626(DE-B1597)9789027290298(EXLCZ)99100000000076561620090219d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrIntroducing Maltese linguistics selected papers from the 1st International Conference on Maltese Linguistics, Bremen, 18-20 October, 2007 /edited by Bernard Comrie ... [et al.]1st ed.Amsterdam ;Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub. Co.c2009xi, 422 p. illStudies in language companion series,0165-7763 ;v. 113Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9789027205803 9027205809 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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.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 presented. The problems posed by the creation of electronic resources for Maltese are equally focused upon. The papers amply demonstrate that Maltese Linguistics can stand on its own outside the traditional field of Oriental Studies.Studies in language companion series ;v. 113.Maltese languageCongressesMaltese languageGrammarCongressesMaltese languageMaltese languageGrammar492.7/9Comrie Bernard1947-152014International Conference on Maltese LinguisticsMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910954526703321Introducing Maltese linguistics4346008UNINA