LEADER 05503nam 2200601 450 001 9910466453203321 005 20200917021826.0 010 $a3-11-049300-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110496376 035 $a(CKB)3710000000865125 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4691440 035 $a(DE-B1597)469836 035 $a(OCoLC)959150774 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110496376 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4691440 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11268069 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL956128 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000865125 100 $a20161010h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aShifts and patterns in Maltese /$fedited by Gilbert Puech, Benjamin Saade 210 1$aBerlin, [Germany] ;$aBoston, [Massachusetts] :$cDe Gruyter Mouton,$d2016. 210 4$d©2016 215 $a1 online resource (402 pages) 225 1 $aStudia Typologica,$x1617-2957 ;$vVolume 19 311 $a3-11-049637-2 311 $a3-11-049563-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tFrom Maltese phonology to morphogenesis: A tribute to David Cohen -- $tMinimalist representation of Maltese sounds -- $tPhonological changes in Maltese: Evidence from onomastics -- $tLengthening as a discourse strategy in Maltese: Phonetic and phonological characteristics -- $tHow inflectional morphology meets subcategorization frame distinctions in Maltese -- $tThe origin of differential object marking in Maltese -- $tPolar interrogative -? in Maltese: Developments and antecedents -- $tOn short and long forms of personal pronouns in Maltese -- $tConnecting /t/ in Maltese numerals -- $tLanguages in contact -- $tMaltese loanword typology -- $tLanguage profiling: The weaving of Maltese and English in Maltese children?s conversations -- $tDigitizing the grammar and vocabulary of Maltese -- $tIndex of Authors -- $tIndex of Languages -- $tIndex of Subjects 330 $aThe linguistic description of Maltese has experienced an invigorating renaissance in the last ten years. As an Arabic language with a heavily mixed lexicon, Maltese serves as a laboratory for questions of linguistic variation on all linguistics levels, bilingualism, and language contact. This present volume showcases the variety of up-to-date linguistic research on Maltese. Starting with a tribute to the late David Cohen, influential French Semiticist, the remainder of the book is divided into three parts: Phonology, Morphology & Syntax, and Contact, Bilingualism & Technology. The papers in the phonology section comprise a minimalist representation of Maltese sounds from Gilbert Puech, a detailed account of phonological changes in Maltese based on onomastic data by Andrei Avram, and the description of lengthening as a discourse strategy by Alexandra Vella et. al. The section on morphology and syntax includes both synchronic and diachronic approaches to variation in Maltese. Maris Camilleri provides a detailed formal account of the paradigm in Maltese verbal inflection using a multidimensional model which accounts for subcategorization frame variation. Döhla's contribution traces the development of Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Maltese and draws parallels between similar phenomena in other varieties of Arabic. Wilmsen provides a detailed history of the polar interrogative marker ?? in Maltese. The article by Stolz & Saade investigates the variation between long and short independent pronouns in Maltese taking into account phonological factors, text-type, and grammatical person. Lucas & Spagnol tackle the variation of Maltese numerals with respect to phonological and morphological criteria in their study of the connecting /t/. The section on Contact, Bilingualism & Technology starts with Farrugia's description of variation in the assignment of gender for loanwords in Maltese. Comrie & Spagnol place the make-up of the borrowed part of the Maltese lexicon in a wider typology of loanwords in the world's languages. The study by Azzopardi-Alexander gives detailed insights into bilingual practices in Malta, placing usage patterns on a continuum between single language use and different code-switching and code-mixing practices. In the final paper, John Camilleri shows how the computational modelling of Maltese grammar has both theoretical and practical repercussions for the study and teaching of Maltese. As can be gathered from the wide variety of topics presented in this volume, Maltese Linguistics has developed from a subdiscipline of Arabic linguistics to a full academic subject in its own right. 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