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

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xi, 422 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 492.7/9
• Soggetto topico: Maltese language; Maltese language - Grammar
• Altri autori: ComrieBernard <1947->
• 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Introducing Maltese linguistics
• ISBN: 1-282-16996-3; 9786612169960; 90-272-9029-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813915603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in language companion series ; ; v. 113.