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Introducing Maltese linguistics : selected papers from the 1st International Conference on Maltese Linguistics, Bremen, 18-20 October, 2007 /

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 w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: International Conference on Maltese Linguistics Bremen, Germany
Otros Autores: Comrie, Bernard, 1947-
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009.
Colección:Studies in language companion series ; v. 113.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Typology. Maltese and the World atlas of language structures / Bernard Comrie
  • Part II. Phonology. Vowel duration and Maltese 'gh' / Elizabeth Hume [and others]
  • 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.