Perspectives on Maltese Linguistics / / ed. by Albert Borg, Alexandra Vella, Sandro Caruana.

The contributions included in this collection present different perspectives on various aspects of Maltese Linguistics, thereby enriching a field which has been attracting considerably greater interest in recent years than was the case in the past. The papers focus on the Maltese language itself as...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin : : Akademie Verlag, , [2014]
©2013
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Studia Typologica [STTYP] : Beihefte / Supplements STUF - Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung / Language Typology and Universals , 14
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Physical Description:1 online resource (354 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Historical Studies
  • A note on the dating of ħ, għ and x in Maltese
  • The Sfaxi (Tunisian) element in Maltese
  • Italian loanwords in Maltese and the vocabulary of “Levant Italian”
  • Phonological Studies
  • Prime constituents of Maltese sounds
  • The role of silence in spoken Maltese: durational and distributional characteristics of breaks and pauses
  • Morphological Studies
  • Syncretism in Maltese: the case of the dual
  • Fixing the broken plural in Maltese
  • Syntactic Studies
  • The Maltese restrictive relative clause
  • An overview of object reduplication in Maltese
  • Indefinites and negative concord in Maltese: towards a dynamic account
  • It-tlieta li aħna = the three of us. Numerically quantified person reference
  • Maltese in the Digital Age
  • Preparation of a free-running text corpus for Maltese concatenative speech synthesis
  • Language used in Internet chatting and its effect on spelling
  • List of Contributors
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Languages
  • Index of Subjects