Advances in Maltese Linguistics / / ed. by Benjamin Saade, Mauro Tosco.

This volume is a collection of up-to-date articles on Maltese on all linguistic levels, demonstrating the variety of topics Maltese has to offer for linguists of all specializations. Two diachronic studies discuss the early contact of Maltese and Sicilian Arabic (Avram) and the possible lexical infl...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Studia Typologica [STTYP] : Beihefte / Supplements STUF - Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung / Language Typology and Universals , 21
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Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 274 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maltese linguistics: What is new?
  • Part 1: New looks into the past
  • On the phonology of Sicilian Arabic and early Maltese
  • Aspects of the comparison between Maltese, Mediterranean Lingua Franca and the Occitan-Catalan linguistic group (13th–15th centuries)
  • Part 2: Maltese, and just Maltese
  • Modifiers and complements within the Maltese verb sequence
  • Focus particles in Maltese: A corpus survey
  • On prepositional ellipsis and the factors which block its application in Maltese
  • Part 3: Beyond Maltese, now and then
  • Verbal negation with muš in Maltese and Eastern Mediterranean Arabics
  • Maltese kiteb vs. Tunisian (Sūsa) ktib
  • The phonetic study of speakers along the Maltese-English continuum
  • The visibility and salience of Maltese in bilingual Malta’s linguistic landscape
  • The myth of the mixed languages
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Languages
  • Index of Subjects