Maltese Linguistics on the Danube /

Maltese Linguistics on the Danube / / ed. by Slavomír Čéplö, Jaroslav Drobný.

This volume brings together a dozen papers on various aspects of Maltese, relevant also for the study of related languages and general descriptive and typological linguistics.The diachronic section begins with an analysis of the place of Maltese in its North African context (Souag). Avram and van Pu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Amaira, Mark,
Avram, Andrei A.,
Azzopardi-Alexander, Marie,
Borg, Albert,
Ellul, Leanne,
Fabri, Ray,
Galea, Luke,
Gatt, Kurstin,
Levkovych, Nataliya,
Lucas, Christopher,
Putten, Marijn van,
Schmidt, Emeli,
Souag, Lameen,
Stolz, Thomas,
Vorholt, Maike,
Witt, Nele,
Yoda, Sumikazu,
Čéplö, Slavomír,
HerausgeberIn:
Drobný, Jaroslav,
Čéplö, Slavomír,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Studia Typologica [STTYP] : Beihefte / Supplements STUF - Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung / Language Typology and Universals , 24
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 322 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Part I: Historical Linguistics
  • Maltese and North African linguistics: Common roots and areal divergence
  • The diachrony of word-final obstruent devoicing in Maltese
  • The history of the Maltese short vowels
  • An observation on the ḥāl construction in Maltese
  • Minsel. An etymological database for lexemes of Arabic origin in Maltese
  • Part II: Syntax
  • Will it agree or not? Syntactic overgeneralization leading to agreement mismatches in Maltese
  • Argument extension in Maltese
  • Lanqas, negative concord and predicate negation in Maltese
  • From variation towards the grammar of Maltese prepositions – first steps
  • Form and behavior of Maltese prepositions – A usage-based approach
  • Part III: Phonology
  • To be or not to be an affricate – affricated stops in Maltese
  • Revisiting the definite article in Maltese
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Languages
  • Index of Subjects

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