Loan verbs in Maltese : : a descriptive and comparative study /

Loan verbs in Maltese : : a descriptive and comparative study / / by Manwel Mifsud.

Severed from its parent language and from the other vernaculars, as well as from the Islamic culture and religion, the peripheral Arabic dialect of Malta has for the last nine centuries been exposed to large-scale contact with Medieval Sicilian, Italian and, later, English. Modern Maltese thus incor...

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Superior document:Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 21
VerfasserIn:
Mifsud, Manwel,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, New York ;, Köln, [Germany] : : E.J. Brill,, 1995.
©1995
Year of Publication:1995
Language:English
Maltese
Series:Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 21.
Physical Description:1 online resource (341 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • INTRODUCTION
  • THE BACKGROUND
  • TYPE A VERBS: FULL INTEGRATION TO SEMITIC MALTESE SOUND VERBS
  • TYPE B VERBS: FULL INTEGRATION TO SEMITIC MALTESE WEAK-FINAL VERBS
  • TYPE C VERBS: UNDIGESTED ROMANCE STEMS WITH A WEAK-FINAL CONWGATION
  • TYPE D VERBS: THE INTEGRATION OF UNDIGESTED ENGLISH STEMS
  • CONCLUSIONS AND FINDINGS
  • INFLEXIONAL PARADIGMS
  • CORPORA
  • THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF WEAK-FINAL VERBS IN SEMITIC MALTESE
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • STUDIES IN SEMITIC LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS.

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