Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Preface ix
5. Part I. Typology
6. Maltese and the World Atlas of Language Structures 3
7. Part II. Phonology
8. Vowel duration and Maltese 'għ' 15
9. On Maltese prosody 47
10. Part III. Syntax
11. Topicalisation in Maltese 71
12. A head-driven phrase structure grammar for Maltese 83
13. Complex predicates in Maltese: From a neo-Arabic perspective 113
14. Splitting the verb chain in modern literary Maltese 133
15. "Pseudo-verbs": An analysis of non-verbal (co-)predication in Maltese 181
16. Part IV. Lexicon and electronic resources
17. Compounding and adjective-noun compounds in Maltese 207
18. Auditory and visual lexical decision in Maltese 233
19. Electronic language resources for Maltese 251
20. Part V. Language change and contact
21. The Vowel system of Cantilena : Its historical development 279
22. The shaping of Maltese throughout the centuries: Linguistic evidences from a diachronic-typological analysis 291
23. "Imma l'oriġinal oriġinali?": A noun-adjective opposition in some Maltese word-classes of Romance origin 309
24. A different kind of gender problem: Maltese loan-word gender from a typological perspective 321
25. Terminology of Italian origin used in EU Maltese: A case of linguistic "Europeanisation"? 355
26. Part VI. Sociolinguistics
27. Diglossia: Variation on a theme 379
28. Maltese English: History of use, structural variation and sociolinguistic status 393
29. Index of authors 415
30. Index of languages 419
31. Index of subjects 421