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Introducing Maltese Linguistics

Selected papers from the 1st International Conference on Maltese Linguistics, Bremen, 18–20 October, 2007
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2009

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This collection of articles highlights a selection of on-going research projects. Phonological, morphological, and syntactic issues are addressed by international experts on Maltese. The diachronic development of Maltese, its age-long contact with Italo-Romance, and the present diglossic situation with co-official English are the topics of a variety of contributions to this volume. The repercussions that the promotion of Maltese to the status of official working language of the EU has on the Maltese lexicon are discussed. A project on the sociolinguistics of non-native Maltese-English is presented. The problems posed by the creation of electronic resources for Maltese are equally focused upon. The papers amply demonstrate that Maltese Linguistics can stand on its own outside the traditional field of Oriental Studies.

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    Prelim pages

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    Table of contents

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    List of contributors

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    Preface

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  • Part I. Typology
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    Maltese and the World Atlas of Language Structures

    3
    Bernard Comrie
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  • Part II. Phonology
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    Vowel duration and Maltese 'għ'

    15
    Elizabeth Hume, Jennifer Venditti, Alexandra Vella and Samantha Gett
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    On Maltese prosody

    47
    Alexandra Vella
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  • Part III. Syntax
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    Topicalisation in Maltese

    71
    Albert Borg and Marie Azzopardi-Alexander
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    A head-driven phrase structure grammar for Maltese

    83
    Stefan Müller
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    Complex predicates in Maltese: From a neo-Arabic perspective

    113
    Utz Maas
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    Splitting the verb chain in modern literary Maltese

    133
    Thomas Stolz
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    "Pseudo-verbs": An analysis of non-verbal (co-)predication in Maltese

    181
    John Peterson
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  • Part IV. Lexicon and electronic resources
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    Compounding and adjective-noun compounds in Maltese

    207
    Ray Fabri
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    Auditory and visual lexical decision in Maltese

    233
    Adam Ussishkin and Alina Twist
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    Electronic language resources for Maltese

    251
    Michael Rosner
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  • Part V. Language change and contact
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    The Vowel system of Cantilena : Its historical development

    279
    Sumikazu Yoda
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    The shaping of Maltese throughout the centuries: Linguistic evidences from a diachronic-typological analysis

    291
    Laura Mori
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    "Imma l'oriġinal oriġinali?": A noun-adjective opposition in some Maltese word-classes of Romance origin

    309
    Manwel Mifsud
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    A different kind of gender problem: Maltese loan-word gender from a typological perspective

    321
    Christel Stolz
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    Terminology of Italian origin used in EU Maltese: A case of linguistic "Europeanisation"?

    355
    Sandro Caruana
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  • Part VI. Sociolinguistics
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    Diglossia: Variation on a theme

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    Antoinette Camilleri Grima
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    Maltese English: History of use, structural variation and sociolinguistic status

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    Lisa M. Bonnici
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    Index of authors

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    Index of languages

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    Index of subjects

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Theoretical linguistics; Afro-Asiatic languages; English linguistics
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