Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Maltese linguistics: What is new? vii
4. Part 1: New looks into the past
5. On the phonology of Sicilian Arabic and early Maltese 3
6. Aspects of the comparison between Maltese, Mediterranean Lingua Franca and the Occitan-Catalan linguistic group (13th–15th centuries) 39
7. Part 2: Maltese, and just Maltese
8. Modifiers and complements within the Maltese verb sequence 67
9. Focus particles in Maltese: A corpus survey 87
10. On prepositional ellipsis and the factors which block its application in Maltese 121
11. Part 3: Beyond Maltese, now and then
12. Verbal negation with muš in Maltese and Eastern Mediterranean Arabics 151
13. Maltese kiteb vs. Tunisian (Sūsa) ktib 173
14. The phonetic study of speakers along the Maltese-English continuum 193
15. The visibility and salience of Maltese in bilingual Malta’s linguistic landscape 225
16. The myth of the mixed languages 245
17. Index of Authors 267
18. Index of Languages 271
19. Index of Subjects 273