Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Part I: Lexicon
5. The semantic structure of adjectives referring to the holiness in Maltese and Arabic languages 1
6. The lexical ta’ construction 23
7. Nunation from Arabic to Maltese 47
8. Part II: Syntax
9. The verb sequence V1+V2 in Maltese 81
10. Differential object indexing in Maltese – a corpus based pilot study 105
11. Part III: Morphosyntax
12. Arabic prepositions and their Maltese equivalents 133
13. On WH-PREPS. A contrastive grammatical sketch of Maltese fejn and Spanish donde/donde 163
14. Can frequency predict length? A crosslinguistic investigation of Zipf’s law for European adpositions 197
15. Part IV: Phonology
16. Regressive voicing assimilation in Maltese: Diachrony and typology 229
17. Index of Authors 263
18. Index of Languages 267
19. Index of Subjects 269