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Maltese
Contemporary Changes and Historical Innovations
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2022
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This volume features nine articles, covering various aspects of Maltese linguistics:
Part I, mostly dedicated to the Maltese lexicon, opens with Bednarowicz’s comparison of Maltese and Arabic adjectives. Fabri then categorizes various types of constructions involving the preposition ta’ ‘of’. The paper by Lucas and Spagnol discusses Maltese words containing an innovative final /n/.
Part II deals with the syntax of Maltese: Azzopardi’s paper focuses on a construction in Maltese which consists of a sequence of two or more finite verbs. Just and Čéplö present the first corpus based study of differential object indexing in Maltese.
In Part III on morphosyntax, Turek analyzes Arabic prepositions in Classical/Modern Standard Arabic and Arabic dialects and contrasts them with their Maltese equivalents. Stolz and Vorholt then analyze the structural and functional similarities and differences of spatial interrogatives in Maltese and Spanish. Vorholt then investigates the adpositions of sixteen European languages including Maltese and examines the relationship between length and frequency.
The volume is closed with Part IV on phonology and Avram’s paper, in which the diachrony of voicing assimilation in consonant clusters is reconstructed.
Part I, mostly dedicated to the Maltese lexicon, opens with Bednarowicz’s comparison of Maltese and Arabic adjectives. Fabri then categorizes various types of constructions involving the preposition ta’ ‘of’. The paper by Lucas and Spagnol discusses Maltese words containing an innovative final /n/.
Part II deals with the syntax of Maltese: Azzopardi’s paper focuses on a construction in Maltese which consists of a sequence of two or more finite verbs. Just and Čéplö present the first corpus based study of differential object indexing in Maltese.
In Part III on morphosyntax, Turek analyzes Arabic prepositions in Classical/Modern Standard Arabic and Arabic dialects and contrasts them with their Maltese equivalents. Stolz and Vorholt then analyze the structural and functional similarities and differences of spatial interrogatives in Maltese and Spanish. Vorholt then investigates the adpositions of sixteen European languages including Maltese and examines the relationship between length and frequency.
The volume is closed with Part IV on phonology and Avram’s paper, in which the diachrony of voicing assimilation in consonant clusters is reconstructed.
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Przemysław Turek, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland; Julia Nintemann, Bremen University, Germany.
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Preface
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VII - Part I: Lexicon
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The semantic structure of adjectives referring to the holiness in Maltese and Arabic languages
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The lexical ta’ construction
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Nunation from Arabic to Maltese
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The verb sequence V1+V2 in Maltese
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Differential object indexing in Maltese – a corpus based pilot study
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Arabic prepositions and their Maltese equivalents
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On WH-PREPS. A contrastive grammatical sketch of Maltese fejn and Spanish donde/donde
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Can frequency predict length? A crosslinguistic investigation of Zipf’s law for European adpositions
197 - Part IV: Phonology
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Regressive voicing assimilation in Maltese: Diachrony and typology
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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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eBook published on:
April 4, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9783110783834
Hardcover published on:
April 18, 2022
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9783110783766
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Front matter:
8
Main content:
270
Illustrations:
18
Tables:
34
Audience(s) for this book
Scholars and Researchers interested in Maltese, Semitic Languages, Historical and Contrastive Linguistics,
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