Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Preface 7
4. Historical Studies
5. A note on the dating of ħ, għ and x in Maltese 13
6. The Sfaxi (Tunisian) element in Maltese 23
7. Italian loanwords in Maltese and the vocabulary of “Levant Italian” 45
8. Phonological Studies
9. Prime constituents of Maltese sounds 61
10. The role of silence in spoken Maltese: durational and distributional characteristics of breaks and pauses 89
11. Morphological Studies
12. Syncretism in Maltese: the case of the dual 117
13. Fixing the broken plural in Maltese 129
14. Syntactic Studies
15. The Maltese restrictive relative clause 161
16. An overview of object reduplication in Maltese 201
17. Indefinites and negative concord in Maltese: towards a dynamic account 225
18. It-tlieta li aħna = the three of us. Numerically quantified person reference 249
19. Maltese in the Digital Age
20. Preparation of a free-running text corpus for Maltese concatenative speech synthesis 297
21. Language used in Internet chatting and its effect on spelling 319
22. List of Contributors 341
23. Index of Authors 345
24. Index of Languages 351
25. Index of Subjects 353