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Introducing Maltese linguistics : selected papers from the 1st International Conference on Maltese Linguistics, Bremen, 18-20 October, 2007

Title: Introducing Maltese linguistics : selected papers from the 1st International Conference on Maltese Linguistics, Bremen, 18-20 October, 2007 / edited by Bernard Comrie ... [et al.].
Author: International Conference on Maltese Linguistics (1st : 2007 : Bremen, Germany)
Publication: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009.

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Additional Authors

Comrie, Bernard, 1947-

Description

xi, 422 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 113

Uniform Title

Studies in language companion series ; v. 113.

Subject

Maltese language > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Part I. Typology. Maltese and the World atlas of language structures / Bernard Comrie -- Part II. Phonology. Vowel duration and Maltese 'gh' / Elizabeth Hume ... [et al.] -- On Maltese prosody / Alexandra Vella -- Part III. Syntax. Topicalisation in Maltese / Albert Borg & Marie Azzopardi-Alexander -- A head-driven phrase structure grammar for Maltese / Stefan Müller -- Complex predicates in Maltese: from a neo-Arabic perspective / Utz Maas -- Splitting the verb chain in modern literary Maltese / Thomas Stolz -- "Pseudo-verbs": an analysis of non-verbal (co-)predication in Maltese / John Peterson -- Part IV. Lexicon and electronic resources. Compounding and adjective-noun compounds in Maltese / Ray Fabri -- Auditory and visual lexical decision in Maltese / Adam Ussishkin and Alina Twist -- Electronic language resources for Maltese / Michael Rosner -- Part V. Language change and contact. The vowel system of Cantilena : its historical development / Sumikazu Yoda -- The shaping of Maltese throughout the centuries: linguistic evidence from a diachronic-typological analysis / Laura Mori -- "Imma l-oriġinal oriġinali?": a noun-adjective opposition in some Maltese word-classes of Romance origin / Manwel Mifsud -- A different kind of gender problem: Maltese loanword gender from a typological perspective / Christel Stolz -- Terminology of Italian origin used in EU Maltese: a case of linguistic "Europeanisation"? / Sandro Caruana -- Part VI. Sociolinguistics. Diglossia: variation on a theme / Antoinette Camilleri Grima -- Maltese English: history of use, structural variation and sociolinguistic status / Lisa M. Bonnici.

Call Number

JFE 09-4086

ISBN

9789027205803 (hb : alk. paper)
9027205809 (hb : alk. paper)

LCCN

2009006191

OCLC

308177467

Conference

International Conference on Maltese Linguistics (1st : 2007 : Bremen, Germany)

Title

Introducing Maltese linguistics : selected papers from the 1st International Conference on Maltese Linguistics, Bremen, 18-20 October, 2007 / edited by Bernard Comrie ... [et al.].

Imprint

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009.

Series

Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 113

Studies in language companion series ; v. 113.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Comrie, Bernard, 1947-

Research Call Number

JFE 09-4086

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