Introducing Maltese linguistics
Subtitle: selected papers from the 1st International Conference on Maltese Linguistics, Bremen, 17-19 October, 2007
By: edited by Bernard Comrie ... [et al.].
Contributors: Comrie, Bernard, 1947-
Series: Studies in language companion series -- v. 113
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789027205803
Subjects: Maltese language -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of contributors; title: Preface; title: Part I. typology: Maltese and the world atlas of language structures / Bernard Comrie; title: Part II. Phonology: Vowel duration and Maltese 'gh' / Elizabeth Hume, Jennifer Venditti, Sandra Vella & Samantha Gett; title: On Maltese prosody / Alexandra Vella; title: Part III. Syntax: Topicalisation in Maltese / Albert Borg & Marie Azzopardi-Alexander; title: A Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar for Maltese / Stefan Müller; title: Complex predicates in Maltese: From a Neo-Arabic perspective / Utz Maas; title: Splitting the verb chain in modern literary Maltese / Thomas Stolz; title: 'Pseudo-verbs': An analysis of non-verbal (co-)predication in Maltese / John Peterson; title: Part IV. Lexicon and electronic resources: Compounding and adjective-noun compounds in Maltese / Ray Fabri; title: Auditory and visual lexical decision in Maltese / Adam Ussishkin & Alina Twist; title: Electronic language resources for Maltese / Michael Rosner; title: Part V. Language change and contact: The vowel system of Cantilena / Sumikazu Yoda; title: The shaping of Maltese throughout the centuries: Linguistic evidence from a diachronic-typological analysis / Laura Mori; title: 'Imma l-original originali?': A noun-adjective opposition in some Maltese word-classes of Romance origin / Manwel Mifsud; title: A different kind of gender problem: Maltese loanword gender from a typological perspective / Christel Stolz; title: Terminology of Italian origin used in EU Maltese: A case of linguistic 'Europeanisation'? / Sandro Caruana; title: Diglossia: Variation on a theme / Antoinette Camilleri Grima; title: Part VI. Sociolinguistics: Maltese English: History of use, structural variation and sociolinguistic status / Lisa M. Bonnici.