Shifts and patterns in Maltese / edited by Gilbert Puech, Benjamin Saade.
As an Arabic language with a heavily mixed Semitic-Romance-English lexicon, Maltese serves as a laboratory for linguistic research on questions of variation, typological classification, bilingualism, and language contact. In this book, studies on phonological, morphological, and syntactic variation...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter, Mouton,
[2016]
©2016 |
| Series: | Studia typologica ;
v. 19. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface ; From Maltese phonology to morphogenesis: A tribute to David Cohen ; Part I: Phonology ; Minimalist representation of Maltese sounds ; Phonological changes in Maltese: Evidence from onomastics.
- Lengthening as a discourse strategy in Maltese: Phonetic and phonological characteristics Part II: Morphology & Syntax ; How inflectional morphology meets subcategorization frame distinctions in Maltese ; The origin of differential object marking in Maltese.
- Polar interrogative -š in Maltese: Developments and antecedents On short and long forms of personal pronouns in Maltese ; Connecting /t/ in Maltese numerals ; Part III: Contact, Bilingualism & Technology ; Languages in contact ; Maltese loanword typology.
- Language profiling: The weaving of Maltese and English in Maltese children's conversations Digitizing the grammar and vocabulary of Maltese ; Index of Authors ; Index of Languages ; Index of Subjects.