Maltese : : Contemporary Changes and Historical Innovations / / ed. by Przemyslaw Turek, Julia Nintemann.

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 pap...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Studia Typologica [STTYP] : Beihefte / Supplements STUF - Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung / Language Typology and Universals , 30
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 270 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Part I: Lexicon
  • The semantic structure of adjectives referring to the holiness in Maltese and Arabic languages
  • The lexical ta’ construction
  • Nunation from Arabic to Maltese
  • Part II: Syntax
  • The verb sequence V1+V2 in Maltese
  • Differential object indexing in Maltese – a corpus based pilot study
  • Part III: Morphosyntax
  • Arabic prepositions and their Maltese equivalents
  • On WH-PREPS. A contrastive grammatical sketch of Maltese fejn and Spanish donde/donde
  • Can frequency predict length? A crosslinguistic investigation of Zipf’s law for European adpositions
  • Part IV: Phonology
  • Regressive voicing assimilation in Maltese: Diachrony and typology
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Languages
  • Index of Subjects