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/creator | International Conference on Maltese Linguistics |
| Other author | Comrie, Bernard, 1947- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., |
| Description | xi, 422 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Series | Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 113 Studies in language companion series ; v. 113. ^A654669 |
| 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-origi̇nal 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2009006191 |
| ISBN | 9789027205803 (hb : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9027205809 (hb : alk. paper) |
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