Maltese: Contemporary Changes and Historical Innovations

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2022

Maltese

Contemporary Changes and Historical Innovations

Edited by: Przemyslaw Turek and Julia Nintemann

Volume 30 in the series Studia Typologica [STTYP]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110783834

Overview
Contents

About this book

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 paper by Lucas and Spagnol discusses Maltese words containing an innovative final /n/.
Part II deals with the syntax of Maltese: Azzopardi’s paper focuses on a construction in Maltese which consists of a sequence of two or more finite verbs. Just and Čéplö present the first corpus based study of differential object indexing in Maltese.
In Part III on morphosyntax, Turek analyzes Arabic prepositions in Classical/Modern Standard Arabic and Arabic dialects and contrasts them with their Maltese equivalents. Stolz and Vorholt then analyze the structural and functional similarities and differences of spatial interrogatives in Maltese and Spanish. Vorholt then investigates the adpositions of sixteen European languages including Maltese and examines the relationship between length and frequency.
The volume is closed with Part IV on phonology and Avram’s paper, in which the diachrony of voicing assimilation in consonant clusters is reconstructed.

Author / Editor information

Przemysław Turek, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland; Julia Nintemann, Bremen University, Germany.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Part I: Lexicon
The semantic structure of adjectives referring to the holiness in Maltese and Arabic languages Sebastian Bednarowicz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The lexical ta’ construction Ray Fabri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Nunation from Arabic to Maltese Christopher Lucas and Michael Spagnol Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Part II: Syntax
The verb sequence V1+V2 in Maltese Kirsty Azzopardi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Differential object indexing in Maltese – a corpus based pilot study Erika Just and Slavomír Čéplö Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Part III: Morphosyntax
Arabic prepositions and their Maltese equivalents Przemysław Turek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
On WH-PREPS. A contrastive grammatical sketch of Maltese fejn and Spanish donde/donde Thomas Stolz and Maike Vorholt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Can frequency predict length? A crosslinguistic investigation of Zipf’s law for European adpositions Maike Vorholt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Part IV: Phonology
Regressive voicing assimilation in Maltese: Diachrony and typology Andrei A. Avram Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Index of Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Index of Languages Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Index of Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Scholars and Researchers interested in Maltese, Semitic Languages, Historical and Contrastive Linguistics,
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 270
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 18
- Tables: 34
Keywords: Maltese; Semitic Languages; Historical Linguistics; Contrastive Linguistics

eBook

Published: April 4, 2022
ISBN: 9783110783834

Hardcover

Published: April 18, 2022
ISBN: 9783110783766