Comrie / Fabri / Hume Introducing Maltese Linguistics

Selected papers from the 1st International Conference on Maltese Linguistics, Bremen, 18–20 October, 2007
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-272-9029-8
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 113, 438 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Language Companion Series

This collection of articles highlights a selection of on-going research projects. Phonological, morphological, and syntactic issues are addressed by international experts on Maltese. The diachronic development of Maltese, its age-long contact with Italo-Romance, and the present diglossic situation with co-official English are the topics of a variety of contributions to this volume. The repercussions that the promotion of Maltese to the status of official working language of the EU has on the Maltese lexicon are discussed. A project on the sociolinguistics of non-native Maltese-English is presented. The problems posed by the creation of electronic resources for Maltese are equally focused upon. The papers amply demonstrate that Maltese Linguistics can stand on its own outside the traditional field of Oriental Studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Comrie, Bernard

Fabri, Ray

Hume, Elizabeth

Mifsud, Manwel

Stolz, Thomas

Vanhove, Martine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of contributors
Preface
Part I. Typology
Maltese and the World Atlas of Language Structures
Bernard Comrie
Part II. Phonology
Vowel duration and Maltese 'gh'
Elizabeth Hume, Jennifer Venditti, Alexandra Vella and Samantha Gett
On Maltese prosody
Alexandra Vella
Part III. Syntax
Topicalisation in Maltese
Albert Borg and 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 evidences from a diachronic-typological analysis
Laura Mori
"Imma l'original originali?": A noun-adjective opposition in some Maltese word-classes of Romance origin
Manwel Mifsud
A different kind of gender problem: Maltese loan-word 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
Index of authors
Index of languages
Index of subjects