Introducing Maltese linguistics : selected papers from the 1st International Conference on Maltese Linguistics, Bremen, 18-20 October, 2007 / edited by Bernard Comrie ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

International Conference on Maltese Linguistics, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Comrie, Bernard, 1947-

Conference Name:

International Conference on Maltese Linguistics (1st : 2007 : Bremen, Germany)

International Conference on Maltese Linguistics

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; v. 113.

Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 113

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maltese language--Congresses.

Maltese language.

Maltese language--Grammar--Congresses.

Physical Description:

xi, 422 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612169960

9781282169968

1282169963

9789027290298

9027290296

OCLC:

436094068