Perspectives on Maltese linguistics / Albert Borg, Sandro Caruana, Alexandra Vella (eds.).

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Borg, Albert J., editor.

Caruana, Sandro, editor.

Vella, Alexandra, editor.

Conference Name:

International Conference on Maltese Linguistics (3rd : 2011 : University of Malta), issuing body.

Series:

Studia typologica ; v. 14.

Studia typologica, 1617-2957 ; volume 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maltese language--Congresses.

Maltese language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Akademie Verlag, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The contributions included in this collection present different perspectives on various aspects of Maltese Linguistics, thereby enriching a field which has been attracting considerably greater interest in recent years than was the case in the past. The papers focus on the Maltese language itself as well as on Maltese in relation to other languages. They provide a picture of Maltese mainly from a synchronic perspective, descriptions ranging from in depth analyses of morphological and syntactic features to contributions on the lexicon, corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics. A number of papers dealing with diachronic considerations are also included. The topics dealt with in this volume show not only that Maltese is the object of research from a variety of perspectives but also that scholars with diverse backgrounds and of different nationalities are studying this language, thus providing an enriching body of knowledge, including findings of interest to general linguistics and various other fields in the humanities. Der vorliegende Band enthält Beiträge mit vielfältigen Herangehensweisen zu unterschiedlichen Aspekten der maltesischen Sprachwissenschaft und erweitert dadurch den Blick auf eine Disziplin, die in den letzten Jahren deutlich mehr Interesse findet als das in der Vergangenheit der Fall war. Der Fokus wird in den einzelnen Beiträgen sowohl auf die maltesische Sprache an sich als auch auf den Sprachkontakt von Maltesisch mit anderen Sprachen gerichtet. Neben synchronen Untersuchungen, die morphologische und syntaktische Eigenschaften sowie lexikalische, korpus- und soziolinguistische Aspekte von Maltesisch eingehend beleuchten, finden sich Analysen mit vorwiegend diachroner Blickrichtung. Die thematische Vielfalt des vorliegenden Bandes, die aus den unterschiedlichen He-rangehensweisen der beteiligten Wissenschaftler unterschiedlicher Nationalität und mit unterschiedlichem Forschungshintergrund resultiert, erweitert nicht nur den Wissensbestand der maltesischen Linguistik, sondern kann auch bereichernde Erkenntnisse für die Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft sowie für andere Zweige der Geisteswissenschaften liefern.

Contents:

Front matter

Table of Contents

Preface

Historical Studies

A note on the dating of ħ, għ and x in Maltese / Cassola, Arnold

The Sfaxi (Tunisian) element in Maltese / Zammit, Martin R.

Italian loanwords in Maltese and the vocabulary of "Levant Italian" / BAGLIONI, DANIELE

Phonological Studies

Prime constituents of Maltese sounds / Puech, Gilbert

The role of silence in spoken Maltese: durational and distributional characteristics of breaks and pauses / Vella, Alexandra / Spagnol, Michael / Grech, Sarah / Chetcuti, Flavia

Morphological Studies

Syncretism in Maltese: the case of the dual / Gauci, Phyllisienne / Camilleri, Maris

Fixing the broken plural in Maltese / Mayer, Thomas / Spagnol, Michael / Schönhuber, Florian

Syntactic Studies

The Maltese restrictive relative clause / Camilleri, Maris

An overview of object reduplication in Maltese / Čéplö, Slavomír "Bulbul"

Indefinites and negative concord in Maltese: towards a dynamic account / Lucas, Christopher

It-tlieta li aħna = the three of us. Numerically quantified person reference / STOLZ, THOMAS

Maltese in the Digital Age

Preparation of a free-running text corpus for Maltese concatenative speech synthesis / Borg, Mark / Bugeja, Keith / Vella, Colin / Mangion, Gordon / Gafà, Carmel

Language used in Internet chatting and its effect on spelling / Vella, Lara

List of Contributors

Index of Authors

Index of Languages

Index of Subjects

Notes:

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Maltese Linguistics, Malta, April 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783050065144

3050065141

OCLC:

885390366