Maltese Linguistics on the Danube / Slavomír Čéplö, Jaroslav Drobný.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Drobný, Jaroslav, Editor.

Čéplö, Slavomír, Editor.

Series:

Studia Typologica ; 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maltese language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This volume brings together a dozen papers on various aspects of Maltese, relevant also for the study of related languages and general descriptive and typological linguistics.The diachronic section begins with an analysis of the place of Maltese in its North African context (Souag). Avram and van Putten then provide analyses of the development of Maltese phonological inventory, the former discussing obstruent devoicing, the latter tracing the evolution of Maltese short vowels. Sumikazu examines a type of circumstantial clause in Maltese and the section concludes with a description of a digital etymological lexicon of Maltese (Gatt).Turning to syntax, Borg and Amaira analyze agreement mismatch in a number of syntactic constructions, Fabri discusses argument extension and Čéplö and Lucas examine the role of the focus particle lanqas in Maltese negation. Stolz and Levkovych provide a thorough analysis of the syntax and semantics of Maltese prepositions, while Schmidt, Vorholt and Witt offer a quantitative study of their distribution and use.Closing out the volume, Alexander examines in detail the phonetics of Maltese affricated stops, while Ellul and Galea analyze the epenthetic vowel alternation in the Maltese definite article.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Maltese and North African linguistics: Common roots and areal divergence

The diachrony of word-final obstruent devoicing in Maltese

The history of the Maltese short vowels

An observation on the ḥāl construction in Maltese

Minsel. An etymological database for lexemes of Arabic origin in Maltese

Will it agree or not? Syntactic overgeneralization leading to agreement mismatches in Maltese

Argument extension in Maltese

Lanqas, negative concord and predicate negation in Maltese

From variation towards the grammar of Maltese prepositions – first steps

Form and behavior of Maltese prepositions – A usage-based approach

To be or not to be an affricate – affricated stops in Maltese

Revisiting the definite article in Maltese

Index of Authors

Index of Languages

Index of Subjects

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9783110672268

311067226X

OCLC:

1158141625