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

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Berlin : Akademie Verlag, [2014]
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©2014
Physical Description
1 online resource (354 pages) : illustrations
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Borg, Albert J., Caruana, Sandro, Vella, Alexandra, and International Conference on Maltese Linguistics (3rd : 2011 : University of Malta)
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Contents
Preface; HISTORICAL STUDIES; A note on the dating of h, gh and x in Maltese; The Sfaxi (Tunisian) element in Maltes; Italian loanwords in Maltese and the vocabulary of "Levant Italian"; PHONOLOGICAL STUDIES; Prime constituents of Maltese sounds; of breaks and pauses; MORPHOLOGICAL STUDIES; Syncretism in Maltese: the case of the dual; Fixing the broken plural in Maltese; SYNTACTIC STUDIES; The Maltese restrictive relative clause; An overview of object reduplication in Maltese; Indefinites and negative concord in Maltese: towards a dynamic account and It-tlieta li ahna = the three of us. Numerically quantified person referenceMALTESE IN THE DIGITAL AGE; Preparation of a free-running text corpus forMaltese concatenative speech synthesis; Language used in Internet chatting and its effect on spelling; List of Contributors; Index of Authors; Index of Languages; Index of Subjects
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 indepth analyses of morphological and syntactic features to contributions on the lexicon, corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics. A number of papers d.
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9783050065144 (electronic bk.)
3050065141 (electronic bk.)
9783050062754
3050062754
Note
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Maltese Linguistics, Malta, April 2011.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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