
Title:
Maltese : Contemporary Changes and Historical Innovations
Author:
Avram, Andrei A., contributor.
ISBN:
9783110783834
Physical Description:
1 online resource (VIII, 270 p.)
Series:
Studia Typologica [STTYP] : Beihefte / Supplements STUF - Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung / Language Typology and Universals , 30
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I: Lexicon -- The semantic structure of adjectives referring to the holiness in Maltese and Arabic languages -- The lexical ta' construction -- Nunation from Arabic to Maltese -- Part II: Syntax -- The verb sequence V1+V2 in Maltese -- Differential object indexing in Maltese - a corpus based pilot study -- Part III: Morphosyntax -- Arabic prepositions and their Maltese equivalents -- On WH-PREPS. A contrastive grammatical sketch of Maltese fejn and Spanish donde/donde -- Can frequency predict length? A crosslinguistic investigation of Zipf's law for European adpositions -- Part IV: Phonology -- Regressive voicing assimilation in Maltese: Diachrony and typology -- Index of Authors -- Index of Languages -- Index of Subjects
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