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