Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maltese linguistics: What is new? -- Part 1: New looks into the past -- On the phonology of Sicilian Arabic and early Maltese -- Aspects of the comparison between Maltese, Mediterranean Lingua Franca and the Occitan-Catalan linguistic group (13th-15th centuries) -- Part 2: Maltese, and just Maltese -- Modifiers and complements within the Maltese verb sequence -- Focus particles in Maltese: A corpus survey -- On prepositional ellipsis and the factors which block its application in Maltese -- Part 3: Beyond Maltese, now and then -- Verbal negation with muš in Maltese and Eastern Mediterranean Arabics -- Maltese kiteb vs. Tunisian (Sūsa) ktib -- The phonetic study of speakers along the Maltese-English continuum -- The visibility and salience of Maltese in bilingual Malta's linguistic landscape -- The myth of the mixed languages -- Index of Authors -- Index of Languages -- Index of Subjects