Table of contents
List of contributors
Preface
Part I. Typology1
Maltese and the World Atlas of Language Structures
Part II. Phonology13
Vowel duration and Maltese 'għ'
Part III. Syntax69
Topicalisation in Maltese
A head-driven phrase structure grammar for Maltese
Complex predicates in Maltese: From a neo-Arabic perspective
Splitting the verb chain in modern literary Maltese
"Pseudo-verbs": An analysis of non-verbal (co-)predication in Maltese
Part IV. Lexicon and electronic resources205
Compounding and adjective-noun compounds in Maltese
Auditory and visual lexical decision in Maltese
Electronic language resources for Maltese
Part V. Language change and contact277
The Vowel system of Cantilena: Its historical development
The shaping of Maltese throughout the centuries: Linguistic evidences from a diachronic-typological analysis
"Imma l'oriġinal oriġinali?": A noun-adjective opposition in some Maltese word-classes of Romance origin
A different kind of gender problem: Maltese loan-word gender from a typological perspective
Terminology of Italian origin used in EU Maltese: A case of linguistic "Europeanisation"?
Part VI. Sociolinguistics377
Diglossia: Variation on a theme
Maltese English: History of use, structural variation and sociolinguistic status
Index of authors
Index of languages419
Index of subjects
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