Screen LibraryPerspectives on Maltese linguistics /
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...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2013] ©2013 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Studia typologica;
14 |
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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 dealing with diachronic considerations are also included. The topics dealt with in this volume show not only that Maltese is the object of research from a variety of perspectives but also that scholars with diverse backgrounds and of different nationalities are studying this language, thus providing an enriching body of knowl-edge, including findings of interest to general linguistics and various other fields in the humanities. Der vorliegende Band enth lt Beitr ge mit vielf ltigen Herangehensweisen zu unterschiedlichen Aspekten der maltesischen Sprachwissenschaft und erweitert dadurch den Blick auf eine Disziplin, die in den letzten Jahren deutlich mehr Interesse findet als das in der Vergangenheit der Fall war. Der Fokus wird in den einzelnen Beitr gen sowohl auf die maltesische Sprache an sich als auch auf den Sprachkontakt von Maltesisch mit anderen Sprachen gerichtet. Neben synchronen Untersuchungen, die morphologische und syntaktische Eigenschaften sowie lexikalische, korpus- und soziolinguistische Aspekte von Maltesisch eingehend beleuchten, finden sich Analysen mit vorwiegend diachroner Blickrichtung. Die thematische Vielfalt des vorliegenden Bandes, die aus den unterschiedlichen He-rangehensweisen der beteiligten Wissenschaftler unterschiedlicher Nationalit t und mit unterschiedlichem Forschungshintergrund resultiert, erweitert nicht nur den Wissensbestand der maltesi |
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1 online resource(354pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| Bibliography: | 23 schw.-w. Abb. |
| ISBN: | 9783050065144 |
| Index Number: | PJ6891 |
| CLC: | H67-532 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- A note on the dating of , g and x in Maltese / The Sfaxi (Tunisian) element in Maltese / Italian loanwords in Maltese and the vocabulary of "Levant Italian" / Prime constituents of Maltese sounds / The role of silence in spoken Maltese: durational and distributional characteristics of breaks and pauses / Syncretism in Maltese: the case of the dual / Fixing the broken plural in Maltese / The Maltese restrictive relative clause / An overview of object reduplication in Maltese / Indefinites and negative concord in Maltese: towards a dynamic account / It-tlieta li a na = the three of us. Numerically quantified person reference / Preparation of a free-running text corpus for Maltese 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. |