TY  - BOOK
AU  - Avram,Andrei A.
AU  - Azzopardi,Kirsty
AU  - Bednarowicz,Sebastian
AU  - Fabri,Ray
AU  - Just,Erika
AU  - Lucas,Christopher
AU  - Nintemann,Julia
AU  - Spagnol,Michael
AU  - Stolz,Thomas
AU  - Turek,Przemyslaw
AU  - Turek,Przemysław
AU  - Vorholt,Maike
AU  - Čéplö,Slavomír
TI  - Maltese: Contemporary Changes and Historical Innovations 
T2  - Studia Typologica [STTYP] : Beihefte / Supplements STUF - Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung / Language Typology and Universals ,
SN  - 9783110783766
AV  - PJ6891 .M358 2022
U1  - 492.79 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - Contrastive linguistics
KW  - Historical linguistics
KW  - Maltese language
KW  - Historische Linguistik
KW  - Kontrastive Linguistik
KW  - Maltesisch
KW  - Semitische Sprachen
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Contrastive Linguistics
KW  - Historical Linguistics
KW  - Maltese
KW  - Semitic Languages
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - This volume features nine articles, covering various aspects of Maltese linguistics:Part I, mostly dedicated to the Maltese lexicon, opens with Bednarowicz’s comparison of Maltese and Arabic adjectives. Fabri then categorizes various types of constructions involving the preposition ta’ ‘of’. The paper by Lucas and Spagnol discusses Maltese words containing an innovative final /n/.Part II deals with the syntax of Maltese: Azzopardi’s paper focuses on a construction in Maltese which consists of a sequence of two or more finite verbs. Just and Čéplö present the first corpus based study of differential object indexing in Maltese.In Part III on morphosyntax, Turek analyzes Arabic prepositions in Classical/Modern Standard Arabic and Arabic dialects and contrasts them with their Maltese equivalents. Stolz and Vorholt then analyze the structural and functional similarities and differences of spatial interrogatives in Maltese and Spanish. Vorholt then investigates the adpositions of sixteen European languages including Maltese and examines the relationship between length and frequency.The volume is closed with Part IV on phonology and Avram’s paper, in which the diachrony of voicing assimilation in consonant clusters is reconstructed
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110783834
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110783834
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110783834/original
ER  -