TY - BOOK ID - 117999269 TI - Maltese 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, Przemysław AU - Vorholt, Maike AU - Čéplö, Slavomír AU - Turek, Przemyslaw PY - 2022 SN - 9783110783834 3110783835 PB - Berlin Boston DB - UniCat KW - Contrastive linguistics. KW - Maltese language. KW - Historical linguistics. KW - Diachronic linguistics KW - Dynamic linguistics KW - Evolutionary linguistics KW - Language and languages KW - Language and history KW - Linguistics KW - Arabic language KW - Maltese dialect KW - History KW - Dialects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:117999269 AB - 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. ER -