Sitzungsberichte
Minuti tal-konferenzi u l-laqgħat tal-GĦILM

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PART I: LEXICON
The Semantic structure of adjectives referring to the holiness in Maltese and Arabic languages
Sebastian Bednaowicz
The lexical ta' construction
Ray Fabri
Nunation from Arabic to Maltese
Christopher Lucas & Michael Spagnol
PART II: SYNTAX
The Verb sequence V1+V2 in Maltese
Kirsty Azzopardi
Differential object indexing in Maltese – a corpus based pilot study
Erika Just & Slavomír Čéplö
PART III: MORPHOSYNTAX
Arabic prepositions and their Maltese equivalents
Przemysław Turek
On WH-PREPS. A contrastive grammatical sketch of Maltese fejn and Spanish donde/dónde
Thomas Stolz & Maike Vorholt
Can frequency predict length? A crosslinguistic investigation of Zipf’s law for European adpositions
Maike Vorholt
PART IV: PHONOLOGY
Regressive voicing assimilation in Maltese: Diachrony and typology
Andrei A. Avram

Tabungsband 5. Lingwistika Maltija
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Benjamin Saade and Mauro Tosco
Maltese linguistics: What is new?| VII
Part 1: New looks into the past
Andrei A. Avram
On the phonology of Sicilian Arabic and early Maltese | 3
Carles Biosca and Carles Castellanos
Aspects of the comparison between Maltese, Mediterranean Lingua Franca and the Occitan-Catalan linguistic group | 39
Part 2: Maltese, and just Maltese
Ray Fabri and Albert Borg
Modifiers and complements within the Maltese verb sequence | 67
Slavomír “bulbul” Čéplö
Focus particles in Maltese: A corpus survey | 87
Thomas Stolz and Carolin Ahrens
On prepositional ellipsis and the factors which block its application in Maltese | 121
Part 3: Beyond Maltese, now and then
Amany Al-Sayyed and David Wilmsen
Verbal negation with muš in Maltese and Eastern Mediterranean Arabics | 151
Gilbert Puech
Maltese kiteb vs. Tunisian (Sūsa) ktib | 173
Marie Azzopardi-Alexander
The phonetic study of speakers along the Maltese-English continuum | 193
Lydia Sciriha
The visibility and salience of Maltese in bilingual Malta’s linguistic landscape | 225
Kees Versteegh
The myth of the mixed languages | 245

Table of contents:
Gilbert Puech and Benjamin Saade: Preface | VII
Martine Vanhove: From Maltese phonology to morphogenesis: A tribute to David Cohen | 1
Part I: Phonology
Gilbert Puech: Minimalist representation of Maltese sounds | 19
Andrei A. Avram: Phonological changes in Maltese: Evidence from onomastics | 49
Alexandra Vella, Flavia Chetcuti and Sarah Agius: Lengthening as a discourse strategy in Maltese: Phonetic and phonological characteristics | 91
Part II: Morphology & Syntax
Maris Camilleri: How inflectional morphology meets subcategorization frame distinctions in Maltese | 115
Hans-Jörg Döhla: The origin of differential object marking in Maltese | 149
David Wilmsen: Polar interrogative -š in Maltese: Developments and antecedents | 175
Thomas Stolz and Benjamin Saade: On short and long forms of personal pronouns in Maltese | 199
Christopher Lucas and Michael Spagnol: Connecting /t/ in Maltese numerals | 269
Part III: Contact, Bilingualism & Technology
George Farrugia: Languages in contact. Is the gender assignment system in Maltese undergoing change? | 293
Bernard Comrie and Michael Spagnol: Maltese loanword typology | 315
Marie Azzopardi-Alexander: Language profiling: The weaving of Maltese and English in Maltese children’s conversations | 331
John J. Camilleri: Digitizing the grammar and vocabulary of Maltese | 359

Borg, Albert; Caruana, Sandro & Alexandra Vella (eds.). 2014. Perspectives on Maltese Linguistics (STTYP 14). München: Akademie Verlag.
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Historical Studies
Arnold Cassola - A note on the dating of ħ, għ and x in Maltese
Martin R. Zammit - The Sfaxi (Tunisian) element in Maltese
Daniele Baglioni- Italian loanwords in Maltese and the vocabulary od "Levant Italian"
Phonological Studies
Gilbert Puech - Prime constituents od Maltese sounds
Alexandra Vella, Michael Spagnol, Sarah Grech & Flavia Chetcuti - The role of silence in spoken Maltese: durational and distributional characteristics of breaks and pauses
Morphological Studies
Phyllisienne Gauci & Maris Camilleri - Syncretism in Maltese: the case of the dual
Thomas Mayer, MIchael Spagnol & Florian Schönberger - Fixing the broken plural in Maltese
Syntactic Studies
Maris Camilleri - The Maltese restrictive relative clause
Slavomír "Bulbul" Čéplö - An overview of object reduplication in Maltese
Christopher Lucas - Indefinites and negative concord in Maltese: towards a dynamic account
Thomas Stolz - It-tlieta li aħna = the three of us. Numerically quantified person reference
Maltese in the digital age
Mark Borg, Keith Bugeja, Colin Vella, Gordon Mangion & Carmel Gafà - Preparation of a free-runing text corpus for Maltese concatenative speech synthesis
Lara Vella - Language used in Internet chatting and its effect on spelling
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Part I: The Lexicon and Variation
Albert Borg: Lectal variation in Maltese
Joseph M. Brincat: Describing literary Maltese: concordances to Dun Karm and Rużar Briffa
Antoinette Camilleri Grima: Giving compliments in Maltese
Lara Brincat & Sandro Caruana: il-Malti Mgħaġġel - Maltese in computer-mediated chat conversations
Ray Fabri: The language of young people and language change in Malta
Laura Mori: Linguistic variation in legal Maltese - EU directives compared to national implementation laws
Part II: Morphology and Syntax
Maris Camilleri: On pronominal verbal enclitics in Maltese
Michael Spagnol: The causative-inchoative alternation in Maltese
Thomas Stolz: The possessive relative clause in Maltese
Part III: Phonology
Marie Azzopardi-Alexander: The vowel system of Xlukkajr and Naduri
Alexandra Vella, Michael Spagnol, Sarah Grech & Flavia Chetcuti: A preliminary investigation of filled pauses in Maltese
Gilbert Puech: Syllabic structure and stress in Maltese

Inhalt
PART I. TYPOLOGY
Maltese and the World Atlas of Language Structures
Bernard Comrie | pp. 3–11
PART II. PHONOLOGY
Vowel duration and Maltese 'għ'
Elizabeth Hume, Jennifer Venditti, Alexandra Vella and Samantha Gett | pp. 15–46
On Maltese prosody
Alexandra Vella | pp. 47–68
PART III. SYNTAX
Topicalisation in Maltese
Albert Borg and Marie Azzopardi-Alexander | pp. 71–81
A head-driven phrase structure grammar for Maltese
Stefan Müller | pp. 83–112
Complex predicates in Maltese: From a neo-Arabic perspective
Utz Maas | pp. 113–132
Splitting the verb chain in modern literary Maltese
Thomas Stolz | pp. 133–179
"Pseudo-verbs": An analysis of non-verbal (co-)predication in Maltese
John Peterson | pp. 181–204
PART IV. LEXICON AND ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
Compounding and adjective-noun compounds in Maltese
Ray Fabri | pp. 207–231
Auditory and visual lexical decision in Maltese
Adam Ussishkin and Alina Twist | pp. 233–249
Electronic language resources for Maltese
Michael Rosner | pp. 251–276
PART V. LANGUAGE CHANGE AND CONTACT
The Vowel system of Cantilena: Its historical development
Sumikazu Yoda | pp. 279–290
The shaping of Maltese throughout the centuries: Linguistic evidences from a diachronic-typological analysis
Laura Mori | pp. 291–307
"Imma l'oriġinal oriġinali?": A noun-adjective opposition in some Maltese word-classes of Romance origin
Manwel Mifsud | pp. 309–320
A different kind of gender problem: Maltese loan-word gender from a typological perspective
Christel Stolz | pp. 321–353
Terminology of Italian origin used in EU Maltese: A case of linguistic "Europeanisation"?
Sandro Caruana | pp. 355–375
PART VI. SOCIOLINGUISTICS
Diglossia: Variation on a theme
Antoinette Camilleri Grima | pp. 379–391
Maltese English: History of use, structural variation and sociolinguistic status
Lisa M. Bonnici | pp. 393–414