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- Loan Verbs in Maltese : A Descriptive and Comparative Study (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, No 21) US Edition
- Loan Verbs in Maltese : A Descriptive and Comparative Study (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, No 21) UK Edition<
by Manwel Mifsud
Severed from its parent language and from the other vernaculars, as well as from the Islamic culture and religion, the peripheral Arabic dialect of Malta has for the last nine centuries been exposed to large-scale contact with Medieval Sicilian, Italian and, later, English. Modern Maltese thus incorporates a great mass of borrowed words. This volume is a description of the processes by which Romance and English loan verbs have been integrated to varying degrees into the Arabic structure of Maltese morphology. It also proposes a typological classification of borrowed verbs in a continuum ranging from fully-integrated types to practically "undigested" loans. The contact situation described here is of special interest both to Arabists and to scholars with an interest in language contact phenomena, especially in view of the basic incongruence between the languages involved, the long period of contact, and the small area in which it occurred.
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- Sources Concerning the Hospitallers of St. John in the Netherlands, 14Th-18th Centuries (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics)
by J. M. Van Winter
This source collection brings for the first time records from foreign archives concerning the Dutch commanderies of the Order of the Hospital of St. John or of Malta and their place within the Order's international organization. The book presents bulls and letters from and to the Grandmaster and the Prior of Germany; a 14th-century rent-roll of St. Catherine's Convent at Utrecht; visitations and inquiries 1373-1732; and a list of pamphlets concerning the regaining of the Order's confiscated property in the Dutch Republic. All sources are given in their original language: Latin, French, Italian, German or Dutch. Because of the long period (14th-18th centuries) and the broad variety of subjects they are important for researchers of political as well as economic history from medieval to early modern times.
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- Front Vowels, Coronal Consonants and Their Interaction in Nonlinear Phonology (Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics)
by Elizabeth V. Hume
The author's Ph.D. dissertation (Cornell U., 1991), this work examines the interaction of front vowels and coronal consonants in a range of phonological processes cross-linguistically. Both phonological and phonetic evidence are provided in support of the view that these sounds constitute members of the same natural class, which is argued to be coronal. The second half of the work presents a case study of consonant/vowel interaction in Maltese. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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- Maltese
(Descriptive Grammars) US Edition
- Maltese
(Descriptive Grammars) UK Edition
by Albert J. Borg, Marie Azzopardi-Alexander
The national language of the Island of Malta, in the Mediterranean Sea is spoken by almost 400,000 people. This text focuses on Standard Maltese and serves to clarify many areas which remain undefined, specifically in the areas of syntax and intonation. English loanwords continue to find their way into Standard Maltese, especially as Maltese inhabitants become increasingly bilingual, and their variations are studied, as well as their morphological behaviour. Complying with the "Descriptive Grammars" series profile, Albert Borg presents a linguistical analysis of Maltese which is intended to be of significance to linguists, for the purposes of both cross-language comparisons and the study of specific linguistic, such as language universals, language typology, comparative syntax, morphology and phonology.
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