Variation and Change by Sandro Caruana
The twelve contributions to this collection of articles focus on variation and change in the lexicon, morphology, syntax and phonology of Maltese. Various aspects of lectal variation are addressed: the properties of sociolects, technolects, regional varieties, and different registers of present-day Maltese are discussed. On-going changes are looked at in several of the papers. The questions of whether or not there is a typical Maltese EU-variety or a distinct sociolect spoken by the younger generation are raised. Not all of the phenomena which attest variation can be ascribed to the sociolinguistic sphere. Morpho-syntactic issues like the definition of clitics, the causative-inchoative alternation and the employment of the possessive relative clause are linked more closely to structural and functional factors. Suprasegmental issues like the use of pauses in spoken Maltese and the syllable structure of Maltese are scrutinized as well. These topics are complemented by dialectological studies, investigations of the pragmatics of Maltese and the description of literary Maltese. The range of topics covered in this collection proves that it is worth the while studying Maltese from the perspective of general linguistics.-
Proper Names versus Common Nouns
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Number Categories
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The Next Century of Maltese Linguistics
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The Grammar of Maltese Prepositions
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Special Onymic Grammar in Typological Perspective
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Convergence and Divergence in the Eastern Circum-Baltic Area
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Aspects of Typology and Universals
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Problems of Polysynthesis
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The The Origin of Agent Markers
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Evidential Marking in European Languages
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"Was ich noch sagen wollte..."
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Focus on Germanic Typology
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Maltese
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Word Order Variation
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Grammaticalization and Variation
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Reduplication at the Word Level
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Non-Prototypical Reduplication
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Competing Comparative Constructions in Europe
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The Crosslinguistics of Zero-Marking of Spatial Relations
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Perspectives on Maltese Linguistics
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Areal Linguistics within the Phonological Atlas of Europe
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Spatial Interrogatives in Europe and Beyond
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Here Hither Hence and Related Categories
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Grammatical Gender in Maltese
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Advances in Maltese Linguistics
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Maltese Linguistics on the Danube
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Types of Reduplication
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Shifts and Patterns in Maltese
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The Expression of Predicative Possession
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Irregularity in Morphology (and beyond)
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Total Reduplication
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Typological Studies in Participation
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Monosyllables
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Morphologies in Contact
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Predicate Compounding in the Yi-Group
Caruana, Sandro: - Prof Sandro Caruana, Head of Department, Department of Arts and Languages in Education, University of Malta Prof Ray Fabri, Chairman and Associate Professor, Institute of Linguistics, University of Malta Prof. Thomas Stolz, PhD, Department of Language Sciences, University of Bremen
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| ISBN 13 | 9783050056487 |
| ISBN 10 | 3050056487 |
| Title | Variation and Change |
| Author | Sandro Caruana |
| Series | Studia Typologica [Sttyp] |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | De Gruyter |
| Year published | 2011-12-07 |
| Number of pages | 326 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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