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The purpose of this volume is to present a snapshot of the state of the art of research on the languages of the Maltese islands, which include spoken Maltese, Maltese English and Maltese Sign Language. Malta is a tiny, but densely populated country, with over 422, 000 inhabitants spread over only 316 square kilometers. It is a bilingual country, with Maltese and English enjoying the status of official languages. Maltese is a descendant of Arabic, but due to the history of the island, it has borrowed extensively from Sicilian, Italian and English. Furthermore, local dialects still coexist alongside the official standard language. The status of English as a second language dates back to British colonial rule, and just as in other former British colonies, a characteristic Maltese variety of English has developed. To these languages must be added Maltese Sign Language, which is the language of the Maltese Deaf community. This was recently recognised as Malta's third official language by an act of Parliament in 2016.

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Publisher
Language Science Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9783961100705
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. 1 Introduction Patrizia Paggio & Albert Gatt
  4. 2 Loss of emphatic and guttural consonants: From medieval to contemporary Maltese Gilbert Puech
  5. 3 Onset clusters, syllable structure and syllabification in Maltese Luke Galea & Adam Ussishkin
  6. 4 Prosodic and gestural marking of complement fronting in Maltese Patrizia Paggio, Luke Galea & Alexandra Vella
  7. 5 Conditions on /t/-insertion in Maltese numeral phrases: A reassessment Christopher Lucas & Michael Spagnol
  8. 6 Borrowed affixes and morphological productivity: A case study of two Maltese nominalisations Albert Gatt & Ray Fabri
  9. 7 On raising and copy raising in Maltese Maris Camilleri
  10. 8 Rhythm in Maltese English Sarah Grech & Alexandra Vella
  11. 9 On the characterisation of Maltese English: An error-analysis perspective based on nominal structures in Maltese university student texts Natalie Schembri
  12. 10 Language change in Maltese English: The influence of age and parental languages Manfred Krug & Lukas Sönning
  13. 11 Maltese Sign Language: Parallel interwoven journeys of the Deaf community and the researchers Marie Azzopardi-Alexander
  14. Index