Maltese

ISBN-13: 9780415022439 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 416 str.

Albert J. Borg; Marie Azzopardi-Alexander;Azzopardi-Alexa

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Preface, Introdroduction, Conventions, Abbreviations, 1. Syntax, 2. Morphology, 3. Phonology, 4. Ideophones and interjections, 5. Lexicon, Appendix

O autorze

Marie Azzopardi-Alexander, Albert Borg