| Author | : Manwel Mifsud |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9789004100916 |
A description of the processes by which, over centuries of large-scale contact, Romance (Old Sicilian and Italian) and English verbs have been integrated to varying degrees into the Arabic structure of Maltese. Loan verbs are analysed and classified into categories ranging from fully naturalised verbs to undigested loans.
| Author | : Manwel Mifsud |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 359 |
| Release | : 2017-07-03 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9004348387 |
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.
| Author | : Edward Fenech |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 1978 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9789004057562 |
A revision of the author's thesis, University of Leeds.
| Author | : Marie Azzopardi-Alexander |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 412 |
| Release | : 2013-04-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1136855211 |
Focusing primarily on Standard Maltese, the authors clarify many areas which, until now, remain undefined, with emphasis on syntax and intonation. English loanwords continue to find their way into Standard Maltese, especially as the Maltese inhabitants become increasingly bilingual, and the variations are studied, as well as their morphological behavior. The book describes the syntactic, morphological and phonological structure of Maltese as one integrated linguistic system composed of different strands (Arabic, Romance and English).
| Author | : Sabrina Bendjaballah |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027237255 |
This volume focuses on two main topics: comparative morphology (i.e. cross-linguistic analysis, including typology, dialectology and diachrony) and psycholinguistics (i.e. on-line processing, off-line experiments, child language). Since the psycholinguistic papers of this volume consistently refer to issues of grammatical theory and many of the contributions on morphological theory consider psycholinguistic questions, the topics are interconnected. Both inflectional and derivational morphology are dealt with. The volume spans a broad set of languages of the world, such as African, Amerindian, Arabic and Chukotko-Kamchatkan, in addition to the Indo-European languages. This volume differs from the other collective volumes on morphology both by the breadth of topics and by great integration of theoretical and methodological perspectives.
| Author | : Cristina Vertan |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 2012-04-25 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1443839620 |
This volume draws attention to many specific challenges of multilingual processing within the European Union, especially after the recent successive enlargement. Most of the languages considered herein are not only ‘less resourced’ in terms of processing tools and training data, but also have features which are different from the well known international language pairs. The 16 contributions address specific problems and solutions for languages from south-eastern and central Europe in the context of multilingual communication, translation and information retrieval.
| Author | : Lotfi Sayahi |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2014-04-24 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1139867075 |
This volume provides a detailed analysis of language contact in North Africa and explores the historical presence of the languages used in the region, including the different varieties of Arabic and Berber as well as European languages. Using a wide range of data sets, it provides a comprehensive analysis of the mechanisms of language contact under classical diglossia and societal bilingualism, examining multiple cases of oral and written code-switching. It also describes contact-induced lexical and structural change in such situations and discusses the possible appearance of new varieties within the context of diglossia. Examples from past diglossic situations are examined, including the situation in Muslim Spain and the Maltese Islands. An analysis of the current situation of Arabic vernaculars, not only in the Maghreb but also in other Arabic-speaking areas, is also presented. This book will appeal to anyone interested in language contact, the Arabic language, and North Africa.
| Author | : Sylvain Auroux |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 1153 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 3110111039 |
| Author | : Stefano Manfredi |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 2018-07-10 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027263620 |
The present volume provides an overview of current trends in the study of language contact involving Arabic. By drawing on the social factors that have converged to create different contact situations, it explores both contact-induced change in Arabic and language change through contact with Arabic. The volume brings together leading scholars who address a variety of topics related to contact-induced change, the emergence of contact languages, codeswitching, as well as language ideologies in contact situations. It offers insights from different theoretical approaches in connection with research fields such as descriptive and historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, ethnolinguistics, and language acquisition. It provides the general linguistic public with an updated, cutting edge overview and appreciation of themes and problems in Arabic linguistics and sociolinguists alike. As of January 2023, this e-book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.
