Mauro Tosco

Benjamin Saade

This volume is a collection of up-to-date articles on Maltese on all linguistic levels, demonstrating the variety of topics Maltese has to offer for linguists of all specializations. Two diachronic studies discuss the early contact of Maltese and Sicilian Arabic (Avram) and the possible lexical influence of Occitan-Catalan on Maltese in the 13th-15th century (Biosca & Castellanos).Fabri & Borg shed light on the rules that govern verb sequences in Maltese. Čéplö presents a corpus analysis of the syntactic and semantic properties of focus constructions in Maltese. Stolz & Ahrens analyze the behavior of prepositional phrases with identical heads under coordination. Wilmsen & Al-Sayyed study the use of muš as a negator in Maltese and beyond. Puech presents a detailed phonological analysis of Maltese and Tunisian Arabic based on prosody, syllabic structure, and stress. Azzopardi-Alexander gives a fine-grained analysis of phonological features in Maltese English, placing speakers on a Maltese-English continuum. Sciriha takes a visual approach to multilingualism in Malta with her quantitative study of public and private signs. Finally, Versteegh offers a thought-provoking perspective on the notion "mixed language" and its viability.

Advances in Maltese Linguistics

Grammar, Texts, Vocabulary of a Cushitic Language of Ethiopia

The Dhaasanac Language

Alessandro Bausi

contributi presentati all'8o Incontro di linguistica afroasiatica (camito-semitica) : Napoli, 25-26 gennaio 1996

Afroasiatica neapolitana

Stefano Manfredi

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.

Arabic in Contact

The articles in the present volume offer an updated view of the breadth of theoretical and empirical research being carried on in the different subgroups of the Afroasiatic phylum. They are written by leading specialists and are representative of widely different perspectives and interests, from the analysis of data from scarcely known varieties to the reappraisal of old debates (such as the value of the Classical Arabic verbal forms). Reflecting a great diversity of language structures and functions, the articles are grouped into three broad areas: the phylum as such in its classificatory and typological aspects; the analysis of the intricate morphology of Afroasiatic and its developments; and the syntax of Afroasiatic in its widest sense, from the clause to the sentence and beyond. They witness how Afroasiatic, with its unsurpassed historical depth and immense geographical breadth, keeps representing a constant source of fascinating data and implications for linguistic theory.

Data and perspectives

Afroasiatic

Marco Tamburelli

This is the first volume entirely dedicated to contested languages. While generally listed in international language atlases, contested languages usually fall through the cracks of research: excluded from the literature on minority languages and treated as mere ensembles of geographically defined varieties by traditional dialectology. This volume investigates the nature of contested languages, the role language ideologies play in the perception of these languages, the contribution of academic discourse to the formation and perpetuation of language contestedness, and the damage contestedness causes to linguistic communities and ultimately to linguistic diversity. Various situations and degrees of language contestedness are presented and analysed, along with theoretical considerations, exploring potential roads to recognition and issues in language planning that arise from language contestedness. Addressing the “language vs dialect” question head on, the volume opens up new perspectives that are relevant to all students and researchers interested in the maintenance of linguistic diversity.

The hidden multilingualism of Europe

Contested Languages

Pier Giorgio Borbone

Alessandro Mengozzi

From the table of contents: (73 contributions)E. Albrile, Il silenzio degli dei. Ermetismo, etnobotanica e altri mitiM. G. Amadasi Guzzo, Un'iscrizione fenicia da IbizaW. Arnold, Uber die Herstellung von Seide in Antiochien. Ein Text im arabischen Dialekt der Nus.ayrier von Yaqt.uA. Avanzini, To accompany a recently published Sabaic text: Historical and grammatical remarksS. Baldi, L'esperanto e la lingua hausaV. Barandovska-Frank, Internaciaj lingvoj en interretoF. Bellino, David Morkos frate della Custodia di Terra Santa e professore di arabo nella Torino dell'OttocentoJ. Blau, Some reflections on the disappearance of cases in ArabicP. Giorgio Borbone, L'autore della "Storia di Mar Yahballaha e di Rabban Sauma"R. Borghero, Some features of the North Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialect of AshithaA. Boucherit, De esperanto a espoir: remarques lexicalesE. Braida - S. Destefanis, L'alchermes: liquore cremisi o vermiglio? Divagazioni storico-etimologiche sull' origine di un coloreF. B. Chatonnet - A. Desreumaux - A. Binggeli, Un cas tres ancien de garshouni ? Quelques re. exions sur lemanuscrit BL Add. 14644V. Brugnatelli, Come si concludeva il poema di Aqhat

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