Publisher: nadine.angermann@web.de
Date: 2001
Pages: 95
This research report reflects the results of a mainly qualitative survey that has been conducted in Malta during two weeks of October 2000. To obtain the information for this study, 52 Maltese participated in the project. The respondents were asked to fill in a questionnaire. The people were specially chosen to...
Date: 1971
Pages: 36
La storia di un paese è formata dalla società, che oltre a trasmettere il retaggio sociale e linguistico degli antenati, più о meno trasformato о diversificato dalla fonetica e dalla semantica che operano sui due terreni confinanti del Tempo e dello Spazio, trasmette anche nuovi retaggi sociali e linguistici della società contemporanea che cessa di essere...
Date: 1972
Pages: 62
The Arabic political domination in Malta lasted from 870 to 1090; but the linguistic influence of the Arabs was prolonged for almost another 200 years, till about 1245 when they were expelled from the island lock, stock and barrel by Frederick II of Sicily. After this expulsion, Arabic linguistic influence in Malta dwindled away till it disappeared...
Teach Yourself Books, 1980. — 240 p. An introductory course in Maltese which is divided into three parts - sounds and letters, grammar and verbs. It includes practice exercises. Functional and fun, this course offers full pronunciation, guides, grammar summaries, dialogues, cultural notes, vocabulary charts, and irregular verb tables.
Publisher: The English Universities Press, Limited
Publication date: 1965
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-10: 0340627476
ISBN-13: 978-0340627471
Language English
An introductory course in Maltese which is divided into three parts - sounds and letters, grammar and verbs. It includes practice exercises.
Routledge, 1996. — 416 p. 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...
Date: 2004
Pages: 8
The object of this article is to provide an introduction to the Maltese language, giving a brief overview of its history and the conditions under which it is developing at the present time. The uniqueness and interest of Maltese in the European context is obvious: it is Europe's only Semitic language, and at the same time an authentic example of a mixed...
Routledge, 1997. — 424 p. Maltese, the national language of the island of Malta, is the only Semitic language of Europe, spoken by almost 400,000 people. Focusing primarily on Standard Maltese, the authors clarify many areas which, until now, remained undefined, especially syntax and intonation. English loanwords continue to find their way into Standard Maltese as the influence...
University of Malta, 2015. — 198 p. This thesis presents the first comprehensive and systematic treatment of Maltese morphology using machine learning techniques. Maltese is considered as a ‘mixed’ language reflected in the hybrid nature of the morphological system, which has elements of both templatic systems typical of Semitic languages, and stem-based systems typical of...
München: Lincom, 2001. — 140 p. — ISBN: 3895863319. The author divides the contents of this monograph into six parts. The first five form the body of the work; the sixth is an elaborate subcategorized bibliography. In Part 1, ‘Introduction’ (1–10), Bovingdon states that the aim of his study is ‘to note and to record the manner in which the Maltese Language of Australia has...
Education et Sociétés Plurilingues n°20-juin, 2006. - 12 p.
Gli stranieri sono spesso affascinati dalla situazione linguistica di Malta. Quando sentono parlare in Maltese, sono inevitabilmente colpiti da certi suoni che ricordano l’Arabo, quando lo leggono riconoscono diverse parole italiane, e seguendo le conversazioni dei locali si meravigliano dell’intreccio di frasi maltesi...
Malta: Colour Image Ltd, 1997. — 162 p. — ISBN: 9990984026. Audio Практический коммуникативный курс современного мальтийского языка. Merħba Bik has been written with the adolescent and mature student in mind. Some topics appeal more to secondary school students, others to a more adult audience. In each case, however, the material provided is aimed at beginners. By the end of...
Published: Malta: Colour Image Ltd Date: 1997 Audio format: RAR MP3, 44kHz, 196 kbps ISBN: 9990984026 Book Практический коммуникативный курс современного мальтийского языка. Merħba Bik has been written with the adolescent and mature student in mind. Some topics appeal more to secondary school students, others to a more adult audience. In each case, however, the material...
University of Surrey, 2003 - 12 p.
This paper documents and introduces a description of Maltese relative constructions (hereafter
referred to as RCs). Maltese is a mixed language (Aquilina 1959), belonging to the Semitic family. What descriptions are available for the language, which deal with the constructions under discussion here, namely Borg & Azzopardi-Alexander (1997),...
University of Essex, 2016. — 379 p. This study aims to better understand the realisation of grammatical tense and aspect in Maltese. We first consider the different temporal and aspectual interpretations related with the verbal and participial morphology. The main focus will then be the identification of different sorts of auxiliaries that contribute to the realisation of the...
Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2011. — 326 p. — ISBN 9783050057200. 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...
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company Publication date: 2009 Number of pages: 439 This collection of articles documents the majority of the contributions to the 1st International Conference on Maltese Linguistics which took place in Bremen from 18–20 October, 2007. On this occasion, more than 50 scholars from twelve countries in Europe, Asia and the Americas exchanged...
Author: Dr. Bob Boland & Team MD, MPH, DBA, ITP (Harvard) Publisher: crelearning-Lulu.com Publication date: 2005 Number of pages: 39 Audio Practice and rapid natural absorption of basic Maltese from English, with creative learning exercise and a 30 minute audio, in about a day. This program is dedicated to the memory of Professor Kenneth Hale, the eminent linguist of MIT who...
Author: Dr. Bob Boland & Team MD, MPH, DBA, ITP (Harvard) Publisher: crelearning-Lulu.com Publication date: 2005 Number of pages: 39 Format / Quality: MP3/ 24kb/sek. /35 min. Book Practice and rapid natural absorption of basic Maltese from English, with creative learning exercise and a 30 minute audio, in about a day. This program is dedicated to the memory of Professor Kenneth...
Publisher: Association "France-Malte" de Marseilles-Provence? Publication date: 1980 Number of pages: 53 Maltese resources are very rare. Here is a very "grammar driven" method to learn this language for French-speaking people. It's a rather "old-fashion" method, and there is no audio support, but it's short and very clear to get the basis of the language. It's also a very rare...
Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1993. — 291 p. — (Linguistische Arbeiten 292). A study on agreement in Maltese. Diese Arbeit stellt eine detaillierte Analyse der Kongruenzphänomene des Maltesischen und deren Formalisierung vor. Ein Schwerpunkt der Arbeit liegt in der Präsentation und Diskussion der Daten, an denen dann die in der Einleitung skizzierte Kongruenztheorie erprobt...
Date: 2008 Number of pages: 222 Maltese Grammar and Dictionary is intended for pleasure, especially to those planning a trip to the Maltese islands. Being able to speak even a few words will guarantee an appreciative and warm response. I suggest that you follow the initial sequence of this Survival Maltese, esp. in regards to pronunciation and basic expressions. This gives you...
De Gruyter, 2018. — 320 p. Is grammatical gender merely stored as a syntactic property of nouns, or is it computed according to a noun’s semantic, morphological and phonological properties every time it is required? In many languages, gender appears to resist systematic treatment and can even cause problems for non-native learners. Native speakers of these languages appear to...
Publisher: Leiden: Brill Date: 1990 Pages: 251 This analytical and comparative study arose as part of an attempt to analyse the present-day Maltese language as it is actually used outside the literary circles. 'Non-normative' Maltese is, of course, a very vast subject, and cannot be treated extensively in a single survey. It is proposed here, therefore, to study only one facet...
Leipzig: Vogel, 1810. — 94 p.
Ihrer gütigen Genehmigung vertrauend, bin ich so dreist, Ihnen hierbey einen kleinen Versuch aus dem Felde semitischer Sprachforschung zur gefälligen Prüfung zu übersenden. Die ausgebreiteten Bemühungen, die Sie diesen Studien schenken, lassen mich hoffen, dass auch diese Behandlung eines so speziellen Gegenstandes nicht ohne einiges Inieresse für...
2003. - 18 p.
Linguists at least since de Saussure have made a fundamental distinction between the diachronic, historical dimension of language and the synchronic, structural dimension. Yet even after all this time, linguists sometimes confuse the two dimensions, and no more so than in the classification of languages. The diachronic classification of languages into families...
Valetta Publishing, 1996. — 215 p. — ISBN: 9990958025. This course is divided into 24 lessons, each of which introduces a specific piece of grammar and new vocabulary. Each lesson begins with a text in Maltese, followed by an English explanation of the grammar involved, and a word-list. Probably the best textbook of Maltese available, comprehensive enough to provide a decent...
Publisher: Hamburg: Buske, Date: 1976 Pages: 156 ISBN: 387118232X A study of Maltese phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics in comparison and contrast with Italian. Le cadre théorique de la présente recherche est constitué par les enseignements dont nous avons profité de 1971-1975 en assistant aux séminaires de linguistique fonctionnelle d'André Martinet à la 4e section de...
Leiden: Brill, 1995. — 340 p. — (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 21). — ISBN 90004100911. 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....
Publication date: 2010
ISBN: 978-3-89416-568-0
Number of pages: 160
Language: German
Das kleine Archipel Malta wurde im Laufe der Jahrhunderte Besitz vieler Herren, was sich natürlich auf die Sprache ausgewirkt hat. Maltesisch ist eine semitische Sprache mit einer auf dem Arabischen basierenden Grammatik und einem aus vielen Sprachen zusammengesetzten Vokabular....
Publisher: TIPOGRAFIA DI M. WEISS.
Date: 1845
Pages: 334
La Lingua Maltese è un idioma per origine orientale, ma per tendenza europeo; poiché partecipa in oggi dell' Haliano, e si scrive ordinariamente alla maniera italiana.
De Gruyter Mouton, 2016. — 402 p. — (Studia Typologica 19). This present volume showcases the variety of up-to-date linguistic research on Maltese. Starting with a tribute to the late David Cohen, influential French Semiticist, the remainder of the book is divided into three parts: Phonology, Morphology & Syntax, and Contact, Bilingualism & Technology. The papers in the...
Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. — 274 p. — ISBN: 9783110565744. 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...
Author/Publisher: SBS Publication date: 2012 Format / Quality: MP3 / 64 kbps Practise your Maltese listerning with skills with radio podcasts. A selection of 8 broadcasts from the Maltese service of SBS (Special Broadcasting Service, the Australian public broadcasting radio), with reports on aspects of mainly Maltese and Australian politics, science, history and culture....
Author/Publisher: SBS Publication date: 2012 Format / Quality: MP3 / 64 kbps Practise your Maltese listerning with skills with radio podcasts. A selection of 8 broadcasts from the Maltese service of SBS (Special Broadcasting Service, the Australian public broadcasting radio), with reports on aspects of mainly Maltese and Australian politics, science, history and culture....
Author/Publisher: SBS Publication date: 2012 Format / Quality: MP3 / 64 kbps Practise your Maltese listerning with skills with radio podcasts. A selection of 8 broadcasts from the Maltese service of SBS (Special Broadcasting Service, the Australian public broadcasting radio), with reports on aspects of mainly Maltese and Australian politics, science, history and culture....
Author/Publisher: SBS Publication date: 2012 Format / Quality: MP3 / 64 kbps Practise your Maltese listerning with skills with radio podcasts. A selection of 8 broadcasts from the Maltese service of SBS (Special Broadcasting Service, the Australian public broadcasting radio), with reports on aspects of mainly Maltese and Australian politics, science, history and culture....
Publisher: University of Malta Publication date: 2004 Pages: 68 (136) Language is undeniably one of the most powerful indicators of a person's identity and origins. Even though the population of the small island of Malta stands at a mere 400,000, the Maltese people are proud to speak Maltese, the indigenous language of Malta. Though Maltese had been spoken by the natives of...
Publisher: University of Malta
Publication date: 2004
Format / Quality: Audio: Lame MP3, 128 Kbit/s, 44kHz, CBR 2 channels.
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Beginning Maltese is a user friendly, self teaching course that will give you a basic knowledge of Maltese and will enable you to...
Publisher: MALTA
Date: 1845
Pages: 74
Grammar, which is the art of speaking and writing words properly, has three parts: Orthography, Etymology and Syntax.
De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. — 278 p. — (Studia Typologica 30). This volume features nine articles, covering various aspects of Maltese linguistics: Part I, mostly dedicated to the Maltese lexicon, opens with Bednarowicz’s comparison of Maltese and Arabic adjectives. Fabri then categorizes various types of constructions involving the preposition ta’ ‘of’. The paper by Lucas and...
Catherine Paris (éd.), Revue d'Ethnolinguistique. Diasystème et longue durée (Cahiers du Lacito), 1999. - 17 p.
L'archipel maltais, composé de 3 îles principales dont seules Malte et Gozo sont habitées, est situé au centre géographique de la Méditerranée, à 90 km de la Sicile et 350 km de la Tunisie. La superficie totale est d'environ 500 km² (dont les 4/5 pour Malte) et la...
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1993. — 533 p. — (Semitica Viva 11). — ISBN: 3-447-03342-8. A thorough analysis of major aspects of Maltese syntax, particularly the verbal phrase, by one of the leading experts. C' est une impression agréable, exaltante même, que de voir réalisé par un de ses élèves, d'une manière qui lui paraît accomplie, un travail qu' il regrettait de ne pas être en...
Date: 1827
Pages: 157
Una lingua naturalmente costituita senza il soccorso 4ella scrittura, com' è la superstite Maltese, e da se stessa tutte letteraria, perchè in tutte le sue dizioni si scuopre etimo* logica, merita a qualunque titolo Г attenzione de' Filologi, e specialmente de' letterati Orientalisti* Per questo riflesso essa non merita meno up attenzione particolare e...
Publisher: LEGHORN
Date: 1831
Pages: 352
Those nations, which in different epochs successively ruled over the Island of Malta, coincided, it seems, in one opinion, namely, in keeping in the s* Ae of barbarism the language of the indiginous. They pretended that the maltese were to come to the knowledge of aforeign language by no other means, bit by the oral communication of...
Revue du monde musulman, 1994. - 18 p. Pendant longtemps les linguistes se sont interrogés sur la disparition de toute trace d'une langue précédente, punique, latine ou grecque, dans la topo nymie maltaise 1. De même, les archéologues se sont étonnés de l'absence de restes de la période arabe à Malte, les plus anciens vestiges remontant à l'époque où les Normands avaient déjà...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. — 330 p. — (Studia Typologica 24). This volume brings together a dozen papers on various aspects of Maltese, relevant also for the study of related languages and general descriptive and typological linguistics. The diachronic section begins with an analysis of the place of Maltese in its North African context (Souag). Avram and van Putten then provide...
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