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  2. Faculty of Arts
  3. Department of Maltese
  4. Journal of Maltese Studies
  5. 2023
  6. JMS, Volume 30
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dc.contributor.authorČéplö, Slavomír-
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-17T11:27:44Z-
dc.date.available2024-09-17T11:27:44Z-
dc.date.issued2023-
dc.identifier.citationČéplö, S. (2023). Constituent order in Maltese : a quantitative reevaluation. Journal of Maltese Studies, 30, 111-147en_GB
dc.identifier.isbn9789993279570-
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/126714-
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the question of constituent order in Maltese in light of major approaches to it and previous descriptions of Maltese. Using a syntactically annotated corpus (treebank), a quantitative analysis of constituent order in various clause types is performed. This analysis confirms that the default order in Maltese is SVO (with VS in existential clauses as the only exception). Furthermore, it is found that the constituent order in Maltese is quite rigid, more akin to English than – as has been previously argued – to languages with pragmatically determined order.en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherUniversity of Malta. Dipartiment tal-Maltien_GB
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_GB
dc.subjectMaltese language -- Grammaren_GB
dc.subjectMaltese language -- Coordinate constructionsen_GB
dc.subjectGrammar, Comparative and general -- Coordinate constructionsen_GB
dc.subjectLanguage and languages -- Orthography and spellingen_GB
dc.titleConstituent order in Maltese : a quantitative reevaluationen_GB
dc.typearticleen_GB
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dc.publication.titleJournal of Maltese Studiesen_GB
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