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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/92683| Title: | Maltese loanword typology |
| Other Titles: | Shifts and patterns in Maltese |
| Authors: | Comrie, Bernard Spagnol, Michael |
| Keywords: | Language and languages -- Foreign words and phrases Typology (Linguistics) Maltese language -- Etymology Maltese language -- Foreign elements Maltese language -- Terminology |
| Issue Date: | 2016 |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter Mouton |
| Citation: | Comrie, B., & Spagnol, M. (2016). Maltese loanword typology. In G. Puech, & B. Saade, (Eds.), Shifts and patterns in Maltese (pp. 315-330). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. |
| Abstract: | Etymological analysis of the Maltese lexicon within the project Loanwords in the world's languages shows Maltese to be a "high borrower", with a proportion of loanwords (35.1o/o-30.3o/o from Romance, 4.So/o from English) roughly comparable to that found in Japanese (34.9o/o) and slightly lower than that found in English (41.0o/o). The breakdown according to semantic field and part of speech yields largely expected results, though Maltese has an unusually high percentage of borrowed kinship terms. A number of individual examples are discussed to illustrate particular methodological points. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/92683 |
| ISBN: | 9783110495638 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacArtMal |
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