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Constituent order in Maltese : a quantitative reevaluation
| Title: | Constituent order in Maltese : a quantitative reevaluation |
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| Authors: | Čéplö, Slavomír |
| Publisher Information: | University of Malta. Dipartiment tal-Malti, 2023. |
| Publication Year: | 2023 |
| Subject Terms: | Maltese language -- Grammar, Grammar, Comparative and general -- Coordinate constructions, Language and languages -- Orthography and spelling, Maltese language -- Coordinate constructions |
| Description: | This 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. peer-reviewed |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Access URL: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/126714 |
| Accession Number: | edsair.od......3549..1585c62484785eab6355d0fd9484a28c |
| Database: | OpenAIRE |
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