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La Mediterraneità come Sintesi di Culture
This essay seeks to identify the main aspects of the cultural identity of Malta as a microscopic manifestation of the various traits which may build up the Mediterranean culture. It outlines the historical development of the ancient language spoken by the Maltese and explains how Maltese literature eventually became a document of the historical and cultural identity of the whole population. Malta is an island, and this fact determines diverse components of Maltese identity. The concept of an islander is thus interpreted as one of the main sources from which the Maltese view of life derives.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
Journal Article
The Shaping of Maltese throughout the Centuries: Linguistic Evidence from a Diachronic-Typological Analysis
Throughout the centuries the Maltese morphological system has undergone restructuring with the integration of morphological processes from Romance languages & it was affected by mixture with a Semitic & Romance component. Thus a series of contact-induced changes have shaped Maltese as a \"mixed type.\" Linguistic evidence of the processes of restructuring & mixture can be found in early written documents in Maltese. The objective of this typological-diachronic analysis is to present some evidence of the shaping of Maltese found in a corpus of Maltese texts (XVIIIth-XIXth centuries), by applying methodological tools developed in the field of Contact Linguistics.
Book Chapter
The Vowel System of Cantilena: Its historical Development
The main obstacle in the historical study of Arabic dialectology is the scarcity of old documents written in any dialect. Maltese, originating from the Arabic dialects of North Africa, possesses a very curious early poem called Cantilena from the 15th century. Because Maltese had been isolated from the norm of literary Arabic since the 12th century, this poem was written in a dialectal form with the Latin alphabet, thus providing us with much interesting material. In this study I will analyse the vowel system of the language of Cantilena comparing it with that of other Arabic dialects of the Middle Ages & the present day. It will be shown that the linguistic characteristics of the vowel systems observed in modern Arabic dialects of North Africa, especially the dialect of Tunisia, are shared with the 15th century Maltese represented in Cantilena.
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