Author: Manwel Mifsud
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004100916
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
A description of the processes by which, over centuries of large-scale contact, Romance (Old Sicilian and Italian) and English verbs have been integrated to varying degrees into the Arabic structure of Maltese. Loan verbs are analysed and classified into categories ranging from fully naturalised verbs to undigested loans.