-ata nominalisations in Maltese: a language contact perspective

The -ata derivational suffix is attested frequently in nominalisations in Italo-Romance languages and its functions related to ‘event/single instance’ nouns have been documented extensively. This affix with these functions is also present in the derivational morphology of Maltese, in which diachron...

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Main Author: Sandro Caruana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Milano University Press 2023-09-01
Series:Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese
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Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/asgm/article/view/20526