Study-Unit Description

Study-Unit Description


CODE MAL3006

 
TITLE Oqsma Sintattici fil-Malti

 
UM LEVEL 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course

 
MQF LEVEL 6

 
ECTS CREDITS 2

 
DEPARTMENT Maltese

 
DESCRIPTION Kors b'kontenut li jvarja skont l-interess attwali fir-riċerka sintattika tal-Malti: ngħidu aħna l-ordni tal-kliem, it-topikalizzazzjoni u l-problema tal-immarkar tal-oġġett.

Għanijiet tal-Kors:

L-iskop hu li l-istudent ikollu l-opportunità li jiffamiljarizza ruħu ma' oqsma attwali fir-riċerka fis-sintassi tal-Malti.

Kisbiet mit-Tagħlim:

1. Tagħlim:

L-istudent ikun jista' jifhem xogħol ta' natura avvanzata u ta' diffikultà adatta għat-tielet sena tal-kors.

2. Ħiliet:

L-istudent ikun jista' hu stess jagħmel it-tip ta' analiżi sintattika li tiġi ppreżentata fil-kors.

Biblijografija:

- Azzopardi, K. (2022). Phasal verbs in the Maltese verb sequence. L-Università ta’ Malta, Teżi tal-Maġisteru.
- Azzopardi, K. (2022). The verb sequence V1+V2 in Maltese. In P. Turek & J. Nintemann (eds.), Maltese: Contemporary Changes and Historical Innovations (pp. 83-104). De Gruyter Mouton.
- Borg, A. & Comrie, B. (1984). “Object diffuseness in Maltese”, in F. Plank (ed.), Objects. Towards a Theory of Grammatical Relations. London: Academic Press.
- Borg, A. (1988). Ilsienna: Studju Grammatikali. Malta.
- Borg, A. (1996). “The structure of the noun phrase in Maltese”, Rivista di Linguistica, 8:1 (The Maltese Noun Phrase meets Typology), pp. 5-28.
- Borg, A. & Azzopardi-Alexander, M. (1997). Maltese. Lingua Descriptive Grammars. Londra u New York: Routledge, pp. 1-135.
- Borg, A. & Mifsud, M. (2002). "Maltese object marking in a Mediterranean context", in P. Ramat & T. Stolz (eds.), Mediterranean Languages. Papers from the MEDTYP Work-shop, Tirrenia, June 2000, 33-46. Bochum: Brockmeyer.
- Borg, A. & Azzopardi-Alexander, M. (2009). "Topicalisation in Maltese'. In Comrie, B. et al. (eds.), Introducing Maltese Linguistics, 71-81. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Fabri, R. & Borg, A. (2002). "Topic, Focus and Word Order in Maltese". In: Y. Abderrahim et al. (eds.), Aspects of the Dialects of Arabic Today. Proceedings of the 4th Conference of the International Arabic Dialectology Association (AIDA). Marrakesh, Apr. 1-4. 2000. Rabat: Amapatril, 354-363.

 
STUDY-UNIT TYPE Lecture

 
METHOD OF ASSESSMENT
Assessment Component/s Assessment Due Sept. Asst Session Weighting
Examination (1 Hour) SEM2 Yes 100%

 
LECTURER/S Kirsty Azzopardi

 

 
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