This is a revised and enlarged version of a report that I submitted to the University Grants
Commission, New Delhi, in 1994. The report, entitled Tense, Aspect and Mood in Indian …

This work is an investigation on the morphology and lexical semantics of verbs in Mal-‐tese,
a language which typologically stands between Semitic and Romance languages, as it is …

Maltese is the national language of Malta and an official language of the European Union.
While classified as Semitic, Maltese has been heavily influenced by the Romance …

This paper discusses a construction found in contemporary Arabic ver-naculars (but not in
Modern Standard Arabic (henceforth MSA)) which con-stitutes an instance of a common …

It is standardly assumed that Arabic copula constructions with present tense interpretation
involve either a 'null'copula or a 'pronominal'copula. This paper provides evidence that some …

We present in this chapter some basic linguistic facts about Semitic languages, covering
orthography, morphology, and syntax. We focus on Arabic (both standard and dialectal) …

This study aims to better understand the realisation of grammatical tense and aspect in
Maltese. We first consider the different temporal and aspectual interpretations related with …

Universität Osnabrück is study deals with the so-called pseudo-verbs of Maltese, a small,
closed part-of-speech category specialized for (co-) predication but whose members are not …

Due to migration, at least 100,000 speakers of English with a Maltese background (including
approximately 50,000 speakers of Maltese, a language historically derived from Arabic; see …

This paper makes a contribution to our understanding of free relative clauses (frc s) in
Maltese, in particular so-called plain, standard or non-ever free relative clauses. We …