Some phonological changes in Maltese reflected in onomastics

The present paper evaluates the onomastic evidence for some of the changes affecting consonants in the history of Maltese. The analysis is based on a rich corpus of surnames, nicknames and place-names recorded between early 15th century and late 18th century. Onomastics is shown to offer valuable in...

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Main Author: Andrei A. Avram
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2012-01-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/some_phonological_changes_in_maltese_reflected_in_onomastics