Prepositions and their Grammar in Maltese

马耳他语介词及其语法

• 批准号: 412858441
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Thomas Stolz
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Fach Linguistik
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/412858441?language=en
• 关键词: Prepositions; their; Grammar; Maltese

The project seeks to describe the system of Maltese prepositions comprehensively. In the extant literature on Maltese language structures prepositions are not in the focus of interest. Thus relatively little is known about many aspects of their grammar and functional domain. There is as yet no consensus among the specialists about the size of the inventory of Maltese prepositions. The counts put forward in the literature oscillate between 17 and 44 prepositions. A review of previous proposals published since the 1930s reveals that there is disagreement as to what qualifies as a preposition. Difficulties arise in connection with the distinction of proper prepositions from other word classes such as adverbs. The possibility to have binary sequences of prepositions poses the general problem of determining the syntactic relation between the two prepositions. Only insufficient attention, if at all, has been payed not only to the interaction of prepositions and different classes of complements but also to the delimitation of the domains of (at least superficially) synonymous prepositions. To provide an adequate description of the synchronic systematicity of Maltese prepositions, the project aims at providing a handbook of Maltese prepositions which comprises five chapters, namely (A) a general introduction, (B) a commented dictionary with ample illustration of structural and functional phenomena associated with Maltese prepositions, (C) a grammar that results from the properties of the individual prepositions described in the dictionary, (D) the typological evaluation of the Maltese facts, and (E) the general conclusions as to the bearing the Maltese findings have on the general theory of prepositions. For the dictionary and the grammar, all levels from phonology via morphology and syntax to semantics are scrutinized. Among the topics which are specifically raised in Parts (B) and (C), there is, on the one hand, the possibility of dropping spatial prepositions like fi 'in' in combination with a toponymic complement and, on the other hand, the differential application of Equi-P-deletion under coordination. The project starts from the assumption that the system of Maltese prepositions can be captured in the format of a continuum or a radial category. To check the tenability of this working hypothesis the principles of the prototype approach to linguistic phenomena are adopted. The methodology is strictly qualitative and is indebted to Basic Linguistic Theory. More generally the project is situated in the framework of functional typology. The Maltese data are analysed exclusively from the synchronic perspective. The empirical foundation is provided by the Korpus Malti with a size of 250 million words. The results of this project will be made available in an open access publication. The project will provide students of Maltese, experts of adpositional systems, and typologists with valuable new data to be taken into account in their future research.

该项目旨在全面描述马耳他介词的系统。在现有的关于马耳他语言结构的文献中，介词不是关注的重点。因此，关于其语法和功能领域的许多方面，相对较少了解。专家之间尚未就马耳他介词清单的规模达成共识。文献中提出的计数在17至44个介词之间振荡。对自1930年代以来发表的先前提案的评论表明，关于介词的资格是有分歧的。与其他单词类（例如副词）的适当介词的区别有关。具有介词二进制序列的可能性提出了确定两个介词之间句法关系的一般问题。只有没有足够的关注（如果有的话）不仅要用于介词和不同类别的补充类别的相互作用，而且还用于（至少在表面上）同义词介词的域的界定。为了提供有关马耳他介词同步系统性的充分描述，该项目旨在提供马耳他介词手册，其中包括五章，即（a）一般介绍，（b）评论的词典，带有足够的结构和功能现象的说明与马耳他介词相关，（c）语法是由词典中描述的单个介词的特性所产生的，（d）对马耳他事实的类型学评估，以及（e）关于马耳他发现的轴承的一般结论关于介词的一般理论。对于字典和语法，仔细检查了从语音和语法到语法到语义的所有级别。在（b）和（c）部分中专门提出的主题中，一方面，有可能将诸如fi'in'in'in''''''in topomennice补充（另一方面）掉落的可能性，另一方面，另一方面是在协调下的equepeption的差异应用。该项目始于以下假设：马耳他介词系统可以以连续性或径向类别的格式捕获。为了检查该工作假设的态度，采用了语言现象原型方法的原理。该方法严格是定性的，并且要归功于基本的语言理论。更一般而言，该项目位于功能类型的框架中。马耳他数据仅从同步角度分析。经验基础由Korpus Malti提供了2.5亿个单词。该项目的结果将在开放访问出版物中提供。该项目将为马耳他的学生，定位系统的专家和类型学家提供有价值的新数据，并在未来的研究中考虑到有价值的新数据。