Maris Camilleri
List of John Benjamins publications for which Maris Camilleri plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 2950-1806 | E-ISSN 2950-1792
Articles
2023 Raising in Arabic: Forms and structures Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIV: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Tucson, Arizona, 2020, Azaz, Mahmoud (ed.), pp. 153–184 | Chapter
While raising has been allegedly claimed to not exist in Arabic, we here present data from the vernacular varieties to illustrate how these have lexicalized and grammaticalized innovative lexical raising predicates meaning ‘seem, appear, as though’, and by association, the grammaticalization of… read more
2018 The avertive and proximative grams in Maltese using the auxiliary għodd New Trends in Grammaticalization and Language Change, Hancil, Sylvie, Tine Breban and José Vicente Lozano (eds.), pp. 231–256 | Chapter
Maltese has grammaticalised an avertive construction involving a perfective lexical verb in combination with the auxiliary għodd; itself a grammaticalisation from a lexical verb, which as in the rest of the Arabic vernaculars means ‘count’, but which in Classical Arabic also means… read more