L’acquisizione imperfetta di una lingua adstrato

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Campo DC	Valore
dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_5783
dc.contributor.author	Brincat Giuseppe
dc.title	L’acquisizione imperfetta di una lingua adstrato. L’italiano degli analfabeti a Malta dal Settecento al Novecento
dc.type	Capitolo
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	The fact that Maltese has adopted over 20,000 Sicilian and Italian words, including 41% of its vocabulary at the Threshold Level, shows that this is not a case of borrowing at the higher social levels. To explain this unusual phenomenon the extraordinary growth in the island’s population and its rapid development under the Knights of St John and the British government are taken into account. Whereas works written in Italian from the 16th to the 20th century are abundant, and their quality is not inferior to those written in Italy, little is known about the efforts made by illiterate persons to speak the high language. The paper presents a few symptomatic comments and samples from the past, and from the present.
dc.relation.ispartof	SAIL
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2021-05-24
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-10-16
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-502-5/lacquisizione-imperfetta-di-una-lingua-adstrato/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-501-8/001
dc.identifier.issn	2610-9549
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9557
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-502-5
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-501-8
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Dialogue
dc.subject	Dialogue
dc.subject	Illiteracy
dc.subject	Illiteracy
dc.subject	Immigration
dc.subject	Immigration
dc.subject	Language contact
dc.subject	Language contact
dc.subject	Lexicon
dc.subject	Lexicon

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L’acquisizione imperfetta di una lingua adstrato

L’italiano degli analfabeti a Malta dal Settecento al Novecento

Giuseppe Brincat L-Università ta’ Malta, Malta

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abstract

The fact that Maltese has adopted over 20,000 Sicilian and Italian words, including 41% of its vocabulary at the Threshold Level, shows that this is not a case of borrowing at the higher social levels. To explain this unusual phenomenon the extraordinary growth in the island’s population and its rapid development under the Knights of St John and the British government are taken into account. Whereas works written in Italian from the 16th to the 20th century are abundant, and their quality is not inferior to those written in Italy, little is known about the efforts made by illiterate persons to speak the high language. The paper presents a few symptomatic comments and samples from the past, and from the present.

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24 Maggio 2021

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16 Ottobre 2020

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ISBN (PRINT)

978-88-6969-502-5

ISBN (EBOOK)

978-88-6969-501-8

Keywords: Illiteracy • Immigration • Language contact • Lexicon • Dialogue

permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-501-8/001

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