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Introducing Maltese Linguistics Studies in Language Companion Series (SLCS) This series has been established as a companion series to the periodical Studies in Language. Editors Werner Abraham University of Vienna Michael Noonan University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Editorial Board Joan Bybee Christian Lehmann Ulrike Claudi Robert E. Longacre Bernard Comrie Brian MacWhinney University of New Mexico University of Cologne Max Planck Institute, Leipzig University of California, Santa Barbara William Croft University of New Mexico Östen Dahl University of Stockholm Gerrit J. Dimmendaal University of Cologne Ekkehard König Free University of Berlin University of Erfurt University of Texas, Arlington Carnegie-Mellon University Marianne Mithun University of California, Santa Barbara Edith Moravcsik University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Masayoshi Shibatani Rice University and Kobe University Russell S. Tomlin University of Oregon Volume 113 Introducing Maltese Linguistics. Edited by Bernard Comrie, Ray Fabri, Elizabeth Hume, Manwel Mifsud, Thomas Stolz and Martine Vanhove Introducing Maltese Linguistics Edited by Bernard Comrie Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Ray Fabri University of Malta Elizabeth Hume Ohio State University Manwel Mifsud University of Malta Thomas Stolz University of Bremen Martine Vanhove CNRS-LLACAN John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia 8 TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Pri