1. List of contributors; 2. Preface; 3. Part I. Typology; 4. Maltese and the World Atlas of Language Structures (by Comrie, Bernard); 5. Part II. Phonology; 6. Vowel duration and Maltese 'gh' (by Hume, Elizabeth); 7. On Maltese prosody (by Vella, Alexandra); 8. Part III. Syntax; 9. Topicalisation in Maltese (by Borg, Albert); 10. A head-driven phrase structure grammar for Maltese (by Muller, Stefan); 11. Complex predicates in Maltese: From a neo-Arabic perspective (by Maas, Utz); 12. Splitting the verb chain in modern literary Maltese (by Stolz, Thomas); 13. "Pseudo-verbs": An analysis of non-verbal (co-)predication in Maltese (by Peterson, John); 14. Part IV. Lexicon and electronic resources; 15. Compounding and adjective-noun compounds in Maltese (by Fabri, Ray); 16. Auditory and visual lexical decision in Maltese (by Ussishkin, Adam); 17. Electronic language resources for Maltese (by Rosner, Michael); 18. Part V. Language change and contact; 19. The Vowel system of Cantilena: Its historical development (by Yoda, Sumikazu); 20. The shaping of Maltese throughout the centuries: Linguistic evidences from a diachronic-typological analysis (by Mori, Laura); 21. "Imma l'original originali?": A noun-adjective opposition in some Maltese word-classes of Romance origin (by Mifsud, Manwel); 22. A different kind of gender problem: Maltese loan-word gender from a typological perspective (by Stolz, Christel); 23. Terminology of Italian origin used in EU Maltese: A case of linguistic "Europeanisation"? (by Caruana, Sandro); 24. Part VI. Sociolinguistics; 25. Diglossia: Variation on a theme (by Grima, Antoinette Camilleri); 26. Maltese English: History of use, structural variation and sociolinguistic status (by Bonnici, Lisa M.); 27. Index of authors; 28. Index of languages; 29. Index of subjects