Maris Camilleri
List of John Benjamins publications in which Maris Camilleri is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2950-1806 | E‑ISSN 2950‑1792
2025 Chapter 7. The rise of the pseudo-verb category in Arabic The Diachrony of Word Class Peripheries, Ackermann, Tanja and Christian Zimmer (eds.), pp. 157–183 | Chapter
Across Arabic (and Semitic at large) exists a finite set of items that have grammaticalised a number of lexical and functional verbal roles and whose original sources include nouns and prepositions. Synchronically, these form a peripheral category referred to as pseudo-verbs (or verboids) in the… read more
2025 On the interplay between case and focus in Classical and dialectal Arabic systems Arabic Linguistics 1:1, pp. 34–56 | Article
Dialectal tanwīn and nom-case in Classical Arabic are compared for the first time from within an analytical syntactic approach. acc/non-nom-marking as manifest through the former is argued to reflect the same focus expressed through nom-distribution within the Classical system. The nom-to-acc… read more
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