Maltese
WALS coordinates: 35° 55′ N, 14° 25′ E
spoken in Malta
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Alternative Names
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Features
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| 9A | The Velar Nasal | No velar nasal | Phonology | comment | |
| 14A | Fixed Stress Locations | No fixed stress | Phonology | comment | |
| 15A | Weight-Sensitive Stress | Right-edge: Ultimate or penultimate | Phonology | comment | |
| 16A | Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems | Combined | Phonology | comment | |
| 17A | Rhythm Types | Undetermined | Phonology | comment | |
| 30A | Number of Genders | Two | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 31A | Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems | Sex-based | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 32A | Systems of Gender Assignment | Semantic and formal | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 34A | Occurrence of Nominal Plurality | All nouns, always obligatory | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 36A | The Associative Plural | Unique periphrastic associative plural | Nominal Categories |
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| 41A | Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives | Two-way contrast | Nominal Categories |
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| 42A | Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives | Identical | Nominal Categories |
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| 43A | Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives | Related by gender markers | Nominal Categories |
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| 46A | Indefinite Pronouns | Generic-noun-based | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 47A | Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns | Identical | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 52A | Comitatives and Instrumentals | Differentiation | Nominal Categories |
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| 53A | Ordinal Numerals | First, two-th, three-th | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 62A | Action Nominal Constructions | Double-Possessive | Nominal Syntax |
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| 63A | Noun Phrase Conjunction | 'And' different from 'with' | Nominal Syntax | comment | |
| 65A | Perfective/Imperfective Aspect | Grammatical marking | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 66A | The Past Tense | Present, no remoteness distinctions | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 67A | The Future Tense | No inflectional future | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 68A | The Perfect | No perfect | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 70A | The Morphological Imperative | Second singular and second plural | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 71A | The Prohibitive | Special imperative + special negative | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 72A | Imperative-Hortative Systems | Neither type of system | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 74A | Situational Possibility | Verbal constructions | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 75A | Epistemic Possibility | Verbal constructions | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 76A | Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking | Overlap for both possibility and necessity | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 79A | Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect | None | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 79B | Suppletion in Imperatives and Hortatives | Imperative | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 80A | Verbal Number and Suppletion | None | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 105A | Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' | Indirect-object construction | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 115A | Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation | Mixed behaviour | Simple Clauses |
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| 117A | Predicative Possession | Locational | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 118A | Predicative Adjectives | Nonverbal encoding | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 119A | Nominal and Locational Predication | Identical | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 120A | Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals | Possible | Simple Clauses |
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| 121A | Comparative Constructions | Locational | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 138A | Tea | Words derived from Min Nan Chinese te | Lexicon |
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| 142A | Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks | Logical meanings | Other | comment |
