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Introduction (2023)
Book Chapter
(2023). Introduction. In S. Louhichi (Ed.), Studies of Djaït’s Work on Early Islam (7-16). EB-Verlag

The typology of negation across varieties of Arabic (2022)
Journal Article
Lucas, C., & Alluhaybi, M. (2022). The typology of negation across varieties of Arabic. STUF - Language Typology and Universals, 75(4), 613-641. https://doi.org/10.1515/stuf-2022-1065

Drawing primarily on the data collated by Alluhaybi (2019. Negation in modern Arabic varieties from a typological point of view. London: SOAS University of London PhD thesis), this article first situates Arabic within the crosslinguistic typology of... Read More about The typology of negation across varieties of Arabic.

Nunation from Arabic to Maltese (2022)
Book Chapter
Lucas, C., & Spagnol, M. (2022). Nunation from Arabic to Maltese. In P. Turek, & J. Nintemann (Eds.), Maltese: Contemporary Changes and Historical Innovations (47-80). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110783834-003

This article discusses Maltese words containing an innovative final /n/, arguing that /n/ addition is motivated by speakers’ expectation that lexical items resemble prototypical Maltese phonological words. /n/ is added to items that deviate from this... Read More about Nunation from Arabic to Maltese.

The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. Volume II: Patterns and Processes (2020)
Book
Breitbarth, A., Lucas, C., & Willis, D. (2020). The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. Volume II: Patterns and Processes. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199602544.001.0001

This is the second book in a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. It identifies typical developments found repeatedly in the histories of different languages and explores their origins, as well... Read More about The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. Volume II: Patterns and Processes.

Definite article (omission) in British, Maltese, and other Englishes (2018)
Journal Article
Krug, M., & Lucas, C. (2018). Definite article (omission) in British, Maltese, and other Englishes. STUF - Language Typology and Universals, 71(2), 261-301. https://doi.org/10.1515/stuf-2018-0012

This article investigates factors that underlie the discrepancies in article omission between Maltese English (MaltE) and British English (BrE), with reference to further ENL, ESL and EFL varieties. We investigate seasons of the year, ordinal numbers... Read More about Definite article (omission) in British, Maltese, and other Englishes.