Mediterranean Language Review 32 (2025)

The Mediterranean Language Review is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed forum for the investigation of language and culture in the Mediterranean. Articles, reviews and review articles address issues relating to multiple aspects of Mediterranean languages, past and present. Among these are essays discussing linguistic contact and diffusion in the Mediterranean area and its hinterland, as well as interaction of language and culture in the region. Sociolinguistic aspects, religion and language, and linguistic stratification with areal typology and the languages of the Mediterranean littoral are focused on. Finally, the historical evolution and present state of languages spoken by small nations and ethnic minorities, ethnolinguistic studies on island communities in the Mediterranean, the interlinguas Kultursprachen and Mediterranean Lingua Franca , as well as approaches to Mediterranean lexicology sum up the journal's objects of study. From the contents (altogether 8 contributions): Werner Diem ,Intransitives Verb und Präpositionalobjekt bei den arabischen Grammatikern des 8.-14. Jahrhunderts. Eine terminologie- und begriffsgeschichtliche Studie Aya Mohamed , Between Travesty, Transposition, and Translation: The Challenges of Reading Baha? Gahin's al-Falla? al-Fa?i? (2010) Jim Davy & Anna Panayotou , Cypriot Acrolectal Usage: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives Lumnije Jusufi , "Sie sprechen aber gut Deutsch*". Zugeschriebene Sprachidentitäten im Migrationskontext mit Bezug auf Deutschland und den Westbalkan Christopher Owain Carter , Attitudes of Speakers of Regional Languages in Spain Towards Linguistic Standardisation Efforts