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60 University of Bremen - Proceedings https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/fb-10/studium/linguistik/forschung/forschungseinrichtungen/ghilm/publications/proceedings Proceedings of the International Association of Maltese Linguistics en University of Bremen Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:42:08 +0200 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:42:08 +0200 University of Bremen content-547464 Thu, 21 Sep 2023 12:31:46 +0200 8th International Conference on Maltese Linguistics https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/fb-10/studium/linguistik/forschung/forschungseinrichtungen/ghilm/publications/proceedings#c547464 1. Selected papers - editors: Raffaello Bezzina, Michela Vella and Maike Vorholt - the deadline will be set later on - papers in English, abstracts will be in Maltese and English - publishing house: De Gruyter Mouton, Studia Typologica - Title: “The next century of Maltese linguistics” - should include a preface that refers to the title (Slavomír Čéplö offered to write it) 2. Għilm conference 2025 - 3 options: 1. Bucharest: Andrei Avram will give a definite answer soon 2. Düsseldorf: 2025 (in case Bucharest is not possible), 2027&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3. Għilm 2027 - 20th anniversary of Għilm 1. Düsseldorf 2. Gozo (since it will be the anniversary) 4. Il-katidral (project by Slavomír Čéplö) - first metalanguage is needed - glossing guidelines - need for balanced corpus (written and spoken) - funding for (at least) parts of the topics in the project - Sandra Vella: proposal for collecting data on spoken Maltese - will be discussed again in a few months Content content-451103 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:53:23 +0100 7th Lingwistika Maltija https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/fb-10/studium/linguistik/forschung/forschungseinrichtungen/ghilm/publications/proceedings#c451103 <a href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110783834/html" target="_blank" title="Öffnet externen Link in neuem Fenster">Turek, Przemyslaw&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Julia Nintemann&nbsp;(eds.). 2022.&nbsp;Maltese: Contemporary Changes and Historical Innovations.&nbsp;(STTYP 30). Berlin &amp;&nbsp;Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.</a> PART I: LEXICON <a class="externalLink" href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110783834-001/html" target="_blank" title="Öffnet externen Link in neuem Fenster">The Semantic structure of adjectives referring to the holiness in Maltese and Arabic languages</a> Sebastian Bednaowicz <a class="externalLink" href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110783834-002/html" target="_blank" title="Öffnet externen Link in neuem Fenster">The lexical&nbsp;ta'&nbsp;construction</a> Ray Fabri <a class="externalLink" href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110783834-003/html" target="_blank" title="Öffnet externen Link in neuem Fenster">Nunation from Arabic to Maltese</a> Christopher Lucas &amp; Michael Spagnol PART II: SYNTAX <a class="externalLink" href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110783834-004/html" target="_blank" title="Öffnet externen Link in neuem Fenster">The Verb sequence V1+V2 in Maltese</a> Kirsty Azzopardi <a href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110783834-005/html">Differential object indexing in Maltese – a corpus based pilot study</a> Erika Just &amp;&nbsp;Slavomír Čéplö PART III: MORPHOSYNTAX <a href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110783834-006/html">Arabic prepositions and their Maltese equivalents</a> Przemysław Turek <a class="externalLink" href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110783834-007/html" target="_blank" title="Öffnet externen Link in neuem Fenster">On WH-PREPS. A contrastive grammatical sketch of Maltese fejn and Spanish donde/dónde</a> Thomas Stolz &amp; Maike Vorholt <a href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110783834-008/html">Can frequency predict length? A crosslinguistic investigation of Zipf’s law for European adpositions</a> Maike Vorholt PART IV: PHONOLOGY <a href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110783834-009/html">Regressive voicing assimilation in Maltese: Diachrony and typology</a> Andrei A. Avram Content content-547454 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:53:23 +0100 6th Lingwistika Maltija https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/fb-10/studium/linguistik/forschung/forschungseinrichtungen/ghilm/publications/proceedings#c547454 <a class="externalLink" href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110672268/html" target="_blank" title="Öffnet externen Link in neuem Fenster">Čéplö, Slavomír and Jaroslav Drobný (eds.). 2020. Maltese Linguistics on the Danube (STTYP 24). Berlin &amp; Boston: De Gruyter Mouton</a>. PART I: HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS Maltese and North African linguistics: Common roots and areal divergence Lameen Souag The diachrony of word-final obstruent devoicing in Maltese Andrei A. Avram The history of the Maltese short vowels Marijn van Putten An observation on the ḥāl construction in Maltese Sumikazu Yoda Minsel. An etymological database for lexemes of Arabic origin in Maltese Kurstin Gatt PART II: SYNTAX Will it agree or not? Syntactic overgeneralization leading to agreement mismatches in Maltese Mark Amaira und Albert Borg Argument extension in Maltese Ray Fabri Lanqas, negative concord and predicate negation in Maltese Slavomír Čéplö und Christopher Lucas From variation towards the grammar of Maltese prepositions – first steps Thomas Stolz und Nataliya Levkovych Form and behavior of Maltese prepositions – A usage-based approach Emeli Schmidt, Maike Vorholt und Nele Witt PART III: PHONOLOGY To be or not to be an affricate – affricated stops in Maltese Marie Azzopardi-Alexander Revisiting the definite article in Maltese Luke Galea und Leanne Ellul Content content-547455 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:53:23 +0100 5th Lingwistika Maltija https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/fb-10/studium/linguistik/forschung/forschungseinrichtungen/ghilm/publications/proceedings#c547455 <a href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110565744/html" target="_blank" title="Öffnet externen Link in neuem Fenster">Saade, Benjamin &amp; Mauro Tosco (eds.). 2017.&nbsp;Advances in Maltese Linguistics. (Studia Typologica 21). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.</a> Benjamin Saade and Mauro Tosco Maltese linguistics: What is new? Part 1: New looks into the past Andrei A. Avram On the phonology of Sicilian Arabic and early Maltese&nbsp; Carles Biosca and Carles Castellanos Aspects of the comparison between Maltese, Mediterranean Lingua Franca and the Occitan-Catalan linguistic group Part 2: Maltese, and just Maltese Ray Fabri and Albert Borg Modifiers and complements within the Maltese verb sequence Slavomír “bulbul” Čéplö Focus particles in Maltese: A corpus survey&nbsp; Thomas Stolz and Carolin Ahrens On prepositional ellipsis and the factors which block its application in Maltese Part 3: Beyond Maltese, now and then Amany Al-Sayyed and David Wilmsen Verbal negation with muš in Maltese and Eastern Mediterranean Arabics Gilbert Puech Maltese kiteb vs. Tunisian (Sūsa) ktib&nbsp; Marie Azzopardi-Alexander The phonetic study of speakers along the Maltese-English continuum&nbsp; Lydia Sciriha The visibility and salience of Maltese in bilingual Malta’s linguistic landscape&nbsp; Kees Versteegh The myth of the mixed languages Content content-547456 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:53:23 +0100 4th Lingwistika Maltija https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/fb-10/studium/linguistik/forschung/forschungseinrichtungen/ghilm/publications/proceedings#c547456 <a href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110496376/html" target="_blank" title="Öffnet externen Link in neuem Fenster">Puech, Gilbert and Benjamin Saade (eds.). 2016.&nbsp;Shifts and Patterns in Maltese (STTYP 19). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.</a> Martine Vanhove:&nbsp;From Maltese phonology to morphogenesis: A tribute to David Cohen Part I: Phonology Gilbert Puech: Minimalist representation of Maltese sounds Andrei A. Avram: Phonological changes in Maltese: Evidence from onomastics Alexandra Vella, Flavia Chetcuti and Sarah Agius: Lengthening as a discourse strategy in Maltese: Phonetic and phonological characteristics Part II: Morphology &amp; Syntax Maris Camilleri: How inflectional morphology meets subcategorization frame distinctions in Maltese&nbsp; Hans-Jörg Döhla: The origin of differential object marking in Maltese&nbsp; David Wilmsen: Polar interrogative -š in Maltese: Developments and antecedents&nbsp; Thomas Stolz and Benjamin Saade: On short and long forms of personal pronouns in Maltese&nbsp; Christopher Lucas and Michael Spagnol: Connecting /t/ in Maltese numerals&nbsp; Part III: Contact, Bilingualism &amp; Technology George Farrugia: Languages in contact. Is the gender assignment system in Maltese undergoing change?&nbsp; Bernard Comrie and Michael Spagnol: Maltese loanword typology&nbsp; Marie Azzopardi-Alexander: Language profiling: The weaving of Maltese and English in Maltese children’s conversations&nbsp; John J. Camilleri: Digitizing the grammar and vocabulary of Maltese&nbsp; Content content-547459 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:53:23 +0100 3rd Lingwistika Maltija https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/fb-10/studium/linguistik/forschung/forschungseinrichtungen/ghilm/publications/proceedings#c547459 <a class="externalLink" href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1524/9783050065144/html" target="_blank" title="Öffnet externen Link in neuem Fenster">Borg, Albert; Caruana, Sandro &amp; Alexandra Vella (eds.). 2014.&nbsp;Perspectives on Maltese Linguistics (STTYP 14). München: Akademie Verlag.</a> Historical Studies Arnold Cassola - A note on the dating of ħ, għ and x in Maltese Martin R. Zammit - The Sfaxi (Tunisian) element in Maltese Daniele Baglioni-&nbsp; Italian loanwords in Maltese and the vocabulary od "Levant Italian" Phonological Studies Gilbert Puech - Prime constituents od Maltese sounds Alexandra Vella, Michael Spagnol, Sarah Grech &amp; Flavia Chetcuti - The role of silence in spoken Maltese: durational and distributional characteristics of breaks and pauses Morphological Studies Phyllisienne Gauci &amp; Maris Camilleri - Syncretism in Maltese: the case of the dual Thomas Mayer, MIchael Spagnol &amp; Florian Schönberger - Fixing the broken plural in Maltese Syntactic Studies Maris Camilleri - The Maltese restrictive relative clause Slavomír "Bulbul" Čéplö - An overview of object reduplication in Maltese Christopher Lucas - Indefinites and negative concord in Maltese: towards a dynamic account Thomas Stolz -&nbsp;It-tlieta li aħna&nbsp;= the three of us. Numerically quantified person reference Maltese in the digital age Mark Borg, Keith Bugeja, Colin Vella, Gordon Mangion &amp; Carmel Gafà - Preparation of a free-runing text corpus for Maltese concatenative speech synthesis Lara Vella - Language used in Internet chatting and its effect on spelling Content content-547458 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:53:23 +0100 2nd Lingwistika Maltija https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/fb-10/studium/linguistik/forschung/forschungseinrichtungen/ghilm/publications/proceedings#c547458 <a class="externalLink" href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1524/9783050057200/html" target="_blank" title="Öffnet externen Link in neuem Fenster">Caruana, Sandro, Fabri, Ray and Tomas Stolz (eds.). 2012.&nbsp;Variation and Change: The Dynamics of Maltese in Space, Time and Society (STTYP 9). Berlin: Akademie Verlag.</a> Part I: The Lexicon and Variation Albert Borg: Lectal variation in Maltese Joseph M. Brincat: Describing literary Maltese: concordances to Dun Karm and Rużar Briffa Antoinette Camilleri Grima: Giving compliments in Maltese Lara Brincat &amp; Sandro Caruana: il-Malti Mgħaġġel - Maltese in computer-mediated chat conversations Ray Fabri: The language of young people and language change in Malta Laura Mori: Linguistic variation in legal Maltese - EU directives compared to national implementation laws Part II: Morphology and Syntax Maris Camilleri: On pronominal verbal enclitics in Maltese Michael Spagnol: The causative-inchoative alternation in Maltese Thomas Stolz: The possessive relative clause in Maltese Part III: Phonology Marie Azzopardi-Alexander: The vowel system of Xlukkajr and Naduri Alexandra Vella, Michael Spagnol, Sarah Grech &amp; Flavia Chetcuti: A preliminary investigation of filled pauses in Maltese Gilbert Puech: Syllabic structure and stress in Maltese Content content-547457 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:53:23 +0100 1st Lingwistika Maltija https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/fb-10/studium/linguistik/forschung/forschungseinrichtungen/ghilm/publications/proceedings#c547457 <a class="externalLink" href="https://www.benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.113" target="_blank" title="Öffnet externen Link in neuem Fenster">Comrie, B., Fabri, R., Mifsud, M., Stolz, T., &amp; Vanhove, M. (eds.). 2009.&nbsp;Introducing Maltese Linguistics. Selected papers from the 1st International Conference on Maltese Linguistics, Bremen, 18–20 October, 2007.&nbsp;Studies in Language Companion Series, 113. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins.</a> PART I. TYPOLOGY Maltese and the World Atlas of Language Structures Bernard Comrie PART II. PHONOLOGY Vowel duration and Maltese 'għ' Elizabeth Hume,&nbsp;Jennifer Venditti,&nbsp;Alexandra Vella and&nbsp;Samantha Gett On Maltese prosody Alexandra Vella PART III. SYNTAX Topicalisation in Maltese Albert Borg and&nbsp;Marie Azzopardi-Alexander A head-driven phrase structure grammar for Maltese Stefan Müller&nbsp; Complex predicates in Maltese: From a neo-Arabic perspective Utz Maas&nbsp; Splitting the verb chain in modern literary Maltese Thomas Stolz "Pseudo-verbs": An analysis of non-verbal (co-)predication in Maltese John Peterson PART IV. LEXICON AND ELECTRONIC RESOURCES Compounding and adjective-noun compounds in Maltese Ray Fabri&nbsp; Auditory and visual lexical decision in Maltese Adam Ussishkin and&nbsp;Alina Twist Electronic language resources for Maltese Michael Rosner PART V. LANGUAGE CHANGE AND CONTACT The Vowel system of Cantilena: Its historical development Sumikazu Yoda The shaping of Maltese throughout the centuries: Linguistic evidences from a diachronic-typological analysis Laura Mori "Imma l'oriġinal oriġinali?": A noun-adjective opposition in some Maltese word-classes of Romance origin Manwel Mifsud&nbsp; A different kind of gender problem: Maltese loan-word gender from a typological perspective Christel Stolz Terminology of Italian origin used in EU Maltese: A case of linguistic "Europeanisation"? Sandro Caruana&nbsp; PART VI. SOCIOLINGUISTICS Diglossia: Variation on a theme Antoinette&nbsp;Camilleri Grima Maltese English: History of use, structural variation and sociolinguistic status Lisa&nbsp;M. Bonnici&nbsp; Content content-547461 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:53:23 +0100 8th International Conference on Maltese Linguistics https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/fb-10/studium/linguistik/forschung/forschungseinrichtungen/ghilm/publications/proceedings#c547461 1. Selected papers - editors: Raffaello Bezzina, Michela Vella and Maike Vorholt - the deadline will be set later on - papers in English, abstracts will be in Maltese and English - publishing house: De Gruyter Mouton, Studia Typologica - Title: “The next century of Maltese linguistics” - should include a preface that refers to the title (Slavomír Čéplö offered to write it) 2. Għilm conference 2025 - 3 options: 1. Bucharest: Andrei Avram will give a definite answer soon 2. Düsseldorf: 2025 (in case Bucharest is not possible), 2027&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3. Għilm 2027 - 20th anniversary of Għilm 1. Düsseldorf 2. Gozo (since it will be the anniversary) 4. Il-katidral (project by Slavomír Čéplö) - first metalanguage is needed - glossing guidelines - need for balanced corpus (written and spoken) - funding for (at least) parts of the topics in the project - Sandra Vella: proposal for collecting data on spoken Maltese - will be discussed again in a few months Content