Programme

Monday, 18th September
8:30-9:00	Registration
9:00-9:30	Introduction
	plenary talk (chair Maike Vorholt)
9:30-10:30	Andrei Avram Thezan’s “Le regole per la lingua maltese” and the historical phonology of Maltese
10:30-11:00	coffee break
	session 1 (chair Slavomír Čéplö)
11:00-11:30	Michael Marinaccio The Maltese broken plural: Getting to the root of the issue
11:30-12:00	Sara Court, Andrea D. Sims, Micha Elsner Quantifying Factors Shaping the Morphological Integration of Non-Semitic Nouns in Maltese
12:00-12:30	Raffaello Bezzina Word formation in Maltese: restrictions in loan derivational suffixes
12:30-14:00	lunch break
	session 2 (chair Thomas Stolz)
14:00-14:30	Michela Vella Maltese First Language Acquisition of the Plural
14:30-15:00	Romario Sciberras Poststructuralist approaches in the study of gender-neutral possibilities in Maltese
15:00-15:30	Przemysław Turek Christian terms of Arabic or Semitic origin in Maltese
15:30-16:00	coffee break
	session 3 (chair Ray Fabri)
16:00-16:30	Jessica Schulz The Effect of Language Context on Attention in Maltese-English Bilinguals: Combining a Cognitive and Sociolinguistic Approach
16:30-17:00	Jacqueline Zammit Could the Future teaching and learning of Maltese Language include Virtual Reality?
17:00-17:30	Arnold Cassola L-ikla t-tajba Guten Appetit: 17th century Maltese cuisine through the "Regole per la lingua maltese" - With some linguistic considerations

Tuesday, 19th September
	plenary talk and session 4 (chair Andrei Avram)
9:00-10:00	Dominique Caubet Reconsidering the Arabic of Pantelleria from its traces in modern Pantesco, “with a little help from”… Maltese
10:00-10:30	Evan D. Bradley Acceptability of nonbinary and gender-neutral constructions in Maltese
10:30-11:00	coffee break
	session 5 (chair Chris Lucas)
11:00-11:30	Michael Spagnol, Ray Fabri, Alexandra Vella 10 years of research on the dialects of Malta and Gozo
11:30-12:00	Márton Iványi Cases of “double-fold insularity:” analogies and contrasts in terms of multidimensional experiences of the Gozitan dialects and the Székely-Csángó language island (Sprachinsel) vis-a-vis the Arabic-Maltese and Hungarian-Székely Sprachräume respectively
12:00-12:30	Maike Vorholt Coordinated compound prepositions in Maltese
12:30-14:00	lunch break
	session 6 (chair Michela Vella)
14:00-14:30	Slavomír Čéplö, Erika Just A corpus-driven account of indirect object indexing in Maltese
14:30-15:00	David Wilmsen Object reduplication in Maltese, Arabic, and Romance: Two contacts, one, or none?
15:00-15:30	Ray Fabri Secondary predication in Maltese
15:30-16:00	coffee break
	session 7 (chair Ruben van de Vijver)
16:00-16:30	Kirsty Azzopardi The argument structure of motion verbs in Maltese
16:30-17:00	Maris Camilleri The Imperfective Cycle as manifest in Maltese
19:00	conference dinner

Wednesday, 20th September
	session 8 (chair Dominique Caubet)
09:00-09:30	Leanne Ellul, Clare Azzopardi Heading towards definitions of silence: An analysis of synonymous noun
09:30-10:00	Thomas Stolz But, but, but - On the coexistence of the adversative connectors imma, iżda, and però in contemporary Maltese
10:00-10:30	Michael Spagnol, Chris Lucas Vowel sequences in Maltese verbs
10:30-11:00	coffee break
	session 9 (chair Michael Spagnol)
11:00-11:30	Jessica Nieder, Ruben van de Vijver, Adam Ussishkin Maltese auditory word comprehension explained through discriminative learning
11:30-12:00	Alexandra Vella Maltese (and Maltese English) prosody research: back and forth from the lab (in)to the wild
12:00-12:30	Gilbert Puech Complex vowels in Maltese: length and diphthongization
12:30-14:00	lunch break
	session 10 (chair Raffaello Bezzina)
14:00-14:30	Slavomír Čéplö How to build a cathedral
14:30-15:15	Glossing workshop (Ray Fabri)
15:15-15:45	coffee break
15:45-16:45	GħILM business meeting