10 July 2019
Phonology and Morphology |
| 9:30–10:00 |
Registration |
| 10:00–10:30 |
Introduction |
| 10:30–11:00 |
Alexandra Vella (Malta)
The intonation of imperatives and vocatives in Maltese, and a first glance at exclamatives
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| 11:00–11:30 |
Coffee break |
| 11:30–12:00 |
Alexandra Vella (Malta)
Ruben Farrugia (Malta)
Michael Spagnol (Malta)
Combinatorial restrictions on vowel sequences in CVCVC words in Maltese
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| 12:00–12:30 |
Benjamin Saade (Bremen)
From Maltese pronouns towards a typology of pronominal cellmates
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| 12:30–14:00 |
Lunch break |
| 14:00–14:30 |
Kirsty Azzopardi (Malta)
The verb sequence ‘V1+V2’ in Maltese
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| 15:00–15:30 |
Ray Fabri (Malta)
The lexical ta’ construction
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| 15:30–16:00 |
Coffee break |
| 16:00–16:30 |
Jessica Nieder (Düsseldorf)
Ruben van de Vijver (Düsseldorf)
Holger Mitterer (Malta)
Don't go breaking my sound (plural)
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| 16:30–17:00 |
Christopher Lucas (SOAS, London)
Michael Spagnol (Malta)
Word-final /n/ in Maltese
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| 20:00 |
Conference dinner at restaurant Trzy Rybki in the Stary Hotel (Szczepańska 5) |
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11 July 2019
Variation in time and space + Corpora and computation |
| 9:30–10:00 |
Przemysław Turek (Kraków)
Semitic, Sicilian-Italian and English Elements in Literary Maltese in the 2nd decade of the 3rd Millennium - preliminary observations
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| 10:00–10:30 |
Sebastian Bednarowicz (Bydgoszcz)
The semantic structure of adjectives referring to the holiness in Maltese and Arabic languages
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| 10:30–11:00 |
Coffee break |
| 11:00–11:30 |
Thomas Stolz (Bremen)
Nataliya Levkovych (Bremen)
Different Maltese ways of being in Sydney (and elsewhere). On the formal variation of expressing Place with toponyms
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| 11:30–12:00 |
Michael Spagnol (Malta)
Ruben Farrugia (Malta)
Lexical Variation in the Dialects of Malta and Gozo
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| 12:00–13:30 |
Lunch break |
| 13:30–14:00 |
Erika Just (Kiel)
Slavomír Čéplö (Slovak Academy of Sciences)
A corpus based analysis of differential object indexing in Maltese
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| 14:00–14:30 |
Sandro Caruana (Malta)
Sergio Portelli (Malta)
Laura Mori (Rome)
Maltese seen through the eyes of the Eurolect Observatory Multilingual Corpus
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| 14:30–15:00 |
Coffee break |
| 15:00–15:30 |
Andrei Zammit (Malta)
Slavomír Čéplö (Slovak Academy of Sciences)
Lonneke van der Plas (Malta)
Claudia Borg (Malta)
A Dependency Parser for Maltese - Comparing the impact of transfer learning from Romance and Semitic Languages
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| 15:30–16:00 |
Maike Vorholt (Bremen)
Can frequency predict length?
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| 16:00–17:30 |
GĦILM business meeting |
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