Thursday, October 18 |
Session A: Maltese and beyond
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8:30–9.30 |
Registration (SFG 2020)
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9:30–9:45 |
Official opening ceremony
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9:45–10:30 |
Dónall Ó Riágain (Dublin)
Into the Big League: the challenges facing Maltese and Irish as official working languages
of the European Union
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10:30–11:15 |
Sandro Caruana (Malta)
Maltese in the EU: a case of linguistic "Europeanisation"?
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11:15 |
Coffee break
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11:30–12:15 |
Bernard Comrie (Leipzig)
Maltese and the World Atlas of Language Structures
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12:15–13:00 |
Utz Maas (Osnabrück)
Complex predicates in Maltese - in the perspective of Neo-Arabic
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13:00 |
Lunch break (Café Unique)
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14:00–14:45 |
Alexander Borg (Beer Sheeva)
The Arabic lexicon at the periphery: lexical stratification in Maltese
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Session B: Phonology
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14:45–15:30 |
Alexandra Vella (Malta)
On Maltese Prosody or The Intonational Phonology of Maltese
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15:30 |
Coffee break
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15:45–16:30 |
Ray Fabri (Malta)
Samantha Gett (Ohio State)
Elizabeth Hume (Ohio State)
Alexandra Vella (Malta)
Vowel length and <gh> in Maltese
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16:30–17:15 |
Sumikazu Yoda (Osaka)
The Vowel System of Cantilena
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Session C: Variation, Lexicon and Text
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17:15–18:00 |
Dominique Caubet (Paris)
Towards a dialectological atlas of Maltese: questions to be raised
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18:00 |
Coffee break
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18:15–19:00 |
Lisa Bonnici (Davis)
Language Variation in Bilingual Malta: A model for the study of English in Europe
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19:00–19:45 |
Laura Mori (Viterbo)
The shaping of Maltese along the centuries: linguistic evidence through a diachronic-typological analysis
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20:15 |
Dinner in the Haus am Walde
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Friday, October 19 |
Session D: Morphology
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9:45–10:30 |
Abdou Elimam (Oran)
Preverbs in Maltese and Maghrebi
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10:30–11:15 |
Alina Twist (Tucson)
On the structure of Maltese loan verbs
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11:15 |
Coffee break
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11:30–12:15 |
Christel Stolz (Bremen)
Loan-word gender in Maltese
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12:15–13:00 |
Ray Fabri (Malta)
Compounding in Maltese
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13:00 |
Lunch break (Café Unique)
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14:00–14:45 |
Manwel Mifsud (Malta)
'Imma l-oriġinal oriġinali?': a noun-adjective opposition in some Maltese word classes of Romance origin
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Session E: Psycholinguistics
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14:45–15:30 |
Helen Grech (Malta)
Barbara Dodd (Queensland)
Effects of Language Learning Context on Phonological Acquisition: data from Maltese children
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15:30–16:15 |
Adam Ussishkin (Tucson)
Alina Twist (Tucson)
Lexical access in Maltese using visual and auditory lexical decision
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Business Meeting
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17:30 |
Foundation of L-Għaqda Internazzjonali tal-Lingwistika Maltija
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Cultural Programme
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19:00–20:00 |
Clare Azzopardi (Malta)
Reads from her translation of Harry Potter vol. 1
into Maltese
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20:00–22:00 |
Banquet: Maltese Fenkata
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22:30 |
Walter Micallef
Pop Malti
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Saturday, October 20 |
Session F: Syntax
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9:45–10:30 |
Martine Vanhove (Villejuif)
The nominal quantifier <xi> in Maltese: polysemy and semantic invariant
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10:30–11:15 |
Thomas Stolz (Bremen)
Splitting the VP in literary Maltese
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11:15 |
Coffee break
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11:30–12:15 |
Albert Borg (Malta)
Marie Azzopardi-Alexander (Malta)
Topicalisation in Maltese
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Session G: A plethora of topics
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12:15–13:00 |
Elgar-Paul Magro (Paris)
On some aspects of spontaneous speech in Maltese
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13:00 |
Lunch break (Catering Service)
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14:00–14:45 |
Joseph Brincat (Malta)
Reflections on the developments of o > u and uCC > oCC in Maltese
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14:45–15:30 |
Antoinette Camilleri-Grima (Malta)
Diglossia: Variation on a theme
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15:30 |
Coffee break
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15:45–16:30 |
Fernande Krier (Paris)
The sentence without verb in Maltese
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16:30–17:15 |
Albert Gatt (Aberdeen)
The semantics of possession
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17:30–18:00 |
Final general discussion
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19:30 |
Dinner in the Restaurant Hermann Post
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Poster Session |
Throughout the conference, there will be a poster session in room SFG 2010.
Authors of posters are kindly asked to answer questions during the coffee breaks. |
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Vincent Taohsun Chang (Taipei)
A cognitive-pragmatic approach to contemporary Maltese discourse topic
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Stefan Müller (FU Berlin)
Towards a HPSG-based description of modern Maltese
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John Peterson (Osnabrück)
On pseudo-verbs in Maltese
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Mike Rosner (Malta)
Ray Fabri (Malta)
Duncan Attard (Malta)
Albert Gatt (Malta)
Michael Spagnol (Malta)
The Maltese Language Resource Server: building an electronic lexicon and corpus for
Maltese
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Thomas Stolz (Bremen)
Andreas Ammann (Bremen)
News on the Maltese inchoative
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Flavia Chetcuti (Malta)
Sarah Grech (Malta)
Michael Spagnol (Malta)
Alexandra Vella (Malta)
SPeech ANnotation: Developing Guidelines for Maltese Corpora
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