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Date: 06-Dec-2006
From: Thomas Stolz < stolz at uni-bremen.de >
Subject: Maltese Linguistics / Lingwistika Maltija
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Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:59:19
From: Thomas Stolz < stolz at uni-bremen.de >
Subject: Maltese Linguistics / Lingwistika Maltija
Maltese Linguistics / Lingwistika Maltija
Date: 18-Oct-2007 - 20-Oct-2007
Location: Bremen, Germany
Contact: Thomas Stolz
Contact Email: stolz at uni-bremen.de, ghaqda at uni-bremen.de
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Subject Language(s): Maltese (mlt)
Meeting Description:
The conference is meant to document the state-of-the-art in Maltese Linguistics. Current research projects from all kinds of areas within linguistics are presented and discussed by international experts from ten different countries world-wide.
The wide range of topics covered by the talks of our invited speakers demonstrates that Maltese Linguistics fulfills the requirements of becoming a full-blown sub-discipline of linguistics.
With a view to supporting Maltese Linguistics on a global scale, the International Society of Maltese Linguistics (L-Ghaqda Internazzjonali tal-Lingwistika Maltija) will be founded on occasion of the conference. Both the conference and the Society will be hosted by the University of Bremen/Germany, where linguistic research on Maltese and languages of the Mediterranean has a long tradition already. The conference is organised by the Institute of Linguistics of the University of Bremen. The conference is scheduled for October 18-20, 2007. The foundation of the Society will take place on October 19, 2007 under the auspices of his excellency, the Ambassador of Malta in Germany.
As to the programme, there are still free slots on the reserve list and in the poster session. The conference language is English. Fees are 30 Euros (''early booking'' until September 30, 2007) and 50 Euros on campus.
Programme:
Arrival Wednesday 17 October 2007
Departure Sunday 21 October 2007
Wednesday from 19:00 warming up [location t.b.a.]
All talks are given on campus
University of Bremen
Building SFG, Rooms 2010 and 2020
[Lunch on 1st and 2nd day in the Cafeteria Café Unique in the same building; on 3rd day, there will be a catering service for us]
1st day Thursday 18 October 2007
9:30 Official opening ceremony
Section A: Maltese in the EU
9:45 Talk I Dónall Ó Riágain (Dublin)
Into the Big League: the challenges facing Maltese and Irish as official working languages of the European Union
10:30 Talk II Sandro Caruana (Malta)
Maltese in the EU: a case of linguistic ''Europeanisation''?
11:15 Coffee break
Section B Maltese - geolinguistically
11:30 Talk III Bernard Comrie (Leipzig)
Maltese and the World Atlas of Language Structures
12:15 Talk IV Andreas Ammann (Bremen)
Maltese structures from a Mediterranean perspective
13:00 Lunch break
14:00 Talk V Dominique Caubet (Paris)
Towards a dialectological atlas of Maltese: questions to be raised
Section C Phonology
14:45 Talk VI Alexandra Vella (Malta)
On Maltese prosody
15:30 Coffee break
15:45 Talk VII Ray Fabri (Malta), Elizabeth Hume (Ohio State) & Alexandra Vella (Malta)
Vowel length and <gh> in Maltese
Section D Lexicon and text
16:30 Talk VIII Alexander Borg (Ber Sheeva)
The Arabic lexicon at the periphery: lexical stratification in Maltese
17:15 Coffee break
17:30 Talk IX Martin R. Zammit (Malta)
Maltese and Andalusi Arabic: some lexical notes
18:15 Talk X Sumikazu Yoda (Osaka)
Cantilena and al-Jumanah: two Eastern Maghribi dialects of the
Medieval ages
19:00 Reading Clare Azzopardi (Malta)
Reads from her translation of Harry Potter vol. 1 into Maltese
19:00 Closure 1st day
20:00 Dinner in the Haus am Walde
2nd day Friday 19 October 2007
Section E Morphology
9:45 Talk XI Abdou Elimam (Oran)
Preverbs in Maltese and Maghrebi
10:30 Talk XII Alina Twist (Tucson)
On the structure of Maltese loan verbs
11:15 Coffee break
11:30 Talk XIII Christel Stolz (Bremen)
Loan-word gender in Maltese
12:15 Talk XIV Ray Fabri (Malta)
Compounding in Maltese
13:00 Lunch break
14:00 Talk XV Mauro Tosco (Neapel)
When a zero is born: on the rise of concatenative morphology in Maltese
14:45 Talk XVI Pierluigi Cuzzolin (Bergamo)
Remarks on the formation of the so-called ''broken plurals'' in
Maltese
15:30 Coffee break
Section F Psycholinguistics
15:45 Talk XVII Helen Grech (Malta)
Communication disorders in Maltese children: data from bilingual
speech and language assessments (Maltese/English)
16:30 Talk XVIII Adam Ussishkin & Alina Twist (Tucson)
Lexical access in Maltese using visual and auditory lexical
decision
17:15 Closure 2nd day
17:30 Foundation of L-Ghaqda Internazzjonali tal-Lingwistika Maltija
20:00 Dinner in the Haus am Walde
3rd day Saturday 20 October 2007
Section G Syntax
9:45 Talk XIX Martine Vanhove (Villejuif)
The nominal quantifier <xi> in Maltese: polysemy and semantic
invariant
10:30 Talk XX Thomas Stolz (Bremen)
Splitting the VP in literary Maltese
11:15 Coffee break
11:30 Talk XXI Albert Borg (Malta)
Topicalisation in Maltese
Section H A plethora of topics
12:15 Talk XXII Elgar-Paul Magro (Paris)
What we can learn from spoken Maltese
13:00 Lunch break
14:00 Talk XXIII Joseph Brincat (Malta)
t.b.a.
14:45 Talk XXIV Antoinette Camilleri-Grima (Malta)
t.b.a.
15:30 Coffee break
15:45 Talk XXV Utz Maas (Osnabrück)
Complex predicates in Maltese - in the perspective of Neo-
Arabic
16:30 Talk XXVI Albert Gatt (Aberdeen)
The semantics of possession
17:15 Poster session
18:15 Final general discussion
19:00 Closure of 3rd day and conference
20:00 Dinner in the Haus am Walde
A conference website is under construction and will be made available under the domain uni-bremen.de
For further details please contact
ghaqda @ uni-bremen.de
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