30.509, Calls: Maltese; Semitic; Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Semantics, Translation/Poland

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Subject: 30.509, Calls: Maltese; Semitic; Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Semantics, Translation/Poland

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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 23:07:57
From: Benjamin Saade [bsaade at uni-bremen.de]
Subject: 7th International Conference on Maltese Linguistics

 
Full Title: 7th International Conference on Maltese Linguistics 
Short Title: GĦILM7 

Date: 10-Jul-2019 - 12-Jul-2019
Location: Kraków, Poland 
Contact Person: Benjamin Saade
Meeting Email: bsaade at uni-bremen.de
Web Site: http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/lingwistika2019/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Semantics; Translation 

Subject Language(s): Maltese (mlt)
                     Maltese Sign Language (mdl)

Language Family(ies): Semitic 

Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2019 

Meeting Description:

After 6 successful conferences in Bremen (twice), Malta, Lyon, Torino and
Bratislava we are happy to hold the 7th International Conference on Maltese
Linguistics in Kraków on July 10-12, 2019 with the main topic Contemporary
Maltese: Linguistic Challenges in Communication and Translation. The
conference will be jointly organized by Għaqda Internazzjonali tal-Lingwistika
Maltija and by the Jagiellonian University Kraków (Przemysław Turek).


Call for Papers:

After our conferences in Germany, Malta, France, Italy and Slovakia we are
excited to add Poland to the list of countries in which Maltese linguistics
will be debated academically. The conference will take place in the historic
Collegium Maius of Jagiellonian University in the heart of Kraków.

We invite abstracts for oral presentations on all topics related to Maltese
linguistics, as well as papers focusing on Maltese in relation to other
languages. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Psycholinguistics
- Historical approaches to Maltese and related languages
- Language contact
- Computational approaches to Maltese and Semitic languages
- Typological perspectives on Maltese and related languages
- Language acquisition in the Maltese context
- Variation and dialectology in the Maltese context
- Lexicography
- Semantics
- Pragmatics
- Morphology
- Syntax
- Phonetics and Phonology
- Maltese in the European context

Abstracts for oral presentations should not exceed 300 words. Each
presentation should be no longer than 20 minutes; 10 minutes are given for
questions and/or discussion. The conference language is English.

We also invite abstracts for poster presentations.

Abstracts will be reviewed by the programme committee:

- Thomas Stolz (Bremen)
- Ray Fabri (Malta)
- Adam Ussishkin (University of Arizona)
- Martine Vanhove (Villejuif)
- Albert Borg (Malta)

Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 15, 2019
Notification of abstract acceptance: April 15, 2019

Please send your abstracts to Benjamin Saade: bsaade at uni-bremen.de

The conference website is http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/lingwistika2019/




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