Ilsienna and companion series

ILSIENNA - Our Language- Vol. 1, 2009.
Working Papers of the International Association of Maltese Linguistics (GHILM) Vol 1
(2009) ISBN 978-3-8196-0733-2, Pb. 152 pp. 15,5 x 22,5 cm EINZELPREIS/UNIT PRICE
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In this issue, RAY FABRI provides the opener with his treatment of stem allomorphy in the
Maltese verb. This morphological study is followed by JOE FELICE PACE’s study of the
history of the Maltese digraph and its phonological correlate, i.e. the author looks at the
phenomenon from two perspectives, orthographical and phonological. MICHAEL SPAGNOL
gives an account of the two types of aspectual distinctions in the verbal system of Maltese as
he distinguishes lexical aspect from grammatical aspect. In this study which has grown out of
the author’s outstanding M.A. thesis, issues of semantics and grammatical categories are
addressed. The final paper is a joint study by THOMAS STOLZ, NATALIYA
LEVKOVYCH and BARBARA DEWEIN comparing reduplicative stemformations like
paqpaq ‘to hoot’ with similar patterns found in a genetically, typologically and geographically
unrelated language, Chamorro (an Austronesian language), in order to draw general (and
tentatively crosslinguistic) conclusions as to the phonological and semantic regularities of this
kind of stem-formation. It is planned that the articles section will be regularly followed by
Kelmtejn bil-Malti, a column of variable size, dedicated to current and hotly debated issues of
Maltese written in Maltese. Since ILSIENNA aims at reaching as broad an audience as
possible, it was decided that the primary language of publication should be English. However,
as the official journal of GHILM, ILSIENNA must reserve some space for Maltese on a
regular basis. The articles may be accompanied by a short abstract in Maltese (in addition to
the compulsory abstract in English). However, this was felt to be too little prominence for the
language we study and thus Kelmtejn bil-Malti is a far more adequate category for Maltese to
come to the fore. In this issue of ILSIENNA, MANWEL MIFSUD, the president of Il-Kunsill
tal-Ilsian Malti, expresses his opinion on the situation of Maltese in the past and its prospects
in the future. The final section in this issue of ILSIENNA is the reviews section (edited by
JOSEPH H. BRINCAT). There are six reviews – a number which proves that Maltese issues
come up more often than one might expect. articles, Kelmtejn bil-Malti and the reviews
induces many more linguists to contribute to the journal with their own original work or with
reviews of publications with a bearing on Maltese matters.
Here you can find an extract:
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