Proceedings

Čéplö, Slavomír and Jaroslav Drobný (eds.). 2020. Maltese Linguistics on the Danube (STTYP 24). Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

PART I: HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS

Maltese and North African linguistics: Common roots and areal divergence

Lameen Souag

The diachrony of word-final obstruent devoicing in Maltese

Andrei A. Avram

The history of the Maltese short vowels

Marijn van Putten

An observation on the ḥāl construction in Maltese

Sumikazu Yoda

Minsel. An etymological database for lexemes of Arabic origin in Maltese

Kurstin Gatt

PART II: SYNTAX

Will it agree or not? Syntactic overgeneralization leading to agreement mismatches in Maltese

Mark Amaira und Albert Borg

Argument extension in Maltese

Ray Fabri

Lanqas, negative concord and predicate negation in Maltese

Slavomír Čéplö und Christopher Lucas

From variation towards the grammar of Maltese prepositions – first steps

Thomas Stolz und Nataliya Levkovych

Form and behavior of Maltese prepositions – A usage-based approach

Emeli Schmidt, Maike Vorholt und Nele Witt

PART III: PHONOLOGY

To be or not to be an affricate – affricated stops in Maltese

Marie Azzopardi-Alexander

Revisiting the definite article in Maltese

Luke Galea und Leanne Ellul

5th Lingwistika Maltija

Saade, Benjamin & Mauro Tosco (eds.). 2017. Advances in Maltese Linguistics. (Studia Typologica 21). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

Benjamin Saade and Mauro Tosco
Maltese linguistics: What is new?

Part 1: New looks into the past
Andrei A. Avram
On the phonology of Sicilian Arabic and early Maltese 

Carles Biosca and Carles Castellanos
Aspects of the comparison between Maltese, Mediterranean Lingua Franca and the Occitan-Catalan linguistic group

Part 2: Maltese, and just Maltese

Ray Fabri and Albert Borg
Modifiers and complements within the Maltese verb sequence

Slavomír “bulbul” Čéplö
Focus particles in Maltese: A corpus survey 

Thomas Stolz and Carolin Ahrens
On prepositional ellipsis and the factors which block its application in Maltese

Part 3: Beyond Maltese, now and then

Amany Al-Sayyed and David Wilmsen
Verbal negation with muš in Maltese and Eastern Mediterranean Arabics

Gilbert Puech
Maltese kiteb vs. Tunisian (Sūsa) ktib 

Marie Azzopardi-Alexander
The phonetic study of speakers along the Maltese-English continuum 

Lydia Sciriha
The visibility and salience of Maltese in bilingual Malta’s linguistic landscape 

Kees Versteegh
The myth of the mixed languages

Puech, Gilbert and Benjamin Saade (eds.). 2016. Shifts and Patterns in Maltese (STTYP 19). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

Martine Vanhove: From Maltese phonology to morphogenesis: A tribute to David Cohen

Part I: Phonology

Gilbert Puech: Minimalist representation of Maltese sounds

Andrei A. Avram: Phonological changes in Maltese: Evidence from onomastics

Alexandra Vella, Flavia Chetcuti and Sarah Agius: Lengthening as a discourse strategy in Maltese: Phonetic and phonological characteristics

Part II: Morphology & Syntax

Maris Camilleri: How inflectional morphology meets subcategorization frame distinctions in Maltese 

Hans-Jörg Döhla: The origin of differential object marking in Maltese 

David Wilmsen: Polar interrogative -š in Maltese: Developments and antecedents 

Thomas Stolz and Benjamin Saade: On short and long forms of personal pronouns in Maltese 

Christopher Lucas and Michael Spagnol: Connecting /t/ in Maltese numerals 

Part III: Contact, Bilingualism & Technology

George Farrugia: Languages in contact. Is the gender assignment system in Maltese undergoing change? 

Bernard Comrie and Michael Spagnol: Maltese loanword typology 

Marie Azzopardi-Alexander: Language profiling: The weaving of Maltese and English in Maltese children’s conversations 

John J. Camilleri: Digitizing the grammar and vocabulary of Maltese 

Borg, Albert; Caruana, Sandro & Alexandra Vella (eds.). 2014. Perspectives on Maltese Linguistics (STTYP 14). München: Akademie Verlag.

Historical Studies

Arnold Cassola - A note on the dating of ħ, għ and x in Maltese

Martin R. Zammit - The Sfaxi (Tunisian) element in Maltese

Daniele Baglioni-  Italian loanwords in Maltese and the vocabulary od "Levant Italian"

Phonological Studies

Gilbert Puech - Prime constituents od Maltese sounds

Alexandra Vella, Michael Spagnol, Sarah Grech & Flavia Chetcuti - The role of silence in spoken Maltese: durational and distributional characteristics of breaks and pauses

Morphological Studies

Phyllisienne Gauci & Maris Camilleri - Syncretism in Maltese: the case of the dual

Thomas Mayer, MIchael Spagnol & Florian Schönberger - Fixing the broken plural in Maltese

Syntactic Studies

Maris Camilleri - The Maltese restrictive relative clause

Slavomír "Bulbul" Čéplö - An overview of object reduplication in Maltese

Christopher Lucas - Indefinites and negative concord in Maltese: towards a dynamic account

Thomas Stolz - It-tlieta li aħna = the three of us. Numerically quantified person reference

Maltese in the digital age

Mark Borg, Keith Bugeja, Colin Vella, Gordon Mangion & Carmel Gafà - Preparation of a free-runing text corpus for Maltese concatenative speech synthesis

Lara Vella - Language used in Internet chatting and its effect on spelling

Caruana, Sandro, Fabri, Ray and Tomas Stolz (eds.). 2012. Variation and Change: The Dynamics of Maltese in Space, Time and Society (STTYP 9). Berlin: Akademie Verlag.

Part I: The Lexicon and Variation

Albert Borg: Lectal variation in Maltese

Joseph M. Brincat: Describing literary Maltese: concordances to Dun Karm and Rużar Briffa

Antoinette Camilleri Grima: Giving compliments in Maltese

Lara Brincat & Sandro Caruana: il-Malti Mgħaġġel - Maltese in computer-mediated chat conversations

Ray Fabri: The language of young people and language change in Malta

Laura Mori: Linguistic variation in legal Maltese - EU directives compared to national implementation laws

Part II: Morphology and Syntax

Maris Camilleri: On pronominal verbal enclitics in Maltese

Michael Spagnol: The causative-inchoative alternation in Maltese

Thomas Stolz: The possessive relative clause in Maltese

Part III: Phonology

Marie Azzopardi-Alexander: The vowel system of Xlukkajr and Naduri

Alexandra Vella, Michael Spagnol, Sarah Grech & Flavia Chetcuti: A preliminary investigation of filled pauses in Maltese

Gilbert Puech: Syllabic structure and stress in Maltese

Comrie, B., Fabri, R., Mifsud, M., Stolz, T., & Vanhove, M. (eds.). 2009. Introducing Maltese Linguistics. Selected papers from the 1st International Conference on Maltese Linguistics, Bremen, 18–20 October, 2007. Studies in Language Companion Series, 113. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

PART I. TYPOLOGY

Maltese and the World Atlas of Language Structures

Bernard Comrie

PART II. PHONOLOGY

Vowel duration and Maltese 'għ'

Elizabeth Hume, Jennifer Venditti, Alexandra Vella and Samantha Gett

On Maltese prosody

Alexandra Vella

PART III. SYNTAX

Topicalisation in Maltese

Albert Borg and Marie Azzopardi-Alexander

A head-driven phrase structure grammar for Maltese

Stefan Müller 

Complex predicates in Maltese: From a neo-Arabic perspective

Utz Maas 

Splitting the verb chain in modern literary Maltese

Thomas Stolz

"Pseudo-verbs": An analysis of non-verbal (co-)predication in Maltese

John Peterson

PART IV. LEXICON AND ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

Compounding and adjective-noun compounds in Maltese

Ray Fabri 

Auditory and visual lexical decision in Maltese

Adam Ussishkin and Alina Twist

Electronic language resources for Maltese

Michael Rosner

PART V. LANGUAGE CHANGE AND CONTACT

The Vowel system of Cantilena: Its historical development

Sumikazu Yoda

The shaping of Maltese throughout the centuries: Linguistic evidences from a diachronic-typological analysis

Laura Mori

"Imma l'oriġinal oriġinali?": A noun-adjective opposition in some Maltese word-classes of Romance origin

Manwel Mifsud 

A different kind of gender problem: Maltese loan-word gender from a typological perspective

Christel Stolz

Terminology of Italian origin used in EU Maltese: A case of linguistic "Europeanisation"?

Sandro Caruana 

PART VI. SOCIOLINGUISTICS

Diglossia: Variation on a theme

Antoinette Camilleri Grima

Maltese English: History of use, structural variation and sociolinguistic status

Lisa M. Bonnici