Friday 8th April: 0830-1830

Aula Magna, Old University Building, St Paul Str., Valletta

• 0830-0900: registration
• 0900-0930: Opening Address
• 0930-1030: Invited speaker 1 – THOMAS STOLZ, It-tlieta li aħna/The three of us: On grammatical and pragmatic aspects of group formation in Maltese [slides]
  
• 1030-1100: speaker 1 – Clitics and non-definite NPs in Maltese (R Fabri) [slides]
  
• 1100-1130: coffee break
• 1130-1200: speaker 2 – Object reduplication in Maltese (S Céplö) [slides]
  
• 1200-1230: speaker 3 – Restrictive relative constructions in Maltese (M Camilleri)
• 1230-1300: speaker 4 – Indefinites and negative concord in Maltese: towards a dynamic account (C Lucas) [handout]
  
• 1300-1430: lunch
• 1430-1530: Invited speaker 2 – FRANS PLANK, The direction of derivation between nouns and adjectives
  
• 1530-1600: speaker 5 – Labile verbs in Maltese (A Gatt, M Spagnol) [slides]
  
• 1600-1630: coffee break 2
• 1630-1700: speaker 6 – Fixing the broken plural in Maltese (T Mayer, M Spagnol, F Schoenhuber) [slides]
  
• 1700-1730: speaker 7 – Syncretism and morphological complexity in Maltese: the case of the dual (P Gauci, M Camilleri)
• 1730-1830: poster session

Poster session (Friday 8th April)

• Poster 1 – A short note on the dating of għ, h and x (A Cassola)
• Poster 2 – Computational morphology for Maltese: from theory to practice (C Borg, R Fabri, A Gatt) [poster]
  
• Poster 3 – Evidences and counter-evidences of Maltese Eurolect (L Mori)
• Poster 4 – From ‘lingwa tal-kċina’ to laboratory for language (M Vella and R Seychell)
• Poster 5 – The matter of the root (M Spagnol, T Mayer) [poster]
  
• Poster 6 – Reflexivity in word formation in European languages: the case of Maltese (M Angster)
• Poster 7 – The “early” peak falling tune in Maltese (A Vella)
• Poster 8 – Influences on the structure of novel Maltese verbs (A Twist)
  

Saturday 9th April: 0830-1230

Dar l-Ewropa (Europe House), St Paul's Str., Valletta

• 0830-0930: Invited speaker 3 – BETH HUME, The production of word-final geminates in Maltese within a communication-based approach.[slides]
  
• 0930-1000: speaker 1 – Language Profiling - the weaving of Maltese and English in Maltese children’s conversations (M Alexander)
• 1000-1030: speaker 2 – The role of silence in spoken Maltese: durational & distributional characteristics of pauses & breaks (A. Vella, M. Spagnol, S. Grech, F. Chetcuti)
• 1030-1100: coffee break
• 1100-1130: speaker 3 – On the proper treatment of (non)-cyclicity in Maltese (M Wolf) [handout]
  
• 1130-1200: speaker 4 – An ‘elementary’ analysis of speech sounds in Maltese (G Puech)
• 1200-1230: speaker 5 – Preparation of a free-running text corpus for Maltese concatenative speech synthesis (M Borg, K Bugeja, C Vella, G Mangion, C Gafa) [slides]
  

Sunday 10th April: 0900-1300

Aula Magna, Old University Building, St Paul Str., Valletta

•  0830-0930: Invited speaker 4 - BERNARD COMRIE, Maltese loanword typology
  
•  0930-1000: speaker1 – Supraliminal and subliminal root and binyan priming in Maltese (A Ussishkin, A Wedel, K Schluter, C Dawson) [slides]
  
•  1000-1030: speaker 2 – How (ir)regular is the binyan system in Maltese? (M Spagnol)
•  1030-1100: speaker 3 – The Sfaxi (Tunisian) lexical element in Maltese (M Zammit) [slides]
  
•  1100-1130: coffee break
•  1130-1200: speaker 4 – Italian loanwords in Maltese and the vocabulary of “Levant Italian” (D Baglioni) 
•  1200-1230: speaker 5 – Writing words: spelling strategies of Maltese pupils during their acquistion of the Maltese orthography (J Joachimsen)
•  1230-1300: speaker 6 – Language used in internet chatting and its effect on spelling (L Brincat)
•  1300-1400: lunch
•  1400: GħILM committee meeting