The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The series considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language.

The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The series considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language.

With this first issue of ILSIENNA – Our Language, Maltese linguistics has acquired a brand-new forum. ILSIENNA, modestly termed Working Papers on the title page, is the official journal of l-GHaqda Internazzjonali tal-Lingwistika Maltija (GHILM) theInternational Association of Maltese Linguistics. CONTENTS: Editorial; ARTICLES: RAY FABRI: Stem allomorphy in the Maltese verb; JOE FELICE PACE: The tortuous itinerary of the Maltese vowel ie; MICHAEL SPAGNOL: Lexical and grammatical aspect in Maltese; THOMAS STOLZ, NATALIYA LEVKOVYCH & BARBARA DEWEIN: Reduplicative stem formation: a comparative look at Maltese and Chamorro; Kelmtejn bil-Malti: MANWEL MIFSUD: Sigra fl-Ewropa; Reviews: VERSTEEGH, KEES (ed.), Encyclopedia of Arabic language and linguistics, volumes I–V, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2006–2009 JOSEPH M. BRINCAT; ALEXANDER BORG, Between typology and diachrony: some formal parallels in Hebrew and Maltese, in: Symposia Melitensia 4, Malta, 2007, 1–50 JOSEPH M. BRINCAT; Symposia Melitensia 4, 2007, 150 pp. JOSEPH M. BRINCAT; AGIUS, DIONISIUS A., Who spoke Siculo-Arabic?, in: MORIGGI, MARCO (ed.), XII Incontro Italiano di Linguistica Camito-semitica (Afroasiatica). Atti, Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2007, 25–33 JOSEPH M. BRINCAT; MOSER, MANFRED in collaboration with SHARON MEYER and JOE FELICE PACE, Malti – Germaniz, Dizzjunarju kbir. Deutsch – Maltesisch, Großes Wörterbuch, Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2005 RAY FABRI; JOE ZAMMIT CIANTAR, Il-Priedki bil-Malti ta’ Ignazio Saverio Mifsud. Edizzjoni kkummentata bi Studju Kritiku, Santa Lucija (Malta): L-Awtur, 2008 THOMAS STOlZ