The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

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