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