The series provides a platform for Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics. This new sub-discipline of linguistics is inspired by work carried out within the framework of Missionary Linguistics and by recent discussion about language, linguistics and colonialism. KPL/CPL intends to make accessible and comment on texts which are concerned with languages of the former European possessions in overseas and were written during the European colonial era.

The series provides a platform for Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics. This new sub-discipline of linguistics is inspired by work carried out within the framework of Missionary Linguistics and by recent discussion about language, linguistics and colonialism. KPL/CPL intends to make accessible and comment on texts which are concerned with languages of the former European possessions in overseas and were written during the European colonial era.

The series provides a platform for Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics. This new sub-discipline of linguistics is inspired by work carried out within the framework of Missionary Linguistics and by recent discussion about language, linguistics and colonialism. KPL/CPL intends to make accessible and comment on texts which are concerned with languages of the former European possessions in overseas and were written during the European colonial era.

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