/library/oar/handle/123456789/27645 2026-05-24T13:52:13Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/21051 Title: On the need for a lectureship in Arabic in our University Editors: Aquilina, J. Abstract: The Editor of the Journal of Maltese studies, states in this article the need for a lectureship in Arabic at the University of Malta. 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/20926 Title: Linguistic analysis of Fr. Magri's folk-tales Abstract: This is a complete list of Manwel Magri's folk-tales, with English translations in brackets. One will also find a general introduction to the tales contained in Hrejjef Missirijietna, then continuing on to Magri's own enumeration, and some of his other tales published in his other publications. 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/20924 Title: The classification of the Maltese verb Abstract: In the Arabic morphology the classification of the verb has been one of the topics which, owing to different linguistic shades and peculiarities in the various dialects, has given to grammarians the opportunity to express a variety of views which differ in some particular details from the classical standard system of the classification of the verb. Such a variety in the methods of classification is also noticed in some grammars and treatises on the Maltese Language of which the morphological verbal forms are, in a general sense, identical to the Arabic, and in some peculiarities widely differing from the classical Arabic, in the same way as the dialects of the latter, from the Syrian territories along the coast-land of North Africa as far as Morocco, seem also to differ a good deal. In order to appreciate these discrepancies it would be necessary to make a comparative analysis of the various methods of the classification of the verb of Arabic dialects which are akin to the Maltese Language in their morphological aspects as the offshoots of the standard classification of the verb in classical Arabic. 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/20923 Title: Maltese meteorological and agricultural proverbs Abstract: The Maltese bidwi (peasant, farmer) in the course of centuries recorded his experiences in pithy proverbial sayings whereby he transmitted to his children his practical knowledge of weather-lore and landcraft collected from personal observation, by no means infallible though stiIl a good guidance especially to the tillers of the land. The list of such proverbial sayings which J. Aquilina has grouped under various headings is the first of the kind collected from various authentic sources and from the living language - direct from the bdiewa. Classified under various headings they form the corpus of Maltese and Gozitan husbandry and weather-lore. Some of them, perhaps the larger portion, stand the test of scientific proof, while others are only approximate prognostications subject to the unpredictable variations of weather changes from one year to another. 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z