Postgraduate students from the Department of Maltese and the Institute of Linguistics & Language Technology recently read papers on Maltese at a conference on Triangulation - linguistic topics from three different perspectives (Wales, Malta, Northwest Germany) in Delmenhorst, Germany. The conference organised by the University of Bremen was held at the Institute for Advanced Study on 13 and 14 June 2022.
Kirsty Azzopardi, who is a doctoral student in the Department of Maltese, gave a talk about “Verb chains in Maltese”. Raffaello Bezzina, a Masters student of Maltese, spoke about “The constraints which restrict the formation of complex words in Maltese (Morphotactics)”. Michela Vella, a doctoral student in the Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology, gave a talk about “Maltese First Language Acquisition: A Longitudinal Study”.
The participants from the University of Malta would like to thank the conference organiser, Dr Christel Stolz from the University of Bremen, for this important initiative.
They would also like to thank the heads of the delegation from Cardiff University, Dr Iwan Wyn Rees, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Cardiff Centre for Welsh American Studies, School of Welsh, and Ifor ap Glyn, the current national poet of Wales. The head of the Maltese delegation was Dr Michael Spagnol. The three institutions are eager to continue to collaborate in this area in the future.
The conference programme is available .
