Research at the Malta Centre | Ri?erka fi?-?entru tal-Ilsien Malti
Those directly associated with the Malta Centre in Bremen contribute to research into Maltese. Only two recent projects should be outlined in terms of content.
In spring 2020, Benjamin Saade, who has served as a research associate at the Malta Centre since 2012, successfully completed his doctorate with a cumulative dissertation on borrowed Italian derivational morphology and its productivity in Maltese. The dissertation, entitled Productivity of Italian derivation in Maltese and its implications for language contact studies (Bremen 2020), comprises three articles written at the Malta Centre and previously published in the A-Rate journals Language Typology and Universals, Linguistics and Morphology, thus bringing Maltese to the attention of a wider linguistic audience.
The aim of the DFG project Prepositions and their Grammar in Maltese is to determine the total stock of Maltese prepositions, which has never been precisely determined, and to describe them comprehensively in terms of their phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic properties, both qualitatively and quantitatively, as well as to systematically examine them typologically, contact linguistically and diachronically. Within the framework of this project, Maike Vorholt is working on her dissertation on quantitative aspects of Maltese prepositions. In connection with this project, the following publications have already appeared in print:
Il-persuni asso?jati direttament ma?-?entru tal-Ilsien Malti fi Bremen jikkontribwixxu g?ar-ri?erka fil-Malti. Niddeskrivu ?ew? pro?etti ri?enti f'termini ta' kontenut.
Fir-rebbieg?a tal-2020, Benjamin Saade, li serva b?ala ri?erkatur associate fi?-?entru tal-Ilsien Malti mill-2012, temm b’su??ess id-dottorat tieg?u b’dissertazzjoni kumulattiva dwar il-morfolo?ija derivattiva mislufa mit-Taljana u l-produttività tag?ha fil-Malti. Id-dissertazzjoni, bl-isem Productivity of Italian derivation in Maltese and its implications for language contact studies (Bremen 2020), tinkludi tliet artikli miktubin fi?-?entru tal-Ilsien Malti u ppubblikati fil-?urnali mag?rufin Language Typology and Universals, Linguistics and Morphology. Dan jg?in biex il-Malti jil?aq udjenza lingwistika usa’.
L-g?an tal-pro?ett DFG Prepositions and their Grammar in Maltese huwa li jiddetermina l-lista kompluta ta’ prepo?izzjonijiet Maltin, li s’issa qatt ma ?ie determinata b’mod pre?i?, u li jiddeskrivihom b’mod komprensiv f’termini tal-proprjetajiet fonolo?i?i, morfolo?i?i, sintatti?i u semanti?i tag?hom, kemm b’mod kwalitattiv kif ukoll b’mod kwantitattiv, u biex, sistematikament, je?aminahom tipolo?ikament, dijakronikament u b’referenza g?all-kuntatt lingwistiku. Fil-qafas ta’ dan il-pro?ett, Maike Vorholt qed ta?dem fuq id-dissertazzjoni tag?ha dwar aspetti kwantitattivi tal-prepo?izzjonijiet Maltin. B'rabta ma' dan il-pro?ett, di?à ?ew stampati dawn il-pubblikazzjonijiet:
