Roderick (Rigu) Bovingdon next month will be presenting a monograph to the second Asia International Lexicography Conference in Thailand.

The title of his study is From Language to Ethnolect: Maltese to Maltraljan - A case study in cross-continental lexicography.

Other academic monographs so far presented at international conferences by Mr Bovingdon, a scholar of Maltese who lives in Australia, this time co-authored with his colleague Angel Dalli, include A statistical analysis of the source origin of Maltese. This took place at the University of Lancaster, UK, in March 2003 and is to be published by Corpus Linguistics.

Yet another monograph presented to the ninth International Conference on Minority Languages held at the University of Stockholm last year, by the same author, was entitled Maltese dialectology in Australia.

Mr Bovingdon is the author of The Maltese Language of Australia: Maltraljan - A lexical compilation with linguistic notations and a social, political and historical background, published internationally by Lincom Europa of Germany. This particular work has not only reached into the world's leading libraries, archives and research quarters, it was also prominently reviewed in the world's leading linguistics journal at the Sorbonne, in the Bullettin de la Société Linguistique de Paris.

Mr Bovingdon has at least three other academic studies in the pipeline, two of which are due for public presentation later this year.