Linguistics Circle meeting

The University’s Institute of Linguistics is holding a meeting at Dun Mikiel Xerri Lecture Centre Room 217 on May 18 from 4 p.m. Maria Mifsud will present ‘A Study of Superordinates and Hypo­nyms in Maltese Sign Language’. The aim of this presentation...

The University’s Institute of Linguistics is holding a meeting at Dun Mikiel Xerri Lecture Centre Room 217 on May 18 from 4 p.m.

Maria Mifsud will present ‘A Study of Superordinates and Hypo­nyms in Maltese Sign Language’.

The aim of this presentation is to shed some light on how Maltese sign language (LSM) expresses different levels of abstraction. It will show how signs are used in LSM to express specific meaning and more general and abstract meaning.

The talk will be given in English. No knowledge of Maltese sign language is required.

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