Joseph Aquilina

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Joseph Aquilina, LL.D., Ph.D. (1911-1997) was a Maltese author and linguist born in Munxar on April 7, 1911.

Professor Aquilina graduated first as Bachelor of Arts and later as a lawyer from the University of Malta. Between 1937 and 1940 he read Comparative Semitic Philology at the University of London where he obtained a doctorate. Among the prominent posts which Aquilina held as a full time professor at the University of Malta, was that as Dean of the Faculty of Arts. Author of numerous works, including novels, critical studies, drama, linguistic papers and religious books, Professor Aquilina has also published his impressive 'Maltese-English Dictionary'. He is also the author of Teach Yourself Maltese, which is a grammar of the Maltese language with exercises.

[edit] Partial Bibliography

  • Teach Yourself Maltese. Teach Yourself Books, Hodder & Stoughton, London 1965
  • Papers in Maltese Linguistics. University of Malta.
  • Maltese-English Dictionary.
  • English-Maltese Dictionary.
  • Maltese Linguistics Surveys.

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