[Other] Dr. Colin Layfield and Dr. John Abela are doing research on the VMS

[MichelleL11]

This is very interesting news to me, thanks for sharing bi3mw!
I do wish they had included Maltese in the comparison languages for that May 2020 paper. 
As I understand it though, there are no surviving Maltese texts from before the 1485 Kantilena so perhaps they were only going with languages for which they had enough early 15th century material.

Unfortunately that can’t be the reason, as all the languages they used were “contemporary” (see p.77, 2nd col., 2nd para.). And given their location, a corpus of contemporary Maltese would seem as possible as it could be.  But l’m still interested in what they produce, especially if they manage more age appropriate texts.