08:00-09:30

REGISTRATION

09:30-11:00

INAUGURAL SESSION

HIGH TEA

11:15-12:15

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: MBM Hall

AYESHA KIDWAI “Grierson and The Linguistic Survey of India: Pre-Life and After-Life”

CHAIR: Yogendra P. Yadava

12:15-01:05

SESSION I

Syntax

Room:101 

Chair: K. Srikumar

Typology

Room:102

Chair: Alexander Coupe

Phonology

Room:103

Chair: Krishna Prasad Chalise

Sociolinguistics

Room:104

Chair: Prem Paudel

Applied Linguistics

Room:109

Chair: Binay Pattnayak

12:15-12:40

On the lexicon-information structure interface

Tova Rapoport;

Nomi Erteschik-Shir

Notes on place names in the state of Jharkhand in India

Toshiki Osada

Systematizing Nepali Sign Language (NSL) phonology: A typological study of the hand-Shape parameter

Michael W Morgan

Indigenous Languages in Crisis: Ethnolinguistic Diaspora within Nepal

Karna Rana

Multilingualism in Newar: A study of language use and attitudes

Motikala Subba Dewan;  Bhim Lal Gautam

12:40-01:05

Reduplicated Relative Pronouns and Domain Widening in Sanskrit

Adriana Molina-Muñoz

Unconventional Syntaxes in Nagamese 

Takenori Murakami

Positional Markedness in Odia

Anusuya Nayak

Reshaping Concepts of Multiculturalism and Critical Pedagogy Through Indigenous Knowledge

Ashok Sapkota

Developing a digital Bengali pronunciation dictionary as a part of Online Bengali language teaching

Niladri Sekhar Dash

01:05-02:05

LUNCH BREAK

02:05-02:50

PLENARY TALK I

VENUE: MBM HALL

SONAL KULKARNI-JOSHI “Dialectology beyond the isogloss: Insights from a digital database of Marathi”

CHAIR: Madhav P Pokhrel

02:50-03:40

SESSION II

Syntax

Room:101

Chair: Adriana Molina-Muñoz

Typology

Room:102

Chair: Cathryn Donahue

Morphology

Room:103

Chair: Anju Saxena

Sociolinguistics

Room:104

Chair: Dripta Piplai

Applied Linguistics

Room: 109

Chair: Motikala Subba Dewan

02:50-03:15

The Syntax of Sluicing in Assamese 

Eshani Baishya

Isolation and contact: The diversification paths of Nepali-related languages

Sarah R. Shackelford

Converbs in Purbiya Raji

Dubinanda Dhakal

Lexical Borrowing in Kol from Banglaː Categorization, effects, and borrowing hierarchy

Mashrur Imtiaz

Communication Issues with Autistic Children

Madhu Prasad Aryal

03:15-03:40

Negative Existential Cycle in Western Indo Aryan

Vyom Sharma

Lexical Comparison in the Gurung (Tamu) language

Tara Mani Rai

Arjun Rai

Variations in Nepali verb root and question on citation form 

Bhim Narayan Regmi

Language Contact and Borrowing: A Case of Nominal Compounds in Kumaoni

Anshikha Adhikari

 Translanguaging as a resistance to monoglossic thinking: A case of assessment in higher education in Nepal

Prem Prasad Poudel; Bala Ram Adhikari

03:00-03:45

(PARALLEL)

PLENARY TALK II

VENUE: MBM HALL

MARILEE COLES-RITCHIE: Implementing writer’s workshop in South Asia’s multilingual classrooms: Embracing indigenous knowledge

Chair: Bhim Lal Gautam

03:40-03:55

TEA BREAK

03:55-05:10

SESSION III

Syntax

Room:101 

Chair: Ayesha Kidwai

Phonology

Room:102

Chair: Paroma Sanyal

Semantics

Room:103

Chair: Ojaswee Bhalla

Sociolinguistics

Room:104

Chair: Sonal Kulkarni

Identity and Politics

Room:109

Chair: Karthick Narayan

03:55-04:20

The syntax of agreement in Pnar

Tanmoy Bhattacharya;

Imontre Sutnga

How marked is geminate as a construct in a phonological string: Derived and underived

environments in Malayalam

Greeshma Joseph

Redundant or differentiated? Distribution of spatial information in caused Motion events in Nepali

Krishna Parajuli 

A sociolinguistic survey of Kulung communities in Sankhuwasabha, Nepal

Y. L. Wong

“Apun aisach baat karta hai”: Standard, Bambaiyya, and the Politics of Patois

Hridaya Ajgaonkar

04:20-04:45

Syntax of ditransitive objects in some Tibeto-Burman languages 

Jyoti Sharma

Laryngeal Markedness in Chhatthare Limbu: An Optimality Theoretic Analysis

Krishna Chaursiya

Relative Clauses in Indo-Aryan Perspectives on Diachronic Pragmatics

Rainer Kimmig

Semantic transparency in contact language development

Peter Slomanson

04:45-05:10

Agreement in Dumi

Sakshi Bhatia, Leland Kusmer and Ekaterina Vostrikova

Reduplication Patterns in (Dharamshala) Tibetan: An Optimality Theoretic Account

Sharmistha Sarkar

Somdev Kar

Conditional constructions

Kalyanamalini Sahoo; Sanjaya Lenka; Anuradha Sudharsan

Linguistic and Cultural Trajectories of Gopali Community in Chitlang Valley

Bhim Lal Gautam; Madhu Giri

07:00

CONFERENCE DINNER

09:30-10:45

DAY 2: SUNDAY 27 NOV 2022

SESSION IV

Syntax

Room:101

Chair: John J. Lowe

Phonology

Room:102

Chair: Bhim Regmi

Typology

Room:103

Chair: Aimee Lahaussois

Morphology

Room:104

Chair: Dubinanda Dhakal

Sociolinguistics

Room:109

Chair: Uma Shrestha

09:30-09:55

Topicalization and Ambiguity

Nomi Erteschik-Shir

Pitch and Prominence in Hrusso Aka: A study of tone-stress interaction

Vijay A. D'Souza

A Contrastive study of Negative Polarity Items in Korean and Manipuri

Ahanthem Romita Devi

Numerals in Hrangkhol

Nawaf Zahdaan Helmi

Multilingualism and Language Shift in Chhantyal

Manju Dhital

09:55-10:20

Null objects and light verbs in eastern Tamang 

Michael Barrie; Jungu Kang

Laryngeal markedness: Evidence from native Hindi speaker’s intuitions

Krishna Chaursiya

Paroma Sanyal

Spatial Deictics in the Kiranti Languages

Tara Mani Rai

Infinitive, gerund and gerundive in early New Indo-Aryan

Krzysztof Stroński

Saartje Verbeke

Supplementary culture shared by Sanskrit and Lithuanian speakers

Raghunath Adhikari

10:20-10:45

Nominal Anaphors in Lotha: An Anomaly?

Lopbilo Tsopoe

Glottal Fricative /h/ as Tone Inducing Consonant in Punjabi

Manujata Gupta

Reduplication in Newar

Rishi Ram Paudyal

Critical EFL Teacher Preparation:

Investment, Identity, Chinese Pre-service teachers

Yue Zhang

10:45-11:30

PLENARY TALK III

VENUE: MBM HALL

ANJU SAXENA “Northwest Himalayan linguistic prehistory in a new light”

CHAIR: Tanmoy Bhattacharya

11:30-11:45

TEA BREAK

11:45-01:00

SESSION V

Syntax

Room:101

Chair: Michael Barrie

Phonetics

Room:102

Chair: Priyankoo Sarmah

Syntax

Room:103

Chair: Nomi Erteschik-Shir 

Morphology

Room:104 

Chair: 

11:45-12:10

Relative Constructions in Classical Sanskrit

John J. Lowe; Adriana Molina-Muñoz; Antonia Ruppel

Identification and Acoustic Characterization of the Nepali Diphthongs

Krishna Prasad Chalise

The Role of Lexical Arrays in Scrambling

Adwitiya Dixit

Syncretism and underspecification in Telugu agreement paradigm

Nikhilesh Thirukovela

12:10-12:35

On the participant layer at the periphery of Spiti pronouns and reflexives

Yangchen Roy

The Vowels of Badaga Re-examined

Paul Arsenault

Questioning the CP-phasehood of Bangla ECM clauses 

Mouma Banik

English phrasal verbs with the particle up and their Hindi equivalents

Pursotam Kumar; Sanjukta Ghosh; Anil Thakur

12:35-O1:20

PLENARY TALK IV

TANMOY BHATTACHARYA “Revisiting Caryāgītikoṣa: An early rise of addressee agreement”

CHAIR: Ram Awatar Yadav

01:20-02:20

LUNCH BREAK

02:20-03:35

WORKSHOP I: PHONETICS-PHONOLOGY

Venue: MBM Hall

CHAIR: PRIYANKOO SARMAH & PAROMA SANYAL

03:35-03:50

TEA BREAK

03:50-05:05

PANEL: Diversity and Multilingualism: Language politics in South Asia

Venue: MBM Hall

CHAIR: Abhi Narayan Subedi, Ayesha Kidwai, Dripta Piplai, Kundan Aryal, Prem Phyak

MODERATION: Bhim Lal Gautam

05:05-05:45

POSTER SESSION – I

Venue: MBM HALL

P1-01

Sayantani Banerjee;

Chandni Dutta

Genitive Case Assignment in Bangla Subjects

P1-02

Gurudev Kushal

Negation in Sambalpuri: A Typological Study

P1-03

Seema

Cognitive-Semantic Analysis of Hindi Postpositions

P1-04

Abhijeet Satsangi;

Sanjukta Ghosh

Linguistic Hedging in Hindi Academic Writing

09:30-10:45

DAY 3: MONDAY 28 NOV 2022

SESSION VI

Syntax

Room:101 

Chair: Krzysztof Stroński

Phonology

Room:102 

Chair: Kamal Poudel

Sociolinguistics

Room:103 

Chair: Tanmoy Bhattacharya

Language Loss

Room:104 

Chair: Karna Rana

Applied Linguistics

Room:109 

Chair: Prem Phyak

09:30-09:55

Targeted manners of motion in Malayalam 

K. Srikumar

The phonological ingredients of Mappila-Arabian cuisine: A journey from unmarked to markedness along the Malabar coast

Thamanna Raza P 

Somdev Kar

Shadhubhasha, Standardization and the rise of ‘Musolmani Bangla’: Bangla and Bengali Muslims in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

Suma Chisti

Understanding Language Endangerment among the Toda of The Nilgiris, India

R. Karthick Narayanan 

Upgrading the existing Bengali WordNet with new content, features, and functionalities to strengthen the digital lexical resource

Srija Deb;  Nirnoy Dutta; Meghna Majumder; Niladri Sekhar Dash

09:55-10:20

Negation in Spiti 

Rajamathangi S

A typology of Geminates in Indic languages

Ankita Prasad

A preliminary analysis of the Hindu and Christian varieties of Konkani spoken in Manglore

Ruta Paradkar

Language attitudes and linguistic vitality: Hong Kong and Nepal

Cathryn Donohue

Teacher agency: Creating Multilingual Space in EMI Classroom

Nani Babu Ghimire 

10:20-10:45

Closest Conjunct Agreement as Ellipsis in Hindi-Urdu

Nupur Asher

Sound Change of Retroflex Tap/Flap and Apical Alveolar Trill: A Case Study in Bangla

Alokesh Majumder

The Rajbanshi Continuum and Changing Patterns of Verbal Forms

Dripta Piplai

Uplifting the Chhetteli Language for its Sustainable Language Use

Dan Raj Regmi

Problems of Reading and Transliterating Urdu script: In reference to Human and Machine

Sabahuddin Ahmad

10:45-11:30

PLENARY TALK V

VENUE: MBM HALL

ALEXANDER COUPE “Cognitive schemas, language contact and alignment change in Nagamese”

CHAIR: Dubinanda Dhakal

11:30-11:45

TEA BREAK

11:45-12:35

SESSION VII

Syntax

Room:101

Chair: Rajamathangi S.

SA English

Room:102

Chair: Niladri Shekhar Dash

Semantics

Room:103 

Chair: Krishna Parajuli

Sociolinguistics

Room:104 

Chair: 

Applied Linguistics

Room:109 

Chair: Michael W. Morgan

11:45-12:10

Verb Agreement in Bagri and Dhundhari 

Sakshi Bhatia; Arpita Chopra; Punam Silu

Empirical short-term diachronic studies on a linguistic epicentre of South Asian Englishes

Tobias  Bernaisch; Stefan Th. Gries; Nina Funke; Karola Schmidt

Motion event encoding in contemporary Sanskrit

Rodrigo Becerra; Deepro Chakraborty 

Metaphors and Folksongs: Assertion of Female Identity through Metaphorical Expression in Kajari Folksongs

Milan Chauhan

Towards a Mother-language based Multi-lingual Education in Jharkhand, India

Binay Pattanayak

12:10-12:35

A Study of Processing Difficulty in Northern Standard Bhojpuri Dialect of India 

Mandvi Singh, Nisheeth Joshi and Pragya Katyayan

Cognitive Semantic Analysis of the prepositions IN and ON in the class I NCERT textbook of English

Siddharth Chauhan; SanjuktaGhosh

Deontic Necessity Modals in Marathi

Nirnimesh Bhattacharjee;

Shubham Bokade

Linguistic patterns in mixed languages are conditioned by sociolinguistic factors: Corpus-based evidence from Lánnang-uè conjunctions and

prepositions

Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales

Epistemic injustice, Indigenous languages and language education policy in Nepal

Prem Phyak

11:45-12:45

(PARALLEL)

PANEL (IN NEPALI)

VENUE: MBM HALL

LANGUAGE COMMISSION OF NEPAL

MODERATION: BARSHA LEKHI

12:45-O1:30

PLENARY TALK VI

VENUE: MBM HALL

AIMEE LAHAUSSOIS “A terminographic study of ideophonic lexemes in Kiranti language descriptions”

CHAIR: Madhav P. Pokharel

01:30-02:30

LUNCH BREAK

02:30-03:45

SESSION VIII

Syntax

Room:101

Chair: Sakshi Bhatia

Phonology

Room:102

Chair: Vijay A. D'Souza

Morphology

Room:103

Chair: Ambika Regmi

Sociolinguistics

Room:104

Chair: 

Literature

Room:109

Chair: Dhruba Karki

02:30-02:55

Habituality, Perfectivity and Ergativity in Nepali 

Raj Laxmi Singh

The optional Schwa in Hindi

C. Tanuj Barla

Lexical Reduplication in Khortha: An Endangered Language of Jharkhand

Akash Kumar; Bablu Ray

नेपालमा बहुभाषिकशिक्षाः सपना र वास्तविक्ता

Anjali Adhikari

Identity and Folklores: Memorates in Mahasui Folklores

Vani Sirkeck

02:55-03:20

Phasing out aspect in Bhojpuri?

Namrata Kumari

The distribution of Fricatives in Sylheti with special reference to the palatal

Ankita Prasad;  Arpita Goswami

Case Marking System in Sampang

Rohini Rai

भारतीय नेपालीकथामा प्रयुक्तलैङ्गिकताको भाषा

Kapil Tamang

Portrayal of Hegemonic Masculinity in Virginia Woolf's: The Waves

Prashant Kumar

03:20-03:45

Case Marking in Odia:

The issues with Genitive Hosts for Case Stacking

Biswanath Dash

Argument and function structures of causative complex predicates in Maithili

Binod K Yadav

प्रदीप गुरुङका कथामास्वनिमिक भेद  

Chandrika Rai

Language of Thinking in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot

Raj Kishor Singh

02:30-03:15

(PARALLEL)

PLENARY TALK VII

VENUE: MBM HALL

MADHAV POKHREL: “Evolution of grammar in the inscriptional Pahadi”

CHAIR: Krzysztof Stroński

03:45-04:00

TEA BREAK

04:00-05:40

SESSION IX

Syntax

Room:101 

Chair: Tova Rapoport

Semantics

Room:102

Chair: Toshiki Osada

Syntax

Room:103

Chair: Dan Raj Regmi

Sociolinguistics

(in Nepali)

Room:104

Chair: Karnakhar Khatiwada

Typology

Room:109

Chair: 

04:00-04:25

An Exoskeletal approach to language mixing within verbs 

Ritu Santh

The Tutsa NP: Grammar and Meaning

Gautam K. Borah;

Monjushna Sudhakaran

Nominative case change in Indo-Aryan diachrony

Sayantani Banerjee 

राजेन्द्र भण्डारीकाकवितामा कोड वमश्रण

Ashish Tamang

Pronominal in Chakma, Bengali and Assamese Languages: A Comparative Analysis

Jonali Saikia

Mary Kim Haokip

04:25-04:50

Re-investigating the Meaning of the Hindi Particle -to

Ojaswi Bhalla

Semantic Classification of Nepali Verbs

Krishna Maya Magar

Long Distance Agreement with reference to conjunct verb 

Noman Tahir; M J Warsi

इन्द्रबहादुर राईकाकथामा प्रयुक्तगालीसूचक शब्दहरूकोविश्लेषण

Rishant Tamang

Agreement in Tharu: A Comparative Study

Krishna Paudyal

04:50-05:15

On Bangla go and re

Yangchen Roy; Nirmimesh Bhattacharya

A Lexical Analysis of Kinship Terms in Manbhumi Dialect of Bangla

Swagata Acharya

सङ्कथनमा अन्विति व्यवस्था  दृष्टांतमा इन्द्र  बहादुर राईकृति  ‘अलन्तरमा’कथा

Shiben Sharma

05:15-05:55

POSTER SESSION - II

Venue: MBM HALL

P2-01

P2-02

Sushma Rai

नेपाली भाषामा दर्शक सर्वनामको अवधारणा

P2-03

Niraj Thapa

दार्जिलिङ-सिक्किम क्षेत्रका चालकहरूले बोल्ने भाषा

06:00-06:45

CLOSING SESSION

09:00-10:00

DAY 4: TUESDAY 29 NOV 2022

WORKSHOP: SOUTH ASIAN ENGLISHES

VENUE: TU

CHAIR: 

10:00-10:15

TEA BREAK