PROGRAMME
36TH SOUTH ASIAN LANGUAGE ANALYSIS ROUNDTABLE & 43RD LINGUISTIC SOCEITY OF NEPAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
CENTRAL DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS, TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY & LINGUISTIC SOCEITY OF NEPAL
26-29 NOVEMBER 2022
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DAY 1
SATURDAY 26 NOV 2022
VENUE: COUNCIL HALL, MADAN BHANDARI MEMORIAL COLLEGE
08:00-09:30 |
REGISTRATION |
09:30-11:00 |
INAUGURAL SESSION |
11.00-11.15 |
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 |
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12:15-01:05 |
SESSION I |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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Semantic transparency in contact language development Peter Slomanson |
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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 |
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07:00 |
CONFERENCE DINNER |
09:30-10:45 |
DAY 2: SUNDAY 27 NOV 2022 SESSION IV |
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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11:45-12:35 |
SESSION VII |
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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
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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04:00-05:40 |
SESSION IX |
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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
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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
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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 |
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सङ्कथनमा अन्विति व्यवस्था दृष्टांतमा इन्द्र बहादुर राईकृति ‘अलन्तरमा’कथा Shiben Sharma |
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05:15-05:55 |
POSTER SESSION - II Venue: MBM HALL |
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P2-01 |
Surya Prasad Yadav | Multilingualism and language choice in Maithili community: A sociolinguistic study |
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 |