SCHEDULE

(7:00 – 8:00)

Plenary: Hal Schiffman

"What can the study of Language Policy contribute to South Asian Linguistics? "

(8:00 - 9:00)

Plenary: Pradeep Dhillon

"Global Language, Colonial Discourse and World Englishes"

(9:45 - 10:45)

Plenary: Rajesh Bhatt

"Temporal Correlatives"

(11:00 – 11:30) Corinna Anderson

"An Unexpected Split within Nepali Simple Correlatives"

(11:00 - 11:30) K. V. Narayana

"New trends in Kannada Lexicography"

(11:00 – 11:30) Priyankoo Sarmah

"An Instrumental Analysis of Mizo Tones and Tone Alternations in Mizo Compound Words"

(11:30 – 12:00) Prashant Pardeshi

"Toward Resolution of the Controversy over the Function of the Passive - A Cross-Linguistic Study of the Passive in some South Asian, East Asian, and South-East Asian Languages"

(11:30 – 12:00 ) Richard W Hallett and Judith Kaplan-Wenger

"Encouraging Travel in the Context of Boycott: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Myanmar Tourism Guides"

(11:30 – 12:00) Divya Verma

"Onset of Rising Pitch in Focused Words in Hindi: an Experimental Study"

(1:00 – 2:00)

Plenary: S. N. Sridhar

"Language and Social Transformation: Evolution of Contemporary Kannada"

(2:15 - 2:45) Peter Slomanson

"The Syntax of the Finiteness Contrast in Sri Lankan Malay"

(2:15 – 2:45) Suhail M Islam

"The Invisible Wall of Language: Bengali Language Planning and its Political and Cultural Significance

(2:15 - 2:45) Bhavani Saravanan

"Codas and Syllable Weight in Dravidian"

(2:45 – 3:15) Archna Bhatia

"Role of Definiteness, Specificity, and Animacy in the Prominence of Object NPs in Hindi"

(2:45 – 3:15) Li Chen

"Fricativization of Voiceless Aspirates in Bangla: a sound change in progress?"

(3:15-3:45) Franklin C. Southworth

"The SARVA Online Dictionary Project"

(3:15 – 3:45) Indranil Dutta

"Voicing, Aspiration, and f0 Properties of Hindi Stops"

(4:00 – 4:30) Nitya Sethuraman and Linda B Smith

"Verb Meaning and Argument Structure in an Argument-Dropping Language"

(4:00 – 4:30) Jennifer Cole

"Shifting Patterns of Sindhi Language Use: Evidence for Renewal or Decline?"

(4:30 – 5:00) Sudha Arunachalam

"Zero Pronouns in Tamil and Malayalam"

(4:30 – 5:00) Sadaf Munshi

"Language Contact and Change in J and K Burushaski"

(7:00 – 8:00)

Plenary: Rajeshwari Pandharipande

"Ideology, Authority, and Language Choice: Language of Religion in South Asia"

(8:00 – 9:00)

Plenary: Hans Henrich Hock

"Historical Linguistics and Identity / Ideology: The Case of South Asia "

(9:00 – 10:00)

Plenary: Tara Mohanan and K. P . Mohanan

"Universal Grammar, Constructions, and South Asian Languages"

(10:15 – 10:45) Indira Jungare

"Social Meaning in Linguistic Structure: Code Switching and Language Choice, the example of a bilingual Marathi Community in the USA"

(10:15 – 10:45) Peter E Hook and Prashant Pardeshi

"Are Vector Verbs Eternal?"

(10:15 – 10:45) Aarre Laakso

"Bringing Vanitha into the Digital Age"

(10:45 – 11:15) Malashri Ghosh

"Code Switching in Hindi-English Entertainment Discourse: A Rational Theory Model"

(10:45 – 11:15) Benjamin Slade

"Historical Change and Repair of Aktionsart: The Development of Compound Verbs/Absolutives in Indo-Aryan, esp. Hindi and Nepali"

(10:45– 11:15) Lakshmi Haribandi

"Shifts of Cohesion in Translation"

(11:15 – 11:45) Aadil Kak and Sajad Wani

" Case for Base: the Notion of base Language in Kashmiri-English Code Mixing"

(11:15 – 11:45) Elena Bashir

"Reduplication as Metalinguistic Comment"

(1:00 – 2:00)

Plenary: T. K. Bhatia

"Media Modalities, Multilingual Contexts, and Marketing: Advertising in Rural India"

(2:15 - 2:45) Anupam Das

"Parliament Attack: Discourse and Ideology in Indian English Newspapers"

(2:15 - 2:45) Andrew Nevins

"Grammatical Ambiguity and the Optionality of Hindi Long-Distance Anaphora"

(2:15 - 2:45) Rizwan Ahmad

"Hindi is Perfect; Urdu is Messy: Construction of Hindi and Urdu in the 19th Century

"(2:45 – 3:15) Asha Tickoo

"The Narrative Style of Hatim's Tales

(2:45 – 3:15) Lavanya Sankaran

"Verifying the Aspect Hypothesis: A Tamil Language Study Comparing Child Data with Adult Data"

(2:45 – 3:15) Anita Singh

"Indian Fiction in English Language: Politics of Decentering"

(3:15– 3:45) Rizwan Ahmad and Sai Samant

"Imaginings of Hindi in the Dalit Resistance Movement

(3:15 – 3:45) Peter Slomanson and Scott Paauw

"Postpositions, n(y)-elements, and case in Sri Lankan Malay"

(3:15– 3:45) Vineeta Chand

"Expressing Emotion in Hindi and English"

(4:00 – 4:30) Pritha Chandra

"Hindi-Urdu Agreement Under Control"

(4:30 – 5:00) Elabbas Benmamoun & Rajesh Kumar

"NPI licensing: Covert or Overt"

(6:00 – 7:00)

Plenary: Raj Mesthrie

"Indian Languages in Diaspora - Towards a Typology"

(7:00 – 8:00)

Plenary: U. N. Singh

Devaluation of Language: Debates from South Asia on 'Prakritization' of the Bhashas"

(9:00 – 10:00)

Plenary: K. V. Subbarao

"Backward Control"

(9:00 – 10:00)

Plenary: Ramakant Agnihotri

"Sustaining Local Languages in a Global Political Economy"

(11:00 – 12:00)

Plenary: Shyamala Chengappa

"Aphasia In Multilinguals"

(12:00 - 1:00)

Plenary: Richard Sproat

"Scripts, Layout and Segmental Awareness"