Program
SATURDAY 16 MARCH 2019 |
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8:00-8:45 |
breakfast + registration (3rd floor atrium) |
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8:45-9:00 |
opening remarks (PAB320) |
Sameer ud Dowla Khan (Reed) |
9:00-11:45 |
Talk session I: Dravidian syntax and semantics (PAB320) |
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9:00-10:00 |
Invited talk: Revisiting focus markers in Malayalam |
Mythili Menon (Wichita SU) |
10:00-10:30 |
The Dravidian correlative and the disjunction marker |
Rahul Balusu (EFLU) |
10:30-10:45 |
tea (3rd floor atrium) |
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10:45-11:15 |
Restructuring within the nominal domain in Kannada light verb constructions |
Sadhwi Srinivas* & Géraldine Legendre (Johns Hopkins) |
11:15-11:45 |
Telugu: An accusative case study |
Sreekar Raghotham* (Rutgers) |
11:45-12:00 |
tea (3rd floor atrium) |
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12:00-1:00 |
Poster session I (PAB 3rd floor hall) |
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‘Verb agreement’ as theta marking in Indian Sign Language |
Samar Sinha (Sikkim U) |
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Malayalam tense morphology: a reanalysis using DM lens |
Anjali Nair* (JNU) |
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Non veridicality of habitual context: analysing the role of complex predicates in NPI licensing |
Vyom Sharma* (IIT Delhi) |
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Investigating local coherence effects in Hindi |
Sakshi Bhatia* (UMass) & Samar Husain (IIT Delhi) |
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Split ergativity in Nepali |
M Stoddard** (Reed) |
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1:00-2:00 |
lunch (3rd floor atrium) |
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2:00-4:15 |
Talk session II: Experimental approaches and variability (PAB320) |
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2:00-3:00 |
Invited talk: An experimental approach to flexible constituent order: Insights from Malayalam |
Savithry Namboodiripad (U Michigan) |
3:00-3:15 |
tea (3rd floor atrium) |
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3:15-3:45 |
Optionality in Hindi schwa deletion: interaction between weighted prosodic constraints |
Paroma Sanyal & C. Tanuj Barla* (IIT Delhi) |
3:45-4:15 |
Phonetic reduction effects in Malayalam |
Elaina Wittmer** (Reed) |
4:15-4:45 |
tea + business meeting (PAB332) |
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4:45-5:45 |
Talk session III: Indo-Aryan syntax and semantics (PAB320) |
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4:45-5:15 |
Aspectual particles in Hindi |
Saket Bahuguna*, Benjamin Slade, & Aniko Csirmaz (U Utah) |
5:15-5:45 |
In support of a choice functional analysis of Sinhala ðə |
Samantha Wathugala* & Virginia Dawson* (UC Berkeley) |
6:15- |
dinner (details TBA) |
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SUNDAY 17 MARCH 2019 |
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8:15-9:00 |
breakfast (3rd floor atrium) |
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9:00-11:45 |
Talk session IV: Indo-Aryan syntax and semantics (PAB320) |
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9:00-10:00 |
Invited talk: Deconstructing correlatives: individuals and properties - the case of Hindi-Urdu correlatives and Georgian rom relatives |
Rajesh Bhatt (UMass) |
10:00-10:30 |
The morphosyntax of Magahi addressee agreement |
Deepak Alok* (Rutgers) |
10:30-10:45 |
tea (3rd floor atrium) |
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10:45-11:15 |
Settling the future: the performative effects of aspectual contrasts |
Ashwini Deo (Ohio SU) |
11:15-11:45 |
Movement within and without a clause |
Yadav Gowda* (MIT) |
11:45-12:00 |
tea (3rd floor atrium) |
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12:00-1:00 |
Poster session II (PAB 3rd floor hall) |
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Marathi complement clause structure |
Amaresh Joshi* (Michigan SU) |
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Davidsonian and Kimian states in the gerund-copula landscape |
Diti Bhadra (Harvard) & Arka Banerjee* (Jadavpur) |
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Agreement attraction in subject agreement and object agreement: evidence from Hindi |
Sakshi Bhatia* & Brian Dillon (UMass) |
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Fortition in marked on marked contexts: velar stopping in Sylheti |
Ankita Prasad* (IIT Delhi) |
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Palatalization and velarization in Malayalam nasals |
Sameer ud Dowla Khan (Reed) |
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1:00- |
lunch (3rd floor atrium, available to go) |
*The presenter is a graduate student
**The presenter is an undergraduate student