38th International Conference of Linguistic Society of November 10-12, 2016 PROGRAM Registration and Opening Ceremony 9.00-10.00 Registration 10.00-11.00 Opening Ceremony & High Tea 11.00-12.00 Keynote: Prof. Hans Henrich Hock: South Asia and Historical Linguistics DAY-1 HALL-A: Phonetics & Phonology HALL-B: Syntax HALL-C: Language Typology Session Chair: Shakuntala Mahanta Session Chair: Tanmoy Bhattacharya Session Chair: Anvita Abbi 12.00-12.20 D1A01: Nishant Lohagun D1B01: Bornini Lahiri D1C01: Bikram Jora and Gregory D S An analysis of steady-state formant Marking the Space through various Cases Anderson frequencies and vowel duration in oral Spatial expressions, directionals and monophthongs of standard and Darjeeling-ey serialization in Birhor Nepali 12.20-12.40 D1A02: Anjaneyulu Ghandapuram D1B02: Marykim Haokip D1C02: Kavita Rastogi, Sumedha Shukla and Phonological factors in Short Message Service Pronominalization in Thadou, a Kuki-Chin Ajay Kumar Singh (SMS) of Telugu native speakers: A Pilot Study Language Some Aspects of Jad An Endangered Language 12.40-13.00 D1A03: Anusuya Nayak D1B03: Meenakshi Chaudhary D1C03: Sapam Sangita Chanu Nasalization, Pre-nasalization and other Anaphors in Mara A Phonological Study of Zeme Morpho-phonemic processes in Gaddi 13.00-13.20 D1A04: Bipasha Patgiri D1B04: Padmabati Achom D1C04: Soibam Imoba and Oinam Nanao Nature of vowel sequences and hiatus The Syntax of scope of Epistemic and Deontic Problems in giving English prepositional resolution in Nalbaria Assamese Modals in Meeteilon correspondence to Manipuri postposition in bilingual dictionary 13.30-14.30: Lunch

38th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India November 10-12, 2016 PROGRAM DAY-1 HALL-A: Morphosyntax HALL-B: Cognitive Linguistics & Language HALL-C: Language Typology Acquisition Session Chair: Arup Kumar Nath Session Chair: Umarani Pappuswami Session Chair: T Temsunungsang 14.30-14.50 D1A05: Aleendra Brahma and Bidisha Som D1B05: Madhavi Kushwaha D1C05: Wanglit Mongchan Core Cases and Definitives Correlation in Bodo Understanding Polysemy : Cognitive Verb reduplication in Hawa Nokte and Dimasa Approach 14.50-15.10 D1A06: Alfina Khaidem D1B06: Paroma Sanyal D1C06: Wichamdinbo Mataina Feezing Effect of Complementiser in Meeteilon Locating Root Identity: Acquisition of A phonology of Liangmai suppletive morphology 15.10-15.30 D1A07: Basavaraja Kodagunti D1B07: Bidisha Som, Sugandha Kaur and D1C07: Yashawanta Singh Ch and Brindebala How many case markers in a language: a Sampreeti Das Devi Naorem study on Kannada Literal and Metaphorical Comprehension of Changes in Negative markers in Kakching Auditory Sense Perception Verb in Assamese Dialect 15.30-15.50 D1A08: Ojaswee Bhalla D1B08: Vasanta Duggirala D1C08: Chandrika Barua Interaction of Wh-series and Topic Particle ‘to’ Semantic properties of Reduplicated Case variation in Kamrupi and Eastern in Hindi expressions in Telugu: A cognitive Linguistic Assamese perspective 15.50 – 16.10 D1A09: Rajamathangi S D1B09: Suman Beniwal D1C09: Priyanka Shukla & Shailendra Singh Stripping in Tami Linguistic analysis of military euphemisms Linguistic Landscaping in India: with special reference to Mumbai 16.10-16.30: Tea 16.30-17.30: LSI EC Meeting

38th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India November 10-12, 2016 PROGRAM DAY-2 HALL-A: Morphology & Morphosyntax HALL-B: Language Technology & HALL-C: Semantics Language disorder Session Chair: Yashawanta Singh Ch Session Chair: S Ranbir Singh Session Chair: Bidisha Som 09.00-09.20 D2A01: Arup Kumar Nath D2B01: Felix Bast D2C01: Emily Thomas Verbal Inflectional Paradigm in the Darrangia Subgroup structure of the language families Mood and Modality in Totok Chingkho Dialect of Assamese of India revealed using computational phylogenetics 09.20-09.40 D2A02: Shreya Mehta D2B02: Mohammad Mamun Or Rashid D2C02: Atreyee Mukherjee and Achla M Verb Inflection in Gaddi App for Endangered Language Raina Documentation: Functions in the Field Fictive Motion in Spatial and Non-spatial Domains in Bangla 09.40-10.00 D2A03: Dhanapati Shougrakpam D2B03: Indranil Dutta, Irfan S and Priyankoo D2C03: Sannati More Nominal Compounds in Manipuri Sarmah Person, social and spatial deixis in Totok Statistical Learning Models for vowel Chingkho identification from V-to-V coarticulation in Assamese non-harmonic VCV sequences 10.00-10.20 D2A04: Hari Madhab Ray D2B04: Ritesh Kumar D2C04: Anirban Sarkar Menu Cards of the Eateries in JNU (Jawaharlal Using and evaluating Google OCR for Spatial representation in Bengali through Nehru University): A Survey of Morphological Devanagari: Case of Bodo and Braj Text vectors Processes Corpora

10.20-10.40 D2A05: Shailendra Mohan D2B05: Smita Jha and Krishna Kumar D2C05: Christina Kharlukhi and Gordon Nihali Morpho-syntax: Internal and External Pandey Deans Dkhar Factors in their Development Language Disorder in Early and Later Argument Structures And Thematic Roles in Childhood Rongmei: A Case Study 10.40-11.00 D2A06: Tikaram Poudel D2B06: Anuja Singh, Ruchi Singh and D2C06: Suspended Affixation in Manipuri Priyanka Autism: A Case Study 11.00-11.50: Tea & Poster Session A

38th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India November 10-12, 2016 PROGRAM PA01: Sarada Biswas and Tista Bagchi PA02: Aisha Saleh Tectogrammatical Representation and Annotation in Hindi and Bangla: A Effects of gender and dialect on the production of word and sentence durations possible strategy for semantic information retrieval of three Yemeni Arabic Dialects: An acoustic study

PA03: Arya K S PA04: Dhrubajyoti Das and Paromita Nandy Non-intervocalic Geminates in Malayalam Language Variation in consonant phonology of native Bangla speakers in Kerala when speaking Malayalam

PA05: Gulab Chand and Somdev Kar PA06: Juri Saikia Sonority and Reduplication in Hadoti Contrast Between Oral And Nasal Vowels In Sadri Spoken In

PA07: Loitongbam Sarankumari Devi PA08: Hanjabam Surmangol Sharma Sound System of Kabonglo Morphophonemic Changes in Manipuri

PA09: Temsunungsang T and Chomgom Damrengthang Aimol PA10: G.S. Bansode. Some phonological and morphological aspects of Aimol An Ostracized Language and an Evaluation of Ethnolinguistic Vitality: A Case of Paradhi

PA11: Alkafil Choudhury PA12: : Enakshi Nandi and Noel Mark Sequeira Hajong- A Study in Relation to Assamese and Bengali Konkani in the post-post-colonial era

PA13: Laxmi Kumari and Md Mojibur Rahman PA14: Moumita Pakrashi Santhal and Mundari Folktales of Jharkhand: A Study in Sociocultural Modern Standard Colloquial Bangla: Micro and Macro Segment Study Discourse

PA15: Deepa Mary Joseph and Arun Thomas A PA16: Pratik Kumar Mahant, Priyeshi Kumari and Salman Alam Matrimonies in Kerala Society-A Sociolinguistic Approach Classification Of Euphemism With Reference To Hindi

PA17: Ambika Sankar Mishra & Biswanandan Dash. PA18: Reshma Jacob The New Media Language English Loanwords in Malayalam

PA19 Sukdeb Goswami PA20: Pitambar Behera & Sharmin Muzaffar Co-operative Principle & hyperbolic statements in poetry Proposing a Pāniniān Parser for Case Marker Errors in English-Odia Machine Translation

38th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India November 10-12, 2016 PROGRAM DAY-2 HALL-A: Sociolinguistics and Hindi HALL B: Language Technology and HALL- C: Semantics & Discourse Processing Session Chair: Mithilesh Jha Session Chair: Vasanta Duggirala Session Chair: Paroma Sanyal 11.50-12.10 D2A07: Louriyam Bebica Devi D2B07: Apurva and Samar Husain D2C07: Nandini Bhattacharya Proverbs in Khurkhul What Do Hindi Native Speakers Predict? Modified Numerals in Bangla: A Semantic Investigating Verb Class, Verb Morphology view and Word Order 12.10-12.30 D2A08: Debmalya Biswas D2B08: Dhirendra Singh D2C08: Shraddha Ratori Polarizing Hinduism: A Sociolinguistic Scrutiny Predicting Compositional Degree in Multiword Hindi Mass Plurals of the Virtual Domains Expression using Word Embeddings 12.30-12.50 D2A09: Divya Pathak D2B09: Revathi Suresh D2C09: Bishakha Das बदलाव के बीच हिꅍदी: अतीत, वततमान और भहव�य Processing of Embedded Complement Clauses ‘Hue’ &'Brightness’ in Tai-Khamti: Colour

and Relative Clauses in Malayalam categorization and terminology 12.50-13.10 D2A10: Deepak Kumar and Neeta Tiruwa D2B10: Sugandha Kaur D2C10: Chandan Kumar अभद्र किावतⴂ मᴂ स्त्री : एक मनोभाषा वैज्ञाहनक परख Bilingual language representation and Number referents and Plurality in Magahi processing: Evidence from simple picture naming 13.10-13.30 D2A11: D2B11: Sudha Bhingardive & Dhirendra D2C11: Tariq Khan & Panchanan Mohanty Singh Identity jokes and the socio-pragmatic Automatic Synset Ranking for Indian standpoints: Examining the five Cs of humour Languages using Word Embeddings use in everyday interactions 13.30-14.30: Lunch

38th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India November 10-12, 2016 PROGRAM DAY 2 Plenary and Invited Talk

14.30 – 15.10 Plenary Talk: Tor Andres Åfarli Endo- and exoskeletal models of grammar: How to explain argument structure flexibility, lexical creativity, and language mixing.

15.10 – 15.45 Invited Talk: Tanmoy Bhattacharya Code-Switching without Grammar? Evidence from Language Mixing in Meiteilon-English and Bangla-Hindi

15.45-16.00: Tea

DAY 2 Special Session on Nominal Expressions Special Session on Focus and Intonation

16.00-16.10 Introduction by Umarani Pappuswami Introduction by Shakuntala Mahanta

16.10-16.30 SPO01: Raujline Akhtar and Gautam K Borah Distinguishing SPO01: Ambalika Guha Focus and Deletion in the Bangla DP Classifiers from Measure Terms in Karbi

16.30-16.50 SPO02: Parijat Narzary: Classifier in Bodo SPO02: Barnali Oinam Intonation of Interrogatives in Barak Valley Meitei

16.50-17.10 SPO03: Maibam Somobala Devi The morphosyntax of SPO03: Meiraba Takhellambam Intonational phonology of Meiteilol demonstratives in Meiteilon 17.15-16.15: LSI GB Meeting

38th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India November 10-12, 2016 PROGRAM DAY-3 HALL-A: Translation HALL-B: Bilingualism and Multilingualism HALL-C: Morphosyntax of Negation Session Chair: Mithilesh Kumar Jha Session Chair: Bidisha Som Session Chair: Diganta Nath 09.00 - 09.20 D3A01: Madri Kakoti D3B01: Anupama Purohit D3C01: R Karthick Narayanan Distorting ‘translation’: An examination of Multilingualism and Early Childhood: A Study Mapping Morphological Properties of J-Horror Manga ‘Tomie’ of Word- Formation Processes Negation in Indian Languages 09.20-09.40 D3A02: Jyotirmoy Talukdar D3B02: Dripta Piplai D3C02: Mechek Sampar Awan Translating Disability, Disabling Translation: Code Avoidance and Multilingual Strategy: Negation in Chiru Language and/of Disablement in Saurabh The Language of Negotiation by the Artisan Kumar Chaliha’s 'Hanhichampa' Villagers of Odisha 09.40-10.00 D3A03: Arvind Rawat D3B03: Poulami Das D3C03: Vyom Sharma Trends of Translation in : A Bilingual Learning Stategies Used by Bangla Syntax of Negation in Gaddi Historical Discussion Speaking Children to Acquire English as Their Second Language

10.00-11.30: Tea and Poster Session B

PB01: Daimalu Brahma PB02: Bijayanti Haobam Derivational processes of the Bodo Nouns and Pronouns in Somdal (a dialect of Tangkhul)

PB03: H Dune Antonia Pao and Adu Pao PB04: Ganga Brahma Verbal suffixes of Poula Complex Predicates in Boro

PB05: Gordon Deans Dkhar PB06: Suranjana Barua Word Order Typology of Jingphaw: A Tibeto-Burman Language Filling in the blanks: A typological classification of some Assamese fillers

PB07: Trisha Borgohain PB08: Gaurashyam Singh Hidam, Alfina Khaidem and Padmabati Achom Causatives in Tai-Khamti Ergative Case in Meeteilon

PB09: Kumari Mamta PB10: Mary Kim Haokip and Hemminlal Haokip Morphosyntax of Numeral System of Bodo and Meiteilon Word Order in Biate

PB11: Pijush Kanti Gayen Disambiguating Bangla Verbs in Lexical Functional Grammar 38th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India November 10-12, 2016 PROGRAM PB13: Pooja Saikia PB14: Rujab Muchahary A Minimalist Approach to Small Clause of the Gender Distinction In Mech Dialect

PB15: Shubham Srivastava PB16: Srikanth Kumar D and Ankita Karmakar Finiteness as a Semantic Concept in Hindi Reduplication and Onomatopoeias in Telugu and Bengali

PB17: Sumshot Khular and Shobhana Chelliah PB18: Lourembam Surjit Singh Reduplication in Lamkang Semantic and Syntactic Features of CP in Meeteilon

PB19: Venial In Goodhope Marthong PB20: Atreyee Sharma & Pramod Rout Word formation in Mawїang Rule based disambiguation of "se" in Odia

PB21: Pitambar Behera & Sharmin Muzaffar PB22: Maitrayee Patar An Experiment with CRF++ Parts of Speech Tagger for Odia Of Being Tiwa in Assam: Assimilation and Beyond

DAY-3 HALL-A: Syntax HALL-B: Language in Media HALL-C: Writing systems and Historical Linguistics Session Chair: Tanmoy Bhattacharya Session Chair: Priyankoo Sarmah Session Chair: P N Kamala 11.30-11.50 D3A04: Nivedita Mitra D3B04: Priyanka Rachabattuni and Nandi D3C04: Bobita Sarangthem, Laishram Lokendro A Study on Some Asymmetries in Bangla Chinni Kumar and Sahiinii Lemaina Veikho Television Advertisements and its Language Script and phonology of Meiteilon; a diachronic Change: A Critical Study on the Issues of Audio study Visual Machine Translations 11.50-12.10 D3A05: Renu Kumari D3B05: Sayani Banerjee and Shrirupa Sen D3C05: Janani K Aspectual Class Shift in Magahi Code-Switching in Bangla Movies—A Syntactic Colonial Linguistics, Ancient Grammatical Texts Study and the Construction of ‘Tradition’: A Study of the Tolkappiamo 12.30-13.00 Valedictory, Closing & Certificates 13.00-14.00: Lunch