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12Th Himalayan Languages Symposium & 27Th Annual 12th Himalayan Languages Symposium & 27th Annual Conference of Linguistic Society of Nepal Program Schedule November 26, 2006 Opening 9.30 – 11.00 Chief Guest: Dr. Kamal Krishna Joshi Chairman University Grants Commission Welcome Speech: Mr. Bijay Kumar Rauniyar Secretary-Treasurer Linguistic Society of Nepal Presidential Address: Prof. Dr. Jai Raj Awasthi President Linguistic Society of Nepal Keynote Speech: Dr. Anju Saxena Department of Linguistics and Philology Uppsala University Sweden Messages: (Speakers to be mentioned later) Message from the Chief Guest: Dr. Kamal Krishna Joshi Vote of Thanks: Prof. Dr. Govind Raj Bhattarai Vice-president Linguistic Society of Nepal Refreshment 11.30 – 12.00 1 Sessions Session I: 12.00 – 13.40 Session I A: Phonology and Morphophonemics Session I B: Morphology and Morphology Gong vowels and tones Personal pronouns in Dhangar / Jhangar David Bradley Y. P. Yadava, Ram Kishun Urawn and Suren Sapkota Sound change in Kirānti-Kõits across Western Kirānti Verbal morphology in Gopali language Lal-Shyãkarelu Rapacha Rudra Laxmi Shrestha Statistical study on Nepali syllable structure Compound verb in Chintang R. Lohani and B. N. Regmi Novel Kishore Rai and Netra Prasad Paudyal Morphophonemics of Kumal verbs Tenses and aspects in Dhankute Tamang Bhim Lal Gautam Kedar Prasad Poudel Lunch Break: 13.40 – 14.30 Session II: 14.30 – 17.15 Session II B: Session II B: Sociolinguistics Session II A: Language Documentation and Sociolinguistics Ethno-genetics and ethno-linguistics of six indigenous Language documentation and the Hans Rausing populations in Nepal Endangered Languages Project Nanda Bdr Singh, Ryosuke Kimura, Yuki Anju Saxena Shimizu, Kazuhiro Nakayama and Takafumi Ishida Endangered language of Bediya Tribe: With special Borrowing in Pasap-Kha reference to Banda Kinley Dorjee Usha Sinha and Govind Swaroop Gupta Strategies of neutrality and code-mixing With us or with them: identity politics, nomenclative Grammar: A view from Kashmiri-English code-mixing crisis & consolidation process Aadil Amin Kak and Sajad Hussain Wani Samar Sinha and Tapasya Thapa Language shift from Newar to Nepali: A case study of Linguistic flip-flop among some Tibeto-Burman language shift in the Newar language of Nepal Sueyoshi Toba Jyoti Pradhan Language shift among the Qureshi community of Bhojpuri sociolect Kundal Shahi Gopal Thakur Khawaja A.Rehman Strong, weak, disappearing, dead and revived languages Linguistic acculturation among the tea garden labourers of North Bengal Shoazizov Sh. Sh. Swapan Kumar Banerjee 2 November 27, 2006 Session III: 09.30 – 11.10 Session III A: Morphosyntax Session III B: Morphosyntax Verbal negative constructions in Oriya Negativization in Danuwar Bira Chandra Singh Bhabendra Bhandari Pronominalization in Bahing Grammaticalization and epistemic extension of the verb Rajendra Thokar 'say' in Magar Karen Grunow-Hårsta Mutual agreement in Darai <-su> nominals in Namuyi Netra Prasad Paudyal Nishida Fuminobu Case marking and directional auxiliary verb in Cak Nominalization in Kaike Huziwara Keisuke Ambika Regmi Session IV: 11.10 – 13.40 Session IV A: Syntax Session IV B: Morphology and Syntax Complementation in Manipuri Personal pronoun in Hayu language Th. Sarju Devi Sulochana Sapkota Split ergativity: evidences from the Darai language Noun compounding in Dzongkha Dubi Nanda Dhakal Stephen Watters Formatted or free? unfettering grammar A note on Raji verbs George van Driem Kavita Rastogi Determiners in Kyirong Tibetan A case study of derivational suffixes in Boro Brigitte Huber Swarna Prabha Chainary On passive and volitionality Preliminary notes on Kurtoep case Tikaram Poudel Gwendolyn Lowes Lunch Break 13.40 – 14.30 Session V: 14.30 – 17.15 Session V A: Historical Linguistics, Typological Session V B: Applied Linguistics Studies and Discourse Nominalization in Himalayish languages Lessons from the individual initiatives: Torwali David E. Watters dictionary project Inam Ullah Some observations on the relationship between Kaike: Semantic and pragmatic issues in Translating Chittadhar and Tamangic Hrdaya’s Andhakār Isao Honda David Hargreaves and Uma Shrestha Adjective classes in Newar: A typological sketch Mother tongue education Tej R. Kansakar Talib Jan Sanskrit in East Asia Mimicking mahatma—the tapori way Madhav P. Pokharel Bijay Kumar Rauniyar Tense neutralisation and discourse cohesion in oral Need-based English for science and technology narratives in Far-Western Rājbanshi (NEST): A Study in Relation to Engineering Christopher Pekka Wilde R.N.Khanal Baram language: A field report Translation of culture: A cross-cultural link Balaram Prasain and Krishna P Chalise between Nepali- English proverb Balaram Adhikari 3 November 28, 2006 9.30 – 10.15 Keynote Speech on Corpus and Computational Linguistics Prof. Dr. Tony McEnery Director British Research Council U. K. Session VI: 10.15 – 13.00 Para-session I: Corpus and Computational Session VI: Morphology, Semantics and Linguistics Psycholinguistics Translation activity – an overview Verbal complexes in Chhatthare Limbu Bal Krishna Bal and Shiva Pokharel Govinda Bahadur Tumbahang Nepali Text-to-Speech system -τΑΝ, -τε and -πΑ in Bhujel Srishtee Gurung, Ishwor Thapa Dan Raj Regmi Software tools for developing Nepali General Corpus Compound verbs in Puma Sudha Sharma Acharya Narayan P Sharma (Gautam) Dictionary software for Contemporary Nepali Dictionary Morpho-semantics of Kirānti-Rodung clanonyms Dibyendra Hyoju Bag-Ayagyami Yalungcha A stemmer for Nepali Process of derivation of nouns in Rabha language Bal Krishna Bal, Balaram Prasain and Prajol Phukan Ch. Basumatary Shrestha Structure of Nepali National Corpus Nominalization in Baram Y. P. Yadava, A. Hardie, B. N. Regmi, B. Prasain, Krishna Prasad Chalise K. P. Parajuli, K. P. Chalise, L. P. Khatiwada, L. S. Pathak, R. Lohani Lunch Break: 13.00 – 13.45 4 Session VII: 13.45 – 17:00 Para-session II: Corpus and Computational Session VII: Sociolinguistics and Psycholinguistics Linguistics Stochastic and probabilistic part of speech tagger for the Developmental pattern of word-meaning knowledge Nepali language Binod Luitel Krishna Sapkota, Shailesh Pandey and Prajol Shrestha Contemporary Nepali Dictionary: a case study of Child language acquisition in Chintang in the corpus-based lexicography multilingual situation Y. P. Yadava, A. Hardie, B. N. Regmi, B. Goma Banjade Prasain, K. P. Parajuli, K. P. Chalise, L. P. Khatiwada, L. S. Pathak, R. Lohani Disambiguation based on syntactic constraints over Synopsis: Language politics in Nepal in the changed lexical tag sequences and possible semantic constraints political context for Nepali language parsing Ram Kumar Dahal Sudip Aryal, Nabin Karmacharya and Kalyan K Ghimire Structure of Nepali Spoken Corpus Socilinguistics status of Dura language B. N. Regmi, Jens. Allwood, Yohan Lund, K.B. Nagila Ramesh Karki, Rajkumar Puri and Bishnu Adhikari Post-editing in Machine Translation Quest for language co-existence in Nepal K. P. Parajuli Anju Khadka POS-tagger for Nepali National Corpus The indigenous language situation of Bangladesh A. Hardie, Y. P. Yadava, R. Lohani Sikder Monoare Murshed and B. N. Regmi Closing 17:00 – 17:30 5 .
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