TENTATIVE PROGRAM 23RD HIMALAYAN LANGUAGES SYMPOSIUM CENTRE FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES, UNIVERSITY 5 – 7 JULY 2017

DAY 5 JULY VENUE: COUNCIL HALL, TEZPUR UNIVERSITY 09.00 - 10.00 Registration 10.00 - 11.00 INAUGURAL SESSION 10.00-10.15 Welcome Address by the Coordinator, 23rd HLS Organizing Committee 10.15-10.30 Introducing the theme of the Symposium 10.30-10.45 Inaugural Address by the Honourable Vice Chancellor, Tezpur University 10.45-10.50 Address by Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tezpur University 10.50-11.05 Address by Prof. Van Driem 11.05-11.10 Vote of Thanks

11.10-11.30 Tea break

11.30-12.30 Keynote Address: Prof. George van Driem 12.30-01.30 SESSION- I Language and Linguistics Chair: K.V. Subbarao Venue: Council Hall 12.30-12.50 The Development and Implementation of a : Koĩc (Kiranti, Tibeto-Burman): Dorte Borcher 12.50-01.10 The Consequence of Code-Mixing the Adjective in NPs in Meiteilon-English: Tanmoy Bhattacharya 01.10-01.30 Raji: A Tibeto-Burman or Austro - Asiatic Language?: Kavita Rastogi 01.30-02.30 Lunch Break 02.30-03.30 Session II Venue: Department of EFL, HSS Building Acoustic Phonetics Syntax Ethnolinguistics Applied Linguistics Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be Chair: Temsunungsang T. Chair: Tanmoy Bhattacharya Chair: Hari Madhab Ray announced) Chair: Deepa Boruah 02.30-02.50 Acoustic analysis of the Nepali Tracing through Tribal Development Boards and Influence of Assamese L2 Case-marking Ethnic Languages in the on Mising L1 speakers: Krishna Prasad Chalise Pritha Chandra Darjeeling District Should we accept Anderson Glashan Bidirectional Transfer in SLA studies? Sarat Kumar Doley 02.50-03.10 space in Assamese Relative Clause in TinkarLo Language and the (Un) making of Issues in making dictionary: Rajamathangi S the Nation: Sri Lankan Identity in A case study of Liangmai Leena Dihingia Carl Muller’s The Jam Fruit Tree Widinibou Charengna Priyankoo Sarmah and Aubrey Collette’s Editorial Wichamdinbo Mataina Cartoons Meenu Chaudhary 03.10-03.30 Status of Stop in DSM and DOM Phenomena in Ghatu : The Language of the The impact of Roman script Mymenshingia Assamese Gods for communication on Shaima Fahmida Manmee Bhattacharjya Karan Gurung Social Networking sites: A Rashmika case study of in Bijit Bollov Borthakur Murchana Borah 03.30-03.45 Tea Break 03.45-04.25 Session III Venue: Department of EFL, HSS Building Morphology Phonetics and Phonology Sociolinguistics Morphosyntax Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be Chair: Ritesh Kumar Chair: Hemanga Dutta Chair: Niladri Sekhar Dash announced) Chair: Pritha Chandra 03.45-04.05 Affix Suspension in Tibeto-Burman Role of lingual configuration Changing Language Forms for Adjective in Meiteiron Languages on the production of coronal Maximum Communicability: A (Manipuri) Tikaram Poudel stops in Nepali Case of Assamese-English Code- Pramodini Devi Rajesh Khatiwada mixing in Digital Space Nameirakpam Arundhati Mahanta Om Prakash 04.05-04-25 Reduplication as a Word Formation Nasalization, Pre-nasalization Code mixing in Gender and gender Phenomenon in Bodo and other morpho-phonemic spoken in Gangtok town agreement in Darjeelinge Aleendra Brahma processes in Gaddi Mishra Nepali Anusuya Nayak Nirmal Niroula

04.30-05.30 Plenary Talk: K.V.Subbarao “Noun Modification in Tibeto-Burman Languages” Venue: Room No 11, G-Block, HSS building

09.30-10.50 Day II Session IV Venue: Department of EFL, HSS Building Syntax Phonology Semantics Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be Chair: Pritha Chandra Chair: Priyankoo Sarma Chair: George van Driem announced) Chair: Gautam K. Borah 09.30-09.50 A Study on the Clause Structure in Lamkang Phonology The expression of placement and Associative Plural marker in Phong Sumshot Khular removal events in Nepali Rajbanshi: A case of Niharika Dutta Shobhana Chelliah Krishna Parajuli classifier, affix or Anetta Kopecka construction? Hari Madhab Ray 09.50-10-10 Long Distance Binding and Opacity in English Loans and Nepali Analysis of ‘eat’ expressions in Class terms in Tai Khamyang Assamese Phonology: An OT account Bangla using image-schema and Anujeema Diganta Kumar Nath Hemanga Dutta metaphors and comparing productivity of these expressions On the Absence of the in standard and colloquial Bangla numerals in the definite Tanima Bagchi singular classifier phrase Rajesh Kumar Gautam K. Borah 10.10-10.30 Case Marker in Thulung Coda-less final in Noun Incorporation in Manipuri- A study of Classifiers in Suman Rai Gaddi : a non - indo-aryan A Semantic Extension Assamese and Rabha feature Dhanapati Shougrakpam Samhita B Sakshi Kalra 10.30-10.50 Nominalization in Chungli Ao Structure of Totok A Study on Some Selective Numeral Classifiers in Naroti Jamir Chingkho Complex Predicates in Bangla Nepali Anisha Sinha Nivedita Mitra Krishna Maya Manger Mouparna Sen

10.50-11.00 Tea break

11.00-11.30 Poster Presentation Session I Venue: HSS Building Lounge (Ground floor) P1-01 Pooja Saikia Characterization of the Assamese language on the basis of Chierchia’s nominal mapping parameter

P1-02 Mayashree Mahanta Ambiguity in Assamese Language: An Analysis

P1-03 Krishna Hazarika The Particle "" in Assamese

P1-04 Anjali Nair and Yangchen Roy Phonological Distribution of Markers

P1-05 Bijayanti Haobam Roots and Affixes in Somdal (a of Tangkhul)

P1-06 Bediskiva Nath Reduplication in Assamese P1-07 Dhrubajyoti Doley Noun Formation of the of the Tani group

P1-08 Bandita Saikia A lexical comparison of Standard Assamese and Barpetia variety of Assamese

P1-09 Elangbam Manimohon Meitei The Negative Construction in Mao

P1-10 Rujab Muchahary Word Formation in Bodo

P1-11 Pemlhamu Tamang Phi-feature in Tamang

P-12 Murchana Lopamudra Language Loss: A sociolinguistic survey of the loss of Assamese Traditional Knowledge System

11.20 Group Photo Session Venue: HSS Building Lounge (Ground floor) 11.30-01.10 Session V Venue: Department of EFL, HSS Building Syntax Ethnolinguistics Folklore and Culture Linguistics Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Chair: Madhumita Barbora Chair: Pramodini Nameirakpam Chair: Sunil Kumar Dutta Chair: KV Subbarao 11.30-11.50 Language Mixing in Assamese Biate: An ethnolinguistic study Of Being in : Reconstructing a 2nd person mirative DPs: An Exoskeletal Approach Rajuram Boro Assimilation and Beyond construction for Central Himalayan – Baruah Daimalu Brahma Maitrayee Patar and beyond? Monali Longmailai Marie-Caroline Pons 11.50-12-10 Tag Questions in Manipuri The Structure of Kinship words Transitivity Analysis of A Contrastive Study of Some And German in Patriarchy and Matrilineal Contemporary Legends of Linguistic Features of Two Varieties Niranjana Thokchom Societies (Special reference to Assam of Bangla Ch. Yashawanta Singh Assamese, Garo and Khasi Arunima Das Gargi Roy, Rajesh Kumar languages) Biswajit Das 12.10-12.30 A brief discussion on the Re-carved Histories and Local “Burhi Aair Xadhu” and the Nouns in Sukte : A Preliminary Compound verb Realities: A Study of the Role of Politics of Writing the Folk Investigation constructions in the Science as Discourse in Shaping Archana Deka Arambam Sadananda Assamese Language a Tai-Ahom Identity Sushanta Rajkhowa Kabita Chiring 12.30-12.50 Predicate constructions in An Ethnolinguistic Study of Some aspects of Folkoristics in Phonological pattern of sound Bulu Puroik Personal Names in Khelma Dimasa change in Barpetiya Assamese Ismael Lieberherr Pushpa Bhattacharyya Monali Longmailai Dulumani Das Barshapriya Dutta Murchana Lopamudra

12.50-01.10 Scrambling in Tinkar-Lo The Traditional Cultural Heritage Kinship Terms of Hunphun- Causatives in Mara Bimrisha Mali of the in North Tangkhul Meenakshi Chaudhary East India Yatmi Luikham Charengna Widinibou

01.10-02.30 Lunch Break

02.30-03.30 Session VI Venue: Department of EFL, HSS Building Sociolinguistics Language Endangerment Language Technology Typology Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be Chair: Bornini Lahiri Chair: Kavita Rastogi Chair: Utpal Sharma announced) Chair: Tikaram Poudel 02.30-02.50 Conversational code switching: A Language Endangerment and Extraction and processing of web Typological profile of case study on Bodo Language Vitality in the news data to create a structured Kanashi: Some preliminary Jupitara Boro Darjeeling- corpus observations Samar Sinha Arpita Chakraborty Anju Saxena Niladri Sekhar Dash Anna Sjöberg 02.50-03-10 Kinship Terms in Khelma Documentation and Decomposing Bangla Verbs as Dirang Monpa and Tshangla Barshapriya Dutta Preservation of the Languages Decontextualized Autonomous - A Phonological and Lexical Pushpa Renu Bhattacharyya of the Primitive Tribe Groups Lexical Units for Multi-Domain Comparative Study (PGT): A Study of the Birhor Applications Ankita Karmakar Language of Jharkhand Niladri Sekhar Dash Uttam Kr Pegu Saket Bhardwaj 03.10-03.30 Sonowal Kachari: A Tai-Khamyang perspective Preparation of Digital Lexical Lexical Comparison of South A case study of language loss in towards language Database from a Multi-Domain Munda Languages Assam maintenance" Sylheti Speech Corpus Srikanth Kumar D Jenny Merry Daimari Nawaf Zahdaan Helmi Amalesh Gope Trisha Borgohain Rijumoni Rajput Kabita Kumari

03.30-03.45 Tea break

03.45-05.05 Session VII Venue: Department of EFL, HSS Building Applied Linguistics Syntax Language Technology Negation Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be Chair: Niladri Sekhar Dash Chair: Samar Sinha Chair: Amalesh Gope announced) Chair: Tanmoy Bhattacharya 03.45-04.05 Teaching Communicative Assamese The structure of Koch-Rajbangshi Developing language Negation in Biate and Validation of Linguistic and as an SOV language resources for Bodo M Hemminlal Haokip Communicative Oral Language Tests: Surajit Ray Ritesh Kumar A few Anecdotes Narayan Gahatraj Juri Dutta 04.05-04.25 Language skills as critical factor for Complementation Strategies in Ontological Representation of Negation in Maram regional guides: Rural tourism sites Tinker Amri-Karbi and Rabha Amarnath Pathak of Himalayan valley of North East Payal Khullar Silpi Shikha Barkakati India. Himashree Baruah Mridul Dutta 04.25-04.45 Language Loss in Assamese Aphasics Differential Object Marking in Interface Enabled Multilingual Negation: with especial Deepa Boruah Nepali Information Retrieval Using reference to Karbi Shrijana Chhetri Structured Thesaurus Database Manik Rongpi Dibyajyoti Sarmah Shikhar Kr. Sarma 04.45-05.05 Analysis of the morphosyntax of Adjectives in Nepali Generation of Training Lexical Negation in Chungli (Ao) causative verb in Assamese and its Sourabh Chetry Data Set in a Semi-Supervised Temsunungsang T. implication in computational Manner for Automatic Bangla Temsunungsang morphology Medical Text Identification Palash Das Ankita Dhar Madhumita Barbora Utpal Sharma Kaushik Roy

06.30-07.45 Cultural Evening Venue: KBR Auditorium

08.00-09.00 Vice-Chancellor’s dinner (Guest House)

09.30-10.50 Day III Session VII Venue: Department of EFL, HSS Building Language Politics and and Intonation Morphosyntax Negation/Typology Gender Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Chair: Rajesh Khatiwada Chair: Diganta Nath Chair: Ismael Leiberhr Chair: Debarshi Prasad Nath 09.30-09.50 and Politics Behaviour of tone in Verb-pronominal Agreement and Negative Construction in Rejina Marandi different morphological structures /ə/~/ɑ/ Alternation in Mara Hruso-Aka in Mizo Jyoti Sharma Sansuma Brahma Wendy Lalhminghlui Madhumita Barbora Phunuma Mazumdar Priyankoo Sarmah Tone documentation: Tone Miyah Poetry: Arrival of a A case study on negative periodic table, a new method to Possession in 09.50-10.10 Speech markers in Sizang know tone Samir Debbarma Jyotirmoy Talukdar Bobita Sarangthem Sahiinii Lemaina Veikho Acquisition of Mandarin Tone by Noun Phrase and its Constituent The politics of language and Non-Native Adult Speakers Order in Inpui Negative constructions in Nocte 10.10-10.30 ethnicity in North East India Amalesh Gope Laishram Bijenkumar Singh Syed Iftiqar Rahman Dipak Sarma Prangshu Manjul Waikhom Pinky Devi Sexism and Gender Inequality Intonational phonology of various Towards the existence of future Typology of 10.30-10.50 in Tai question types in Standard tense in Meeteilon (Manipuri) Liangmai Khammoun Phukan Colloquial Assamese Sanatombi Devi D. Mary Kim Haokip Arup Nath Asim Twaha

10.50-11.00 Tea break

11.00-11.30 Poster Presentation Session II Venue: HSS Building Lounge (Ground floor) P2-1 Hemlata Thapa Phi-feature in Magar P2-2 Bhim Kumar Sharma Sentential and constituent negations in Nepali P2-3 Bishnu Bhujel in Sikkim and Darjeeling: A language attitude study P2-4 Trisha Borgohain Case Marking in Tai-Khamti P2-5 Guddu Prasad Basumatary Naming system in Bodo: a linguistic study P2-6 Manokh Hazarika Part of Speech tagging: Issues and Challenges: with special reference to Tai Turung P2-7 Kakali Talukdar and Sushanta Rajkhowa A brief discussion on the quantification system in the Assamese Language

P2-8 Kabita Borah and Gitanjali Chetry An Acoustic analysis of Kokborok Tone

P2-9 Bloomee Nominalization in Assamese: a cognitive approach

P2-10 Bipasha Patgiri and Arup Kumar Nath Onomastics of some tribal languages with special reference to Tai-Phake

P2-11 Reena Rai Adposition in Kulung

11.30-01.10 Session IX Venue: Department of EFL, HSS Building Morphology Typology Morphosyntax General Linguistics Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Chair: Dorte Borcher Chair: Marry Haokip Chair: KV Subbarao Chair: Dan Regmi 11.30-11.50 Anti-allophony or Anti- Discourse Continuity in Magar Contraction and deletion in The Semantics and Grammar of homophony: Balancing the Kaike and Bhujel: A Functional- interrogative markers in Modality in Assamese morphological paradigm Typological Perspective Kakching Dialect Jahnabi Neog, Akansha Baruah Paroma Sanyal Dan Regmi Naorem Brindebala Devi Kangkana Pathak, Kakali Talukdar Ambika Regmi Ch Yashawanta Singh 11.50-12-10 Incorporating Classifier A Descriptive Analysis of Tense Grammatical Relations: S, A and Sounds and Syllables of Tai-Turung Predicates: Typological and Aspect in Sadri P marking in Koro Prashanta Hazarika Perspective on Incorporated Albin Rico Xalxo Nupur Sinha Manokh Hazarika Classifiers and Related Phenomenon of Sign Language Morphology Michael Morgan 12.10-12.30 Word Formation in Sukte: A Indo-Aryan root meets Tibeto- Nominal Structure of Poula A brief discussion on verbal morphology Preliminary Investigation. Burman Suffix in Dhimal H. Dune Antonia Pao in Tai Turung Arambam Sadananda Bornini Lahiri Rima Saikia Bijayanti Devi Haobam Rhituraj Gogoi 12.30-12.50 Nature and Types of A Grammatical Sketch of Verbal Compounding in Bodo Conjunct Verb as marker of bilingualism Compound Words in Bangla Hrangkhol Daimalu Brahma in the Tinkar society Sucharita Chakraborty Banashree Das Debmalya Biswas Soumi Bannerji Rhituraj Gogoi 12.50-01.10 Functions of -ma markers in Specifiers in Mara A Morphological Analysis based The Size and composition of Bori Adi Language Anna Merin Mathew on Kinship terms in Koch Productive Vocabulary Rejhoney Borang Language Ruchi Sehgal Lisa Lomdak Rehamat Shaikh

01.10-02.30 Lunch Break

02.30-03.50 Session X Venue: Department of EFL, HSS Building Prosodic Phonology Script, Typography, Identity General Linguistics General Linguistics Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be Chair: Priyankoo Sarmah Chair: Michael Morgan Chair: Paroma Sanyal announced) Chair: Manmee Bhattacharya 02.30-02.50 Finding Prosodic domain of Wh in Liangmai Orthography: A Applicatives in Bodo Towards Proto-Sartang and its situ in proposal Raju Ram Boro place in Tibeto-Burman/Trans- Bharat Kumar Wichamdinbo Mataina Himalayan Gregory D. S. Anderson Bikram Jora 02.50-03.10 Dichotic test among tonal and non- Letter-sound correspondences Gaddi case Verbal Substitution in tonal speakers in Bodo Yangchen Roy Manipuri Viyazonuo Terhiija Prafulla Basumatary Huiningshumbam Surchandra

03.10-03.30 Rising pitch in declarative sentences The Dual Linguistic Identities of Syntax of Negation in Gaddi Verb serialisation in Duhumbi in Nepali: A Semantic Approach Misings in Assam" Vyom Sharma Tim Bodt Sandhaya Upadhaya Gayatri Das Bipasha Patgiri 03.30-03.50 Acoustic Analysis of Rajbongshi The Event Schemas of the Using Linguistic Survey of India Material World:with reference to to showcase the typology of Nibedita Rajbongshi Axomiya argument marking Tibeto- Bristi Saikia Burman Languages of Amos Teo 04.00-04.30 Valedictory Session