NEILS 2012 Provisional Schedule

Workshops Date Tuesday, January 31 Wednesday, February 1 Session WS1a WS3a

Workshop on Language Documentation Workshop on Language Documentation 9:00-10:30 Stephen Morey and Lauren Gawne Stephen Morey and Lauren Gawne

10:30-11:00 Tea Tea Session WS1b WS3b

Workshop on Language Documentation Workshop on Language Documentation 11:00-12:30 Stephen Morey and Lauren Gawne Stephen Morey and Lauren Gawne

12:30-1:30 Lunch Lunch Session WS2a WS4a

Workshop on Language Documentation Workshop on Language Documentation 1:30-3:00 Stephen Morey and Lauren Gawne Stephen Morey and Lauren Gawne

3:00-3:30 Tea Tea Session WS2b WS4b

Workshop on Language Documentation Workshop on Language Documentation 3:30-5:00 Stephen Morey and Lauren Gawne Stephen Morey and Lauren Gawne

Conference Day 1

Date → Thursday, February 2 Time ↓ 8:30-9:30 Registration Opening Addresses, 9:30-10:30 Logistical Announcements, NEIL4 Book Launch 10:30-11:00 Tea Pragmatics, semantics and case Semantics and metaphor Session 1 Chair: Shobhana Chelliah Chair: Anita Tamuli An approach of Gricean particularized Sumi semantic and pragmatic markers: implicature: The Inao use of figure of 11:00-11:30 A case of ye and no speech Amos Teo Surjit Lourembam Clause dependency and the “assertive Conceptual metaphors for LOVE in 11:30-12:00 system” of War Assamese Anne Daladier Nivedita Saikia A comparative study of the Mongsen Manipuri psycho-collocations 12:00-12:30 and Meithei core case marking systems Surmangol Sharma Atu Longkumer 12:30-1:30 Lunch Mind over morphosyntax Eastern Indo-Aryan phonology Session 2 Chair: Gwendolyn Hyslop Chair: Ichchha Purna Rai The Conjunct/disjunct system in two Synchronic changes in Assamese: Tibeto-Burman languages: Lamjung Some preliminary observations 1:30-2:00 Yolmo and Sherpa Kailash Sarma Lauren Gawne and Barb Kelly and aspect in the copular Dorsal fricatives of Assamese 2:00-2:30 verbs of Khengkha Mukul Sarma Keren Baker Northeast Indian-Southeast Asian Spirantization in Tibeto-Burman- 2:30-3:00 connections: The case of ‘give’ Bengali bilinguals in south of Mathias Jenny Kakoli Dey 3:00-3:30 Tea New descriptions Comparative phonology Session 3 Chair: Nathan Statezni Chair: Tom Owen-Smith A brief phonological description of Phonemes in Asamiya and Bangla: A Biate comparative study 3:30-4:00 Lalremzami Chinzah and Paramita Purkait Vanlalenglian Phonology of Khoibu Comparative segmental differences in 4:00-4:30 Laishram Bijenkumar Singh two dialects of Assamese and Bangla Atanu Saha and Bipasha Patgiri Phonology of Syriem: An Some notes on phonological properties undocumented Kuki-Chin language of of the languages 4:30-5:00 Barak valley of Ashangbam Samani Devi and Tobias Weber Pauthang Haokip

Conference Day 2 Date → Friday, February 3 Time ↓ Location Room A Room B Tibeto-Burman grammar 1 North East Indian phonologies Session 4 Chair: Ch. Yashawanta Singh Chair: Surmangol Sharma Predicting reference form: Manipuri phonotactics: A study of clusters 9:00-9:30 A Pear Story study of Meitei and Shobhana Chelliah L. Sarbajit Singh Morphology of Liangmai Phonological system of Inpui 9:30-10:00 Guichamlung Daimai Waikhom Pinky Devi Agreement in Vaiphei Phonemes in Liangmai 10:00-10:30 George Bedell and Khawlsonkim Ragui Daimai Suantak 10:30-11:00 Tea Contact, convergence and change 1 Indo-Aryan grammar 1 Session 5 Chair: Mathias Jenny Chair: Razaul Faquire Phonological changes in the Hindi The teaching of initial literacy in Assamese loanwords of Contact Hindi in Anita Tamuli 11:00-11:30 Shillong Maansi Sharma Linguistic shrinkage in Lepcha: Syntax and semantics of sub-ordinate 11:30-12:00 Traces of language contact clauses in Assamese Satarupa Dattamajumdar Bipasha Patgiri Postcolonial indigenous languages Postpositions in Asamiya 12:00-12:30 and cultural change in Bangladesh Runima Chowdhary Sikder Monoare Murshed 12:30-1:30 Lunch Session 6 Business Meeting Location Room A Publication plans, announcements, etc. 1:30-2:00 Note: Attendance is obligatory if you hope to publish your paper with us!! Dialectology Contact, convergence and change 2 Session 7 Chair: Paul Sidwell Chair: Jyotiprakash Tamuli Dialect variation and intelligibility On the common question particle ni , shared perceptions among the Tangshang by Garo and the Sylheti variety of Bangla in 2:00-2:30 Naga in terms of language contact Nathan Statezni Razaul Faquire “All the same but something different”: Contact-induced changes in Baram 2:30-3:00 ISO language codes and language Dubi Nanda Dhakal diversity – the case of Tangsa Stephen D. Morey The variety of Assamese and Tiwa spoken A selection of uncontroversial topics in Morigaon: A comparative study of their 3:00-3:30 in Mizo syntax mutual influences. Lalnunthangi Chhangte Diganta Nath and Manoj Kumar Das Teatime discussion, facilitated by Shobhana Chelliah, Lalnunthangi Chhangte and Stephen Morey: How can linguists fulfil our responsibilities to our employers, to 3:30-5:00 our field, and to the language communities we work with - and survive? North East Indian perspectives

Conference Day 3 Date → Saturday, February 4 Time ↓ Room A Room B Tibeto-Burman Negation Category studies Session 8 Chair: George Bedell Chair: Madhumita Barbora Numeral systems in Bugun, Deori and Negation in Rongmei Naga Nocte 9:00-9:30 Debajit Deb Madhumita B. Barbora, Prathana Acharya and Sumita Saha Negation in Thadou Numerals in Kharam 9:30-10:00 Pauthang Haokip Kh. Dhiren Singha & Kh. Dutta Singh Negation in Manipuri in Dimasa 10:00-10:30 N. Pramodini Kh. Dhiren Singha 10:30-11:00 Tea Indo-Aryan grammar 2 Language and proto-history Session 9 Chair: Runima Chowdhary Chair: Tobias Weber Passive constructions in Assam Sadri Proto-Khasian and Khasi-Palaungic 11:00-11:30 Lucky Dey Paul Sidwell Interrogative sentences in Assamese, On reconstruction and borrowing in the 11:30-12:00 Bengali and Hindi: A comparative study East Nibedita Sarma Gwendolyn Hyslop Assamese vector verbs: Polysemy in The typological position(s) of the context languages of Northeast India, and 12:00-12:30 Jyotiprakash Tamuli implications for social history Mark Donohue, Virginia Dawson and Keren Baker 12:30-1:30 Lunch Tone and intonation Tibeto-Burman grammar 2 Session 10 Chair: Stephen Morey Chair: U. V. Joseph An acoustic study of Boro tones Coordination in Manipuri 1:30-2:00 Priyankoo Sarmah and Aleendra Brahma S. Indrakumar Singh and Ch. Yashawanta Singh An acoustic and statistical analysis of Verbal inflections in Karbi tones and the mysterious ‘mid’ Shyamal Das and Uttam Chakraborty 2:00-2:30 tone Linda Konnerth and Amos Teo The phonology of focus in two varieties Verbal affixes in Dimasa of Assamese David Bathari 2:30-3:00 Shakuntala Mahanta and Asimul Islam Twaha 3:00-3:30 Tea From lexicon to syntax Classifiers Session 11 Chair: Lalnunthangi Chhangte Chair: N. Pramodini Pervasive parallelism in binomials Discourse functions of classifiers in (): A case study in Chintang ritual Karbi: Some observations 3:30-4:00 language Gautam K. Borah and Raujiline Akhtar Ichchha Purna Rai Role of word morphology in relation to Shape-oriented Classifiers in the Kamrupi 4:00-4:30 syntax: Tai-Khamti dialect of Assamese Bishakha Das Manmee Bhattacharjya

Thanks very much for coming. See you next time!